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		<title>French riots follow decades-old pattern of rage, with no resolution in sight</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[ANALYSIS: By François Dubet, Université de Bordeaux Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since protests broke out in the eastern suburbs of Lyon in 1981, an episode known as the “summer of Minguettes”: a young person is killed or seriously injured by the police, ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> By <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/francois-dubet-200012" rel="nofollow">François Dubet</a>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/universite-de-bordeaux-2198" rel="nofollow">Université de Bordeaux</a></em></p>
<p>Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since protests broke out in the eastern suburbs of Lyon in 1981, an episode known as the <a href="https://metropolitics.org/The-March-for-Equality-and-Against.html" rel="nofollow">“summer of Minguettes”</a>: a young person is killed or seriously injured by the police, triggering an outpouring of violence in the affected neighbourhood and nearby.</p>
<p>Sometimes, as in the case of the 2005 riots and of this past week’s, it is every rough neighbourhood that flares up.</p>
<p>Throughout the past 40 years in France, urban revolts have been dominated by the rage of young people who attack the symbols of order and the state: town halls, social centres, schools, and shops.</p>
<p><strong>An institutional and political vacuum<br /></strong> That rage is the kind that leads one to destroy one’s own neighbourhood, for all to see.</p>
<p>Residents condemn these acts, but can also understand the motivation. Elected representatives, associations, churches and mosques, social workers and teachers admit their powerlessness, revealing an institutional and political vacuum.</p>
<p>Of all the revolts, the summer of the Minguettes was the only one to pave the way to a social movement: the <a href="https://metropolitics.org/The-March-for-Equality-and-Against.html" rel="nofollow">March for Equality and Against Racism</a> in December 1983.</p>
<p>Numbering more than 100,000 people and prominently covered by the media, it was France’s first demonstration of its kind. Left-leaning newspaper <em>Libération</em> nicknamed it “La Marche des Beurs”, a colloquial term that refers to Europeans whose parents or grandparents are from the Maghreb.</p>
<p>In the demonstrations that followed, no similar movement appears to have emerged from the ashes.</p>
<p>At each riot, <a href="https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-brief-politique/mort-de-nahel-la-choregraphie-tres-classique-des-reactions-politiques_5888596.html" rel="nofollow">politicians are quick to play well-worn roles</a>: the right denounces the violence and goes on to stigmatise neighbourhoods and police victims; the left denounces injustice and promises social policies in the neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>In 2005, then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy <a href="https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/emeutes-urbaines-quatre-questions-sur-le-precedent-de-2005-qui-est-dans-toutes-les-tetes-8489821" rel="nofollow">sided with the police</a>. France’s current President, Emmanuel Macron, has expressed <a href="https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/06/28/jeune-tue-a-nanterre-rien-ne-justifie-la-mort-dun-jeune-declare-emmanuel-macron-11306938.php" rel="nofollow">compassion</a> for the teenager killed by the police in Nanterre, but politicians and presidents are hardly heard in the neighbourhoods concerned.</p>
<p>We then wait for silence to set in until the next time the problems of the <em>banlieues</em> (French suburbs) and its police are rediscovered by society at large.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This is what started the French Riots!</p>
<p>Police eventually shoot the driver who is a 17 year old Algerian <a href="https://t.co/eShWGHEfHC" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/eShWGHEfHC</a></p>
<p>— Redneck Azn (@LMFireSystems1) <a href="https://twitter.com/LMFireSystems1/status/1674232984294105089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">June 29, 2023</a></p>
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<p><strong>Lessons to be learned<br /></strong> The recurrence of urban riots in France and their scenarios yield some relatively simple lessons.</p>
<p>First, the country’s urban policies miss their targets. Over the last 40 years, considerable efforts have been made to <a href="https://www.capital.fr/immobilier/emeute-les-vraies-raisons-de-lechec-de-politique-de-la-ville-1473031" rel="nofollow">improve housing and facilities</a>. Apartments are of better quality, there are social centres, schools, colleges and public transportation.</p>
<p>It would be wrong to say that these neighbourhoods have been abandoned.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the social and cultural diversity of disadvantaged suburbs has deteriorated. More often than not, the residents are poor or financially insecure, and are either descendants of immigrants or immigrants themselves.</p>
