Sep 15, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Chris Wilson “Past white nationalist terrorism demonstrates that the greatest risk often comes from individuals on the periphery of organised extremist groups.” It is more than 18 months since a now convicted terrorist Brenton Tarrant drove to...
Mar 12, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Paul Spoonley In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed. I’ve researched...
Jul 23, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society, Referee
In recent years, fascists and white supremacists have emerged from the darkest corners of the internet onto the streets – and into the halls of power. The movement’s activists are being radicalised online, and driven to acts of atrocity like those carried...
May 23, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society, Referee
By Emmi Bevensee The devastating anti-Muslim attacks carried out in Christchurch in March this year were part of a trend of disaffected white men, radicalised into fascist politics through social media meme culture. The alleged shooter, now facing trial for the murder...
Apr 4, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Damon Berry After the horrendous attacks in Christchurch, many people understandably have questions about the motives and ideology of the alleged attacker. Damon Berry analyses the role the alt-right might have played in the attacks. After the horrendous attacks in...
Mar 27, 2019 | Politics & Society
By Jean-Paul Marthoz The live-streaming of the March 15 Christchurch terror attacks confronted Western Europe’s mainstream media with a new challenge in the dramaturgy of terrorism. Most newsrooms reacted the way they were expected to react, according to their...
Dec 6, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Heather Wood & Leslie Hahner Once an anti-Semitic rumor moved from fringe to the mainstream, it took less than two weeks for violence to erupt. The false allegation that liberal philanthropist George Soros was funding or supporting a caravan of Honduran...