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Anti-Semitism in New Zealand

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Anti-Semitism in New Zealand

Jews in New Zealand have sometimes been the victims of prejudice, but generally not of virulent anti-Semitism or severe discrimination or persecution. New Zealand Jews are, however, vigilant in opposing any hint of anti-Semitism in the country. When this anti-Semitic publication, Caution: Zionism, surfaced at an international trade fair held in Wellington in 1971, an angered Jewish community quickly mounted a protest.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1971/4184

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Stephen Levine, Jews – Zionism in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1252/anti-semitism-in-new-zealand (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Stephen Levine, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.