Winston Peters calls out the Left’s hypocrisy on Gaza
Winston Peters has hit the nail on the head again. His latest post calling out the hypocrisy of the left over Gaza isn’t just political theatre, it’s a reminder of how shallow and performative the outrage machine has become.
He was right to ask where the questions are in Parliament? Where’s the media coverage that actually demands answers from those who claim to care about peace? For months we’ve seen noisy street protests, flag waving, and endless moral grandstanding. When a peace deal is on the table, when there’s a genuine opportunity to move forward, suddenly the activists and their political allies fall silent.
Not one question in the House. Not one word of encouragement. Nothing. It’s as if the left prefers chaos to compromise, conflict to resolution. Because without the conflict, they lose their cause and their headlines.
Peters points out that the Italian government even offered to deliver aid to Gaza on behalf of the so called “flotilla” activists, but they refused. If this was truly about helping people, wouldn’t that have been the perfect solution? Their refusal exposes what this was really about: attention, ideology, and headlines, not humanity.
Where’s the media? Peters is right again. Journalists should be asking tough questions of the protesters and the opposition, not just giving them a platform to spout empty slogans. Instead, they turn a blind eye to the contradictions and keep serving up the same tired narrative.
Hipkins, who’s happy to lecture others on “inflammatory rhetoric,” might want to take a look at his own side. The same people sitting beside him in the House are the ones feeding division and fuelling anger, not solutions.
Once again, Winston Peters has said what many are thinking but few in politics have the courage to say out loud that the left’s outrage is hollow, the media is asleep, and it’s time someone called it for what it is.