<p>Above all, when given the opportunity and the resources, those who can leave the <em>banlieues</em> soon do, only to be replaced by even poorer residents from further afield. Thus while the built environment is improving, the social environment is unravelling.</p>
<p>However reluctant people may be to talk about France’s disadvantaged neighbourhoods, the social process at work here is indeed one of <a href="https://www.cairn.info/revue-economique-2016-3-page-415.htm" rel="nofollow">ghettoisation</a> – i.e., a growing divide between neighbourhoods and their environment, a self-containment reinforced from within. You go to the same school, the same social centre, you socialise with the same individuals, and you participate in the same more or less legal economy.</p>
<p>In spite of the cash and local representatives’ goodwill, people still feel excluded from society because of their origins, culture or religion. In spite of social policies and councillors’ work, the neighbourhoods have no institutional or political resources of their own.</p>
<p>Whereas the often communist-led <a href="http://e-cours.univ-paris1.fr/modules/uoh/paris-banlieues/u4/co/-module_1.html" rel="nofollow">“banlieues rouges”</a> (“red suburbs”) benefited from the strong support of left-leaning political parties, trade unions and popular education movements, today’s banlieues hardly have any spokespeople. Social workers and teachers are full of goodwill, but many don’t live in the neighbourhoods where they work.</p>
<p>This disconnect works both ways, and the past days’ riots revealed that elected representatives and associations don’t have any hold on neighbourhoods where residents feel ignored and abandoned. Appeals for calm are going unheeded. The rift is not just social, it’s also political.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">#France</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AFP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">#AFP</a><br />Police arrest 1,000 in French riots ahead of teen’s funeral. <a href="https://t.co/p24dtYtkUu" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/p24dtYtkUu</a></p>
<p>— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFPphoto/status/1675092167616765952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow">July 1, 2023</a></p>
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<p><strong>A constant face-off<br /></strong> With this in mind, we are increasingly seeing <a href="https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/nanterre-on-assiste-depuis-une-trentaine-d-annees-a-ce-face-a-face-entre-la-police-et-une-ultra-minorite-de-jeunes-qui-abiment-nos-quartiers-deplore-mokrane-kessi-france-des-banlieues_VN-202306290630.html" rel="nofollow">young people face off with the police</a>. The two groups function like “gangs”, complete with their own hatreds and territories.</p>
<p>In this landscape, the state is reduced to legal violence and young people to their actual or potential delinquency.</p>
<p>The police are judged to be “mechanically” racist on the grounds that any young person is <em>a priori</em> a suspect. Young people feel hatred for the police, fuelling further police racism and youth violence.</p>
<p>Older residents would like to see more police officers to uphold order, but also support their own children and the frustrations and anger they feel.</p>
<p>This “war” is usually played out at a low level. When a young person dies, however, everything explodes and it’s back to the drawing board until the next uprising, which will surprise us just as much as the previous ones.</p>
<p>But there is something new in this tragic repetition. The first element is the rise of the far right — and not just on that side of the political spectrum. Racist accounts of the uprisings are taking hold, one that speaks of “barbarians” and <a href="https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/jordan-bardella-si-monsieur-darmanin-veut-lutter-contre-l-islamisme-alors-il-faut-maitriser-l-immigration_VN-202306280290.html" rel="nofollow">immigration</a>, and there’s fear that this could lead to success at the ballot box.</p>
<p>The second is the political and intellectual paralysis of the political left. While it denounces injustice and sometimes supports the riots, it does not appear to have put forward any political solution other than police reform.</p>
<p>So long as the process of ghettoisation continues, as France’s young people and security forces face off time and time again, it is hard to see how the next police blunder and the riots that follow won’t be just around the corner.<img decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/208968/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1"/></p>
<p><em>Dr <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/francois-dubet-200012" rel="nofollow">François Dubet</a>, professeur des universités émérite, <em><a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/universite-de-bordeaux-2198" rel="nofollow">Université de Bordeaux. </a></em>This article is republished from <a href="https://theconversation.com" rel="nofollow">The Conversation</a> under a Creative Commons licence. Read the <a href="https://theconversation.com/french-riots-follow-decades-old-pattern-of-rage-with-no-resolution-in-sight-208968" rel="nofollow">original article</a>.</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[ANALYSIS: By Khairiah A. Rahman “On the ground, there is a sense of disquiet and distrust of the organisers’ motivations for the hui, as some Muslim participants directly connected to the Christchurch tragedy were not invited.” — Khairiah A. Rahman The two-day Aotearoa New Zealand government He Whenua Taurikura Hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>ANALYSIS:</strong> <em>By Khairiah A. Rahman</em></p>
