The Democracy Project‘s absurd defence of Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime can’t go unchallenged.
NZ First Apologist and Alt Right media Superstar Chris Trotter has got the fancy words down pat.
Reading Trotter is like wiping your arsehole with silk.
Sure, it’s smooth, but it’s still shit.
His bizarre defence of Israel’s ethnic cleaning war crime just so he can attack on the NZ Left is extraordinary, not least because Dr Bryce Edwards continues to pretend this is ‘From the Left’ – whose fucking Left?
This is to the Left of Caligula!
Here’s a taste…
Galloway’s victory will make not one whit of difference to the unfolding catastrophe in Gaza. He will be despised by virtually the whole of the British Establishment, including the overwhelming majority of his parliamentary colleagues. Aside from making speeches in front of evermore bloodthirsty assemblages of Israel’s enemies, Galloway will have little to offer the people of his constituency, or the broader labour movement. There are precious few red flags to be found amongst the thousands of Palestinian flags being brandished by anti-Israel demonstrators. And those that do appear are not announcing an English revolution.
Not that New Zealand has any need of a George Galloway to defend the Palestinian cause in its Parliament – not with the Green Party of Aotearoa so willing to do the job. New Zealand’s Labour Party, in sharp contrast to its British counterpart, is only marginally less supportive of Palestine than the Greens. Meanwhile, Te Pāti Māori has been quick to link the Palestinians’ fight against “racism” and “colonialism” with their own.
That a majority of New Zealanders stand with Israel in its war against Hamas, daunts not one of this country’s “left-wing” parties. On this issue, as on so many others dear to the hearts of “progressive” Kiwis, there is no room for dissidence; no possibility of debate.
How did the New Zealand Left come to abandon the politics of class, in favour of expressing unquestioning solidarity with emphatically non-progressive religious/political movements in far-off lands – and why? The following comparison may help to clarify at least some of the issues in play.
…what the fuck?
30 000+ Palestinians are dead, we are witnessing an ethnic cleansing war crime in real time and The Democracy Project is attacking the political Left by comparing them to fucking Brian Tamaki?
Nero fiddled while Rome burnt, Trotter is playing an esoteric lute while Gaza is razed.
How the fuck is this Left wing?
Someone needs to buy Dr Bryce Edwards a dictionary.
Rather than ‘From the Left’, call it ‘From the Alt-Right’, or ‘From the Brown Red’, or ‘From the Fox News Left’, anything but ‘From the Left’.
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I haven’t taken much interest in Trotter since he accused me – without any evidence – of being a Hamas supporter and implied I was an anti-Semite. But it’s illustrative that he is the only left-wing blogger that I know of who hasn’t AFAIK, condemned the massacre of Palestinians. You can do this without supporting the religious nutters of Hamas. But he just can’t seem to bring himself to do it he’s got himself worked up into a self-righteous rage which precludes any objectivity it seems to me.
Incidentally I’m not quite sure what the “politics of class” that we have seemingly abandoned, presumably in favour of wokeness, intersectionality and identity politics has got to do with Israel. It’s an ethno – religious state where the lowest Israeli is treated better than any Palestinian.
Unfortunately @GS, we just have to accept the Trotter has well and truly gone down the rabbit hole. Which doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be challenged at every opportunity.
I was talking to a mate just the other day wondering about the Trotter’s transition to the dark side. At first we wondered whether he was on the piss, but even if he is, it’s more than that. The old queen is struggling to remain relevant – especially since he thinks he’s paid his dues and has ‘branded’ himself as the leading left wing boffin. And if you go to his Bowalley (which I occasionally do in the same way I go to Fox News), you’ll see he has His quota of fawning followers. I was going to say sycophants but for the fact that the Trotter is no longer important. An unimportant danger though He may be.
As for Bryce. He’s always been Nu Zulln’s greatest aggregator. Previously unnecessary, but now what you might call a useful irriot, although there are better – just not people that have an agenda (which is to further his academic creds).
Who’d have thought that wankers would take over ‘lil ‘ole NuZulln that punches above its weight
Release the hostages. Hamas are a theocratic death cult with Israel’s destruction as their core goal. They called this hell down on their own citizenry. Israel has walked into their trap. Hamas wanted this chaos. It’s the best recruiting drive for Islamic soldiery since forever. But until the hostages are released Israel will not, and should not relent.
