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Auckland Grammar is among schools across the city whose students have been accused of anti-semitic behaviour.
But the New Zealand Jewish Council believes such behaviour is teenage bullying rather than malicious targeting of those with Jewish heritage.
Grammar became the focus of national attention after photos emerged of a group of students bowing before, kissing and saluting a swastika at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
It followed pressure on the school after a rugby match between its 1st XV and their Kelston Boys High opponents degenerated into a brawl in August.
Jewish Council president Stephen Goodman, who has two sons at Grammar, said he had received a complaint about comments by a student at one of Auckland's private schools in recent days.
Goodman believed the comments were similar to those made at a number of schools and related to bullying rather than anti-semitism.
Other minorities were also subject to similar harassment. "It's more akin to teenage boys highlighting anyone that is different."
Goodman also dismissed anti-semitism as the motivation for the actions depicted in the photos from the museum.
- HERALD ON SUNDAY