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<p>“On the ground, there is a sense of disquiet and distrust of the organisers’ motivations for the hui, as some Muslim participants directly connected to the Christchurch tragedy were not invited.”</p>
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<p class="c2">— Khairiah A. Rahman</p>
<p>The two-day Aotearoa New Zealand government He Whenua Taurikura Hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism this week saw participation of state agencies, NGOs, civil rights groups and minority representations from across the country.</p>
<p>Yet media reportage of deeply concerning issues that have marginalised and targeted minorities was severely limited on the grounds of media’s potential “inability to protect sensitive information”.</p>
<p>Lest we forget, the purpose of the Hui is a direct outcome of the Royal Commission recommendations following the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings" rel="nofollow">2019 Christchurch mosque attacks</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://asiapacificreport.nz/2021/06/20/mediawatch-hui-over-christchurch-terror-attacks-puts-media-under-the-spotlight/" rel="nofollow">first hui last year had a media panel</a> where Islamophobia in New Zealand and global media was addressed, and local legacy media reiterated their pact to report from a responsible perspective.</p>
<p>A year later, it would be good to hear what local media have done to ask the hard questions — where are we now in terms of healing for the Muslim communities? What is the situation with crime against Muslims across the country? What projects are ongoing to build social cohesion for a peaceful Aotearoa?</p>
<p>This year, the organisers decided to have the Hui address “all-of-society approaches” to countering violent extremism. This means removing the focus on issues faced by Muslims and extending this to concerns of other minorities subjected to abuse and hate-motivated attacks.</p>
<p>While Muslim participants embraced sharing the space with disenfranchised communities, many reflected that this should not detract from a follow-up to issues discussed at the last hui.</p>
<p>A media panel should address the role of media in representing the voiceless communities. In addition to media following up on Islamophobia, how has media represented minority groups based on their ethnicity, faith or sexual orientation? How can media play a direct role in truth-telling that would inspire social cohesion?</p>
<p>A participant of the LGBTQ+ community shared how bisexual members were threatened on social media as a result of local and international media’s reportage of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/01/amber-heard-johnny-depp-trial-metoo-backlash" rel="nofollow">Amber Heard misogyny case</a> in the US and the negative representation of bisexual people.</p>
<p>As a social conduit for communal voices and public opinion, the media have a significant role in countering terrorism and violent extremism and should not be excluded from the difficult conversations. Legacy, ethnic and diversity media must be included in all future hui, regardless of topics.</p>
<p>Confidential information can be struck from the record if necessary, but often this is hardly shared in a public forum.</p>
<p>There is little point having a Hui where critical national issues of safety and security are discussed across affected communities, if they are just noise in an echo chamber for those affected while people that care outside of this room are unaware.</p>
<p><strong>Six takeaways from the Hui<br /></strong> Discussions centred on what community groups have been doing on the ground and what the larger society and government must do to counter radicalisation and terrorism.</p>
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<li><em>Victims’ families call for a Unity Week</em></li>
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<p>Hamimah Ahmat, widow of Zekeriya Tuyan who was killed in the terror attack, and who is chair of the Sakinah Trust, called on the government to observe an official Unity Week for the country to remember the 51 lives lost in Christchurch.</p>
<p>“More than funds — we need to make sure that the nation ring fences their time for reflection and their commitment to that [social cohesion].”</p>
<p>Sakinah Trust, formed by women relatives of the victims, organised Unity Week where Cantabrians participated in social activities and shared social media messages on “unity” to commemorate the lives lost and build a sense of togetherness across diverse communities.</p>
<p>This bonding exercise connected more than 310,000 New Zealanders and initiated 25,000 social media engagements. Hamimah emphasised the importance of this as during the pandemic Chinese migrants had suffered racism and hate rhetoric.</p>
<p>“We need a National Unity Week not just because of March 15 but because it is an essential element for our existence and the survival of our next generation — a generation who feels they belong and are empowered to advocate for each other,” she said.</p>