OK, nonce, funny how you pedophiles from ‘Tel Aviv’ never call for the tens of thousands of actual hostages held in zionist torture dungeons to be released.
100%
The people front of Judea no we are the fucken Judea people front
It is extraordinary that Bryce Edwards continues to allow the description of Trotter at the end of each of his columns. As i commented on this latest column:
‘Just for the record, I strongly object to Democracy Project persisting in describing Chris Trotter as ‘New Zealand’s leading leftwing political commentator’. He may be New Zealand’s leading crypto-apologist for Zionism, he may be New Zealand’s leading opponent of those who advance what many Māori perceive to be their Treaty rights; but leading leftwing political commentator he is not.’
Trotters a bad man and twister of facts ,,,,,, the fact is most New Zealanders do not agree with killing children,,, and Israels siege is now killing them through deliberate starvation https://youtu.be/y0yx-_P_EUs?t=1070
… What support Israel has is largely through western/our media laundering Israel lies about Palestinians and the Al Qassam fighters ,,, ie, beheaded babies, Israeli lies ,,,, unborn babies torn from mothers stomachs, Israeli lies ,,,, babies hung by their necks or burned in ovens, Israeli lies,,,, Oct 7th fighters doing mass/systemic rapes, Israeli lies ,,,, torture of families and then murdering them, Israeli lies etc etc etc.
“Oct. 7 Reports Implode: Beheaded Babies, NY Times Scandal, & More” https://youtu.be/x8M9rc9PrWI?t=953
Trotter himself spreads Israel propaganda when he writes about Galloways/British ” bloodthirsty assemblages of Israel’s enemies,” ,,,, these are Peace Protestors, that he’s describing in a totally arse-about-face smear. …. I hope he’s getting paid well.
Trotter should do what George Galloway Galoway says ,,,”Suck it up”
Trotter’s byline of “New Zealand’s leading left-wing commentator” on “The Democracy (sic) Project” is exactly the same as the one that was previously used on TDB. Did Bryce Edwards steal the line from TDB? Or rather was it the case that the not-so-self-effacing Mr Trotter has always been the one claiming that title for himself? The full story of Christopher Marshall Trotter has yet to be written. There is no denying that he is a technically competent journalist, and equally there is no denying that he has been politically duplicitous throughout his career. All that time his activities have been generously funded by the colonialist political establishment, and particularly now that this once putative republican feels free to reveal his loyalty to the British monarchy, he will no doubt be considered for some kind of royal honour. The left needs to give itself a rueful smile, admit “We were duped”, and get on with the business at hand.
“The full story of Christopher Marshall Trotter has yet to be written”
Why bovver? That’s a serious question. There are far more deserving causes.
I know he thinks He’s paid His dues but He’s a bit like a surfer Joe unofficial, self-appointed Mayor of Lyttleton,
@ Countryboy would probably have the correct mediiation. I’d have just prescribed massive doses of estrogen given the last glimpse I had of Him, He Had massive knockers and He looked like He was seriously overdue
George doesn’t give a toss about the genocidal establishment or the sellouts in government, he said in interview he despises this evil. Galloway is more principled, reasoned, articulate, and charismatic than these people will ever be. He is on the right side of history because he believes in the sanctity of life, human rights and the rule of law. He serves as a representative and diplomat for all people, something extraordinarily rare in todays political environment. Maybe this is why the establishment has recoiled with such horror at his reelection, why the bum UK PM called an unprecedented press conference to randomly denounce terror and the Rochdale election result in one foul breath, and why the media is melting down and smearing a candidate elected in a free and fair election. Because this candidate is not for buying, because he has spent his life serving the public not himself, because he resists brutal Western hegemony and it’s ridiculous ‘rules based order’. He isn’t waiting for orders from above about what to say or who to cancel; he has actual morality.
