The Prime Minister is weighing in on an Act MP’s suggestion that pro-Palestine protesters play “terro dress up”, following a rally in Auckland.
Christopher Luxon said he supported free speech, but the comments were “unhelpful”.
“It’s not what I’d say.”
Act leader David Seymour, meanwhile, is backing his MP Simon Court over the comments, while the Green Party reiterated its call for the Government to “show a spine” on the matter.
Court posted to social media site X, formerly Twitter, following the protest: “Saying you care while waving a flag and chanting for ethnic cleansing isn’t really that caring“.
“Playing terro dress-up on weekend, go to work Monday feeling smug about the protest, not realising that most Kiwis they work with don’t actually share their emotional antisemitism [sic],” the MP added.
A spokesperson said the term “terro” was believed to mean “terrorist chic” – a phrase used to describe a cultural trend associated with military or revolutionary groups.
Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson called it out: “History will judge this Government and people like Simon Court for failing to act against the genocide in Gaza.”
Look.
Free Speech and the protection of it allows a piece of shit like Simon Court to spew pro-genocide hatred, and we all have to collectively respect that.
ACT are a pro-Genocide Political Movement who support the war crimes of Zionism and Free Speech means we have to give them that space to vomit up their hatred.
It’s very important now that the UN have ruled that Israel’s actions amount to genocide that we collectively taunt ACT and work so very hard to ensure this redneck, banjo twanging Cracker jamboree is kicked out of office in 2026.
Don’t you dare allow that anger to dissipate, build it and use the energy to do everything in your power to make sure ACT are kicked out at the next election and very single piece of legislation they have put forward is repealed:
- Land Transport (Clean Vehicle Discount Scheme Repeal) Amendment Act 2023
- Fair Pay Agreements Act 2022 (repeal, in effect 20 Dec 2023)
- Equal Pay Amendment Act 2025
- Sentencing Amendment Act 2024
- Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Act 2024
We must never allow ourselves to forget ACT are a Pro-Genocide Party who are as open to exterminating the Palestinians as Israel is.
We all have a collective moral duty to stand against and oppose ACT the same way we have a collective moral duty to stand against the KKK.
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What’s the theory on why so many on the right of politics love Israel so much?
Do they think of it as some sort of model society they’d like to emulate?
It’s fairly universal in centre-right parties like Labour and National. The zionists are very sensible about how they bribe and blackmail politicians, who are often nasty pieces of work, and they can offer the sort of evil rewards that decent human beings won’t and wouldn’t. The sort of people who would be mates with Tim Jago are pretty easy to get dirt on.
yes they do because the colonist mentality in them wishes they could do the same to Maori .
“We must never allow ourselves to forget ACT are a Pro-Genocide Party who are as open to exterminating the Palestinians as Israel is” – Martyn Bradbury
The open supporters of genocide are not the dangerous ones.
It’s the sneaks and creeps and cowards who let them get away with it, those who stay silent and refuse to call them out, or act to stop them.
“the Labour Party’s position remains that it is for the relevant international bodies to determine whether actions by Israel are within the constraints of international law.” – Chris Hipkins
The relevant international bodies have made their determination, Still waiting for your statement in response Chris.
When is the Labour Party going to challenge the government to live up to our responsibilities to the genocide convention?
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who do nothing about it” – Albert Einstein
Indeed. Many prominent figures in the Labour Party have been implicated in meeting with the most extreme genocide supporters like Rob Berg and Juliet Moses, including Andrew Little when leader, who met with them at a zionist lobby function.
https://www.jwire.com.au/new-zealand-opposition-leader-samples-pesach/
Incidentally, that meeting also involved then Labour candidate Sehai Schoenberger-Orgad, currently a WCC official- and a director at the Holocaust Centre of NZ, which is on the record supporting the Gaza genocide and blaming the Palestinian victims for the crimes ‘israel’ is committing against them.
https://1.org.nz/holocaust-centre-of-nz-statement-on-the-gaza-conflict/
Simon Court tells us that most Kiwis agree with his views on Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and that oppostion to the genocide is the same as supporting terrorism.
What is with these right wingers from minority parties that continually claim that they speak for most New Zealanders? (8.6% voted ACT). Yet Simon Court claims that most kiwis agree with his extremist Islamophobic views
Winston Peters claims that most New Zealanders agree with him that Maori born overseas should not have New Zealand citizenship. (6.1% voted NZF)
Has NZF polled most New Zealanders to find out if they agree with Peters that Maori born overseas should not have New Zealand citizenship?
The sheer arrogance.
If I was asked, I would say that Maori are New Zealand citizens no matter where they are born. And it would be weird to think otherwise.
Maori born overseas are automatically NZ citizens? Pakeha descendents born overseas are automatically NZ citizens? Jews born anywhere are automatically Israeli citizens? Can Palestinians even be citizens?
Questions of our time.
YES they’re citizens of Palestine..but tell me, where were the Jews citizens, before stealing Palestine in 1948?
Another of the 6% brigade who has emerged from a rabbit hole .Its a wonder there are any holes left for the poor rabbits
My dream is that in the next election, every lefty in Epsom voted for national, thus denying Seymour (and all his nonentity coat-tailers) a place in parliament. David would soon be forgotten, along with his gun-nut minister, boot camp supporters and other Canadian inspired act-cult ideologues. and kids might have decent school lunches.
Epsomites-bite the bullet and vote national. It’s so simple and we wouldn’t have to see New Zealand’s Nigel Farage ever again.
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