<p>“And this is how you honour all those beautiful souls and beautiful lives that we have lost through racism, extremism and everything that is evil.”</p>
<p><em>2. Issues and disappointment</em></p>
<p>Members of the IWCNZ (Islamic Council of Women in New Zealand) and other ethnic minority groups have repeatedly shared their disappointment that some speakers appeared to equate the terrorist mass murder in the two Christchurch mosques to the LynnMall attack in Auckland. Yet, the difference is stark.</p>
<p>One terrorist was killed and the other was apprehended unharmed. One had a history of trauma and mental instability, and police knew of this but failed to intervene.</p>
<p>The other was a white supremacist radical who had easy access to a semi-automatic weapon. While both could have been prevented, the LynnMall violent extremism was within the authority’s immediate control.</p>
<p>Aliya Danzeisen, a founding member of <a href="https://iwcnz.org.nz/" rel="nofollow">Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand</a> (IWCNZ), said it was offensive that there was an inappropriate focus on the Muslim community in discourse on the LynnMall attack as there was failed deradicalization by the government corrections department.</p>
<p>“We find it offensive as a community because it was a failed government action, not getting in front, again, that someone was shot and killed and seven people were stabbed.”</p>
<p>Danzeisen also reported that despite sitting in the corrections forum for community, she was unaware of any change since the Royal Commission in terms of addressing radicalisation.</p>
<p>On the ground, there is a sense of disquiet and distrust of the organisers’ motivations for the hui, as some Muslim participants directly connected to the Christchurch tragedy were not invited.</p>
<p>Murray Stirling, treasurer of An Noor Mosque, and Anthony Green, a spokesperson for the Christchurch victims, were present at last year’s Hui but did not receive invitations this year.</p>
<p><em>3. Academic input from Te Tiriti perspectives</em></p>
<p>The opening of the conference was led by research from a Te Tiriti perspective. The Muslim community had called for a Te Tiriti involvement in the Hui to acknowledge the first marginalised people of the land.</p>
<p>One shared feature of all the discussions related to colonialism. Tina Ngata, environmental, indigenous and human rights activist, called out those in power who passively protect and maintain colonial privilege, allowing extreme and racist ideas to persist.</p>
<p>Ngata cited racialised myth-making in media and schools, state-sanctioned police violence, hyper-surveillance and the incarceration of non-white people.</p>
<p>She argued that a critical mass of harmful ideas was growing and that it is the “responsibility of accountable power to engage humbly in discussion; not just about participants as victims or solution-bearers but also about structural power as part of the problem”.</p>
<figure id="attachment_80780" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-80780" class="wp-caption alignnone c3"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-80780 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-Bill-Hamilton-APR-680wide.png" alt="The Hui . . . Bill Hamilton" width="680" height="550" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-Bill-Hamilton-APR-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-Bill-Hamilton-APR-680wide-300x243.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-Bill-Hamilton-APR-680wide-519x420.png 519w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px"/><figcaption id="caption-attachment-80780" class="wp-caption-text">The Hui . . . Bill Hamilton from the Iwi Chairs forum paid tribute to the work of the late Moana Jackson in the area of Te Tiriti, reminding people that Te Tiriti belonged to everyone. Image: Khairiah A. Rahman/APR</figcaption></figure>
<p>Bill Hamilton from the Iwi Chairs forum paid tribute to the work of the late Moana Jackson in the area of Te Tiriti, reminding people that Te Tiriti belonged to everyone.</p>
<p>Hamilton recounted that despite Te Tiriti’s promise of protection and non-discrimination, Māori suffered terrorist acts.</p>
<p>“We had invasions at Parihaka . . . our leaders were demonised . . . our grandparents were beaten as small kids by the state for speaking their language [Māori].”</p>
<p>Hamilton reflected on the values of rangatiratanga and said that perhaps, instead of forming a relationship with “the crown”, Māori was better off forming relationships with minority communities based on shared values.</p>
<p>He explained that rangatiratanga is a right to self-determination; the right to maintain and strengthen institutions and representations. It is a right enjoyed by everyone.</p>
<p>Hamilton called for a state apology and acknowledgement of the terrorism inflicted on whānau in Aotearoa. He proposed a revitalisation of rangatiratanga, the removal of inequalities and discrimination, and the strengthening of relationships.</p>
<p>Rawiri Taonui, an independent researcher, presented a Te Tiriti framework for national security.</p>
<p>There was a marked difference between the Crown’s sovereign view of the Te Tiriti relationship with Māori and Māori’s view of an equal and reciprocal Te Tiriti relationship with the Crown.</p>