And unlike Trotter, Galloway sees Palestine as more than October 7 when it was supposedly came into being, a superficial narrative and trope created by Israel and the West to justify subjugating, starving and murdering poor brown people while stealing their land. October 7 was when the prisoners of the ghetto rose up against their occupiers. October 6 was when these people were living in a concentration camp. October 8 saw them living in a death camp as Israel, rather than follow legal and humanitarian principles to bring those to justice, escalated their campaign as occupier to an ethnic genocide not seen since the Nazis of WW2 Europe, and in some horrific metrics, even worse. For anyone in NZ or beyond to justify the mass slaughter of innocents, to condone Israel’s blood revenge, to disregard international law, to desecrate every ethical principle that society holds dear, is unforgivable.
Did Galloway even utter one word of how he intends halting the sexual trafficking of working class girls in his new constituency or does his white saviourism only apply to women and children in far-away lands?
Trotter has shown himself to be absolutely despicable, entirely supportive of the genocide being carried out by his zionist masters.
It’s possible to condemn the gross over reach of Israel’s response while also expressing disgust at the rape and murder of children by Hamas. The right and the left seem possessed of people incapable of doing both.
Actually. there’s no reason to condemn s**t that never happened, while condemning the evil that the zionist entity was established to perpetrate against all the people of the world.
Bryce Edwards of course went on a junket to Israel.
I wonder who they have him on tape having sex with, and his or her age?
Youve got some kind of kink fetish mate
That a majority of New Zealanders stand with Israel in its war against Hamas
Well well if that were actually true then thousands would be coming out for the marches the Zionists in Aotearoa have organised. Instead we have thousands every weekend coming out for Palestine.
Be inspired with this demolition of Israeli lies and obfuscations about its illegal occupation of Palestine. The lawyer is Ralph Wilde, speaking for the Arab States at the International Court of Justice. The court has been requested by the UN General assembly to give an advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhbx6iplYNY
VIVA Palestine.
“If that were actually true then thousands would be coming out for the marches the Zionists in Aotearoa have organised. Instead we have thousands every weekend coming out for Palestine.”
Well now, Michal, that ain’t necessarily so.
Could be that the large number of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the street reflects their anger and impotence at the death and devastation depicted daily on their screens.
To those who doubt the bona fides of Palestinian irredentism, however, the tragic loss of life and property in Gaza is interpreted as proof of the need to put an end to Hamas as a military force.
The sort of murderous cynicism that led Gaza’s Hamas rulers to create (on 7/10/23) the circumstances that made Israel’s indisputably excessive, and arguably criminal, retaliation an inevitability, deserves the support of no one still in possession of a working conscience.
Those who favor Hamas’ destruction – as the necessary prerequisite to any resumption of the peace process – have no need to protest.
It is happening before their eyes.
Seems Chris Twatter is as much a gauge of Left thinking as Mike Hosking.
Those of a certain generation – I cal it the 1950’s born Brexit voter – are of a white settler colonial privilege. With a tinge of western civilisation internationalism (imperialism remnant) rules OK.
While that allowed a semblance of working class Labour solidarity in youth into middle age when property ownership and middle class standing intervene. That explains the growing vulnerability to the majority “as the peoples mandate” in democracy, even when it results in injustice.
However the opposition to CG (35/36), estate (24/36) and wealth taxation remains inexplicable – when this is common in the first world.
The one sided support for Israel is indicative of what I would call the drunk on right wing applause syndrome – it impacted Douglas and now it has Trotter.
From some of his earlier writing and hints I suspect that Trots is a faithist. By that I mean that he has strong some sort of baseline christian affiliation, but of what particular flavour/trademark I know not.
When it comes down to showdowns, christians tend to abandon their jew persecution to go after followers of the prophet.
Who knows? except it’s a fact that religion lies at the heart of this particular conflict.
Equally, when it comes to showdowns, the secular left tend to accelerate both their persecution of Christians and protection of the followers of the prophet. Perhaps they don’t realise how well that worked out for them in Iran eh?
Ok, I’ll bite, secular persecution of christians is christian victimhood fantasy. Christians have been fostering for two thousand years, since they first arrived on the scene. It’s a great tool for recruitment and maintaining a sense of cult solidarity.
True, there have been historical instances of persecution such as Stalin and the CCCP, but rational evaluation attributes those cases primarily to motives of politics and power consolidation, and not driven by secular atheism.
Why was Asia Bibi not given sanctuary in Britain do you think?
No answer? Perhaps this will be easier. How many Black Christians have Islamists slaughtered and burned in Nigeria over the last decade?
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