<p>Taonui highlighted that while Te Tiriti was identified as important for social cohesion in the Royal Commission Report, Te Tiriti was absent in the 15 recommendations for social cohesion.</p>
<p>He explained the tendency in policy documents to separate Māori from new cultural communities.</p>
<p>“That is a very unhelpful disconnect because if we are trying to improve social cohesion, one of the things we need to do is bring Māori and many of our new cultural communities together. Because we share similar histories — colonisation, racism, violence.”</p>
<p>Taonui proposed a “whole of New Zealand approach” towards countering terrorism, emphasising social cohesion to prevent extremism as “we all belong here”.</p>
<p><em>4. On countering radicalism</em></p>
<p>In a panel session on “Responding to the changing threat environment in Aotearoa”, Paul Spoonley, co-director of He Whenua Taurikura National Centre of Research Excellence, said that he was confused about how communities should be engaged as “often the affected communities are not the ones that provided the activists or the extremists. How do we reach out to those communities who might often be Pākehā?</p>
<p>“By the time we get to know about these groups, they have progressed down quite a long path towards radicalisation.</p>
<p>“So if we are going to provide tools to communities, we must understand that the context in which people get recruited are often very intimate; we are talking about whānau and peer groups. We are talking about micro settings.”</p>
<p>Sara Salman, from Victoria University in Wellington, spoke on radicalism and the thought processes and emotional attraction to notoriety and camaraderie that encourage destructive behaviours.</p>
<p>For radicals, there is a feeling of deprivation, “a resentment and hostility towards changes in the social world”, whether these are women in the workspace, migrants in society, or co-governance in the political system.</p>
<p>In the context of March 15, the radical is typically a white supremacist male. Such males join extremist groups because they feel a sense of loss and are motivated by power and social status.</p>
<p>According to Salman, there is now a real threat to our governance and democracy by radical groups through subtle ways like entering into politics.</p>
<p>“Radical individuals who ascribe to supremacy ideas are engaging in disruptions that are considered legitimate by entering into local politics to disrupt governance.”</p>
<p>Salman warned that although the government might prefer disengagement, which is intervention before a person commits violence, deradicalisation is critical as it aims to change destructive thinking.</p>
<p>Research showed that children as young as 11 have been recruited and influenced by radical ideas. Without being repressive, the government needs to deradicalise vulnerable groups.</p>
<p><em>5. Vulnerable communities and post-colonial Te Tiriti human rights</em></p>
<p>Several speakers on the “countering messages of hate” panel discussed horrific stories of physical, verbal and sexual attacks based on their identities including, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.</p>
<p>Many spoke about the lack of fair representations in media and professional roles and one participant emphasised that members of a group are diverse and not defined by stereotypes.</p>
<p>In an earlier session, chair of the Rainbow New Zealand Charitable Trust, called on society, including the ethnic and religious communities, to find ways of helping this group feel supported and loved in their communities.</p>
<p>Lexie Matheson, representing the trans community, spoke on the importance of being included in discussions about her people. She echoed my point at last year’s media panel about fair representations: “Nothing about us, without us”.</p>
<p>In the closing session, Paul Hunt, chair of the Human Rights Commission argued that the wide spectrum of human rights is normative as it defined the ethical and legal codes for conduct of states and constituted humanity’s response to countering terrorism.</p>
<p>Hunt offered a post-colonial human rights perspective and called for a process of truth-telling and peaceful reconciliation which respects the universal declaration of human rights and Te Tiriti.</p>
<p>“My point is in today’s Aotearoa, violent extremism includes racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia and white supremacy. And it is dangerous for all communities and for all of us.</p>
<p>“And if we are to address with integrity today’s violence, racism and white supremacy, we have to acknowledge yesterday’s violence, racism and white supremacy which was part of the social fabric of the imperial project in Aotearoa.”</p>
<p><em>6. What the Hui got right and wrong</em></p>
<p>Prime Minister <a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/477887/community-groups-urge-need-to-combat-online-hate-speech-at-second-counter-terrorism-hui" rel="nofollow">Jacinda Ardern’s presence and participation on the final day</a> was timely, inspired confidence and implied a seriousness to address issues. Ardern covered developments that impact on national security, from technology, covid-19 and the war in Ukraine to climate change.</p>
<p>She addressed the radicalisation prevention framework and announced its release at year end, with an approved budget funding for $3.8 million to counter terrorism and violent extremism.</p>
<p>The Hui must have cost a pretty penny. Participants appreciated the food and comfort of the venue, but was there really a need for illustrators to capture the meetings on noticeboards?</p>
<figure id="attachment_80769" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-80769" class="wp-caption alignnone c3"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-80769 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-whiteboard-APR-680wide.png" alt="The Hui whiteboard" width="680" height="543" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-whiteboard-APR-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-whiteboard-APR-680wide-300x240.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hui-whiteboard-APR-680wide-526x420.png 526w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px"/><figcaption id="caption-attachment-80769" class="wp-caption-text">The Hui . . . Participants appreciated the food and comfort of the venue, but was there really a need for illustrators to capture the meetings on noticeboards? Image: Khairiah A Rahman/APR</figcaption></figure>
<p>If the organisers meant to enthuse participants with the novelties of artwork, stylish pens, and a supportive environment of aroha and healing, they have done a decent job.</p>
<p>But repeated feedback from Muslim representatives on the lack of action by government departments must be taken seriously and addressed promptly. All the good intentions without action achieve nothing.</p>
<p>Until those directly involved in the horrendous Christchurch massacres witness concrete sustainable actions that can support social cohesion, counter radicalism and violent extremism, the great expenses and show of love at this Hui would be wasted.</p>
<p><em>Khairiah A Rahman was a speaker at the media panel at the He Whenua Taurikura Hui in 2021. She is a senior lecturer at AUT’s School of Communication Studies, a member of FIANZ Think Tank, secretary of media education for Asian Congress of Media and Communication (ACMC), secretary of the Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), assistant editor of</em> <a href="https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/" rel="nofollow">Pacific Journalism Review</a> <em>and a member of AUT’s Diversity Caucus.</em></p>
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<p>New research details the extent of racism, othering and tokenism faced by Māori and Pacific postgraduate students in Aotearoa New Zealand.</p>
<p>The paper, published in the <em>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand</em>, was based off responses of 43 Māori and Pacific students in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) subjects.</p>
<p>Many of the respondents detailed being made to feel out of place, having their place at university questioned, or being made a token representative for funding applications.</p>
<p>In one instance, one Māori student’s name was added to a funding application by the faculty despite them expressly saying “no”.</p>
<p>“My name (my mana and reputation) was used against my will to secure funding for a project that I refused multiple times to be part of,” one participant said.</p>
<p>Lead researcher Dr Tara McAllister of the University of Auckland told RNZ <em>Nine to Noon</em> there were a lot of shocking stories.</p>
<p>“Every time I read people’s responses to the question I had to kind of mentally prepare myself for reading, you know, really horrific experiences of racism and all the kind of other things that go with that,” she said.</p>
<p><strong>Students felt alienated</strong><br />The survey results pointed to students who often felt alienated by the assumptions of colleagues, or isolated as the only Māori or Pacific student in the building; students whose very place in the university was often questioned.</p>
<p>“Sometimes … people make comments that we are only where we are because we are Pacific people,” another participant said.</p>
<p>Māori and Pacific academics make up less than 5 percent and 2 percent respectively of all academics.</p>
<p>To combat this, many universities have been trying to increase the number of Māori and Pacific students in the institutions.</p>
<p>But another of the researchers, Dr Sereana Naepi, said that would do little to keep those students in academia, and the very structure of the academy needed to change to be more culturally accommodating.</p>
<p>“We haven’t taken on the structures that make people leave the system and so that’s really what we’re talking about: how do these different experiences help us to understand how the structures at play make Māori and Pacific choose not to enter the academy or enter the research workforce,” she said.</p>
<p>Dr McAllister said many rangatahi surveyed said they felt alone and isolated, but all the responses showed that their experiences were not isolated.</p>
<p>“I hope they read our paper and feel less isolated knowing that we’re doing this work to try and change things and knowing their negative experience may have been less isolated.”</p>
<p><em>This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.</em></p>
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<p>The co-leader of New Zealand’s minority Māori Party has launched a blistering attack on white privilege and the opposition National Party which it accuses of “igniting racism” in the <a href="https://www.tpk.govt.nz/docs/undrip/tpk-undrip-he-puapua.pdf" rel="nofollow">framing of a debate</a> about radical political change.</p>
<p>In a provocative introduction to her <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/indigenous-rights-demand-for-debate-should-address-racism-white-privilege-debbie-ngarewa-packer/DOC7TXL6CQURWMEB2VMZV65OBY/" rel="nofollow">weekly column in <em>The New Zealand Herald</em></a> today, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer asks: “Hey coloniser, so let me get this right, you want to lead a debate about indigenous rights that you helped to destroy?”</p>
<p>She writes in her media message to Pākehā colonisers: “You dishonour Te Tiriti [1840 Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding political partnership document] and promote continuing to do so.</p>
<p>“You stole our land and our language. You denounce our history, preferring to educate on anything but us. And you have done nothing to reverse this, instead preferring to ignore the problems.</p>
<p>“We are in an inherently white system that you designed, yet you feel oppressed that Māori want to stop the pain of inequities. Your systemic racism continues to perpetuate intergenerational trauma, which you refuse to accept.”</p>
<p>While acknowledging that National Party leader Judith Collins claimed that New Zealanders “find racism abhorrent”, she added that “in my opinion she is igniting racism through a carefully deployed campaign — apparently with the help of former leader Don Brash”.</p>
<p>Ngarewa-Packer says New Zealanders are entitled to a conversation about radical change, but they are not “counteracting with alternative solutions”, preferring to focus on what she saw as the “misery of struggling Māori whānau”.</p>
<p><strong>‘White hypocrisy’</strong><br />Criticising what she describes as “white hypocrisy”, Ngarewa-Packer called instead for a “debate about the coloniser’s entitlements”.</p>
<p>“And rather than start on a timeline plucked out to help lift right-wing leaders’ dying polls, let’s start at the beginning: 181 years ago, and discuss the rights of tangata whenua and the radical change needed in Aotearoa to see those rights fulfilled,” she said.</p>
<p>“And yes, I hear you. Why should you pay for your ancestors’ mistakes? But why should we, either?</p>
<p>“No one can give our language, lives, and land (actually this is possible) back. There is no true price for our tāonga. But we must at least stop the lying and stop making a mockery of tangata whenua with this pathetic dog-whistling.”</p>
<p>Ngarewa-Packer says a debate was needed on how New Zealand economy had been built off the “displacement of tangata whenua”.</p>
<p>“How tangata whenua are the largest benefactors to this nation, having accepted settlements worth 1 per cent loss of whenua stolen, in a process determined by the Crown!”</p>
<p><strong>Disparity in the economy</strong><br />Among examples Ngarewa-Packer gave of the disparity between the Pākehā and Māori share of the economy, were the NZ$1.9m funding for Te Matatini, the “largest kapa haka event on the planet, versus $16.9m for the NZ Symphony Orchestra”.</p>
<p>She also cited the $250m spent on the America’s Cup this year.</p>
<p>Ngarewa-Packer has also called for less hypocrisy about “crackdowns needed to stop crime”</p>
<p>“Let’s turn our gaze to white-collar crime, which has seen an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion loss to Aotearoa, through tax avoidance and evasion.”</p>
<p>She added that Māori sought to “drive our own tino rangatiratanga [self-determination]”.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[COMMENT: By John Minto US ice cream manufacturer Ben and Jerry has announced it will no longer sell icecream in the occupied Palestinian Territories. This is a welcome development while Israel is continuing to flout international law with their new government approving the building of 31 more illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank ]]></description>
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<p>US ice cream manufacturer Ben and Jerry has announced it will <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/19/ben-jerrys-to-stop-selling-in-palestinian-territories" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/19/ben-jerrys-to-stop-selling-in-palestinian-territories&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626825584107000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnRbJtktywpDnWRGlbur1kvEnsaA">no longer sell icecream in the occupied Palestinian Territories</a>.</p>
<p>This is a welcome development while Israel is continuing to flout international law with their new government approving the building of <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-government-approves-31-new-settlement-zones-in-west-bank/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-government-approves-31-new-settlement-zones-in-west-bank/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626825584107000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGwsCJMOGPgGl2FFxiKlGTnEtUkMQ">31 more illegal Jewish-only settlements</a> in the occupied West Bank alongside the destruction of Palestinian homes and on-going ethnic cleansing of Palestinian families from occupied East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers. </p>
<p>It appears this move may be linked to <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27291&amp;LangID=E" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID%3D27291%26LangID%3DE&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626825584107000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHfdYas2BgRhiD6dsYJPLw-hmRWaw">last week’s request from the UN Special Rapporteur</a>, Michael Lynk, for countries to recognise Israel’s sponsoring of Israeli settlers on Palestinian land in the Occupied West Bank as “a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.”</p>
<p>The Special Rapporteur calls these settlers (680,000 across almost 300 illegal settlements) “the engine of Israel’s 54-year-old occupation, the longest in the modern world”. </p>
<p>This UN report gives the government the opportunity to make public New Zealand’s abhorrence at these ongoing racist policies against Palestinians.  </p>
<p>New Zealand has been silent since 2016 when the last National-led government co-sponsored United Nations <a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626825584107000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH36FvyueZWzfJ6tA2ptAEYimdJUQ">Security Council resolution 2334</a> which declared Israel’s illegal settlements to have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation of international law”.  </p>
<p>The next step — as requested by the United Nations last week, is for New Zealand to declare this Israel settler policy as a “war crime”.</p>
<p>Five years of silence is complicity with Israel’s war crimes. It is not acceptable.</p>
<p>Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has written this week to the Minister of Foreign Affairs about this. We are expecting the government to speak out.</p>
<p><em>John Minto is national chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA).</em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Reiner Brabar in Sorong, West Papua Scores of activists from the Papua People’s Solidarity Against Racism (SPMR) have held a free speech forum in front of the Elin traffic light intersection in Sorong city, West Papua, province. The action was held to oppose racism against indigenous Papuans which is “flourishing and rooted” in the ]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>By Reiner Brabar in Sorong, West Papua<br /></em></p>
<p>Scores of activists from the Papua People’s Solidarity Against Racism (SPMR) have held a free speech forum in front of the Elin traffic light intersection in Sorong city, West Papua, province.</p>
<p>The action was held to oppose racism against indigenous Papuans which is “flourishing and rooted” in the minds of Indonesian people, say the activists. They urged the Indonesian government to immediately investigate cases of racism against indigenous Papuans (OAP).</p>
<p>“The contempt towards OAP is not something that has only happened recently in Indonesia. It has been happening for a long time but the Indonesian state continues to protect the perpetrators without acting firmly against them,” said action coordinator Apey Tarami following the action on Monday.</p>
<p>According to Tarami, the racist attitudes shown towards Papuan soccer player Patrik Wanggai is just one more note in a long record of racism in Indonesia which has targeted the Papuan people.</p>
<p>“The state protects perpetrators of this flourishing racism. This is evidence of continued racism against Papuans this year. Meanwhile there are no clear legal actions taken even though it is reported to the police,” said Tarami.</p>
<p>Tarami noted other cases which have occurred, such as those against former Human Rights Commission member Natalis Pigai and the recent racist threats against Papuan students in Malang, East Java, by the Malang police chief (Kapolresta) as examples of how the state protects the perpetrators.</p>
<p>Another activist, Ando Sabarafek, said that each time there was a racist incident against Papuans it was always resolved by an apology through the mass media, but this did not heal the “spiritual injury” suffered by Papuans.</p>
<p>“The Malang Kapolresta must be sacked. Firm action must be taken against the perpetrators of racism against Patrik Wanggai though social media. An apology can never heal the hearts of Papuan people,” he said.</p>
<p>The activist from the group Kaki Abu also called on the Indonesian government to immediately give the Papuan people the right to self-determination as a democratic solution.</p>
<p>“The NKRI [Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia] is a racist state. Papuan independence is the best solution so that the Papuan people will be free to determine their own future,” he said.</p>
<p>“As long as the Papuan people are under Indonesian [rule], racism against Papuans will continue to flourish and never disappear from the face of the earth and the character of the Indonesian people.”</p>
<p><em>Translated by James Balowski for IndoLeft News. The original title of the article was <a href="https://suarapapua.com/2021/03/31/rasisme-terhadap-oap-tumbuh-subur-di-indonesia/" rel="nofollow">“Rasisme Terhadap OAP Tumbuh Subur di Indonesia”</a>.</em></p>
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