Martyn Bradbury’s October 5 post on The Daily Blog attacked Winston Peters in unusually vicious terms, accusing the [ex] deputy prime minister of “siding with genocide” and calling him a “sad old Zionist coward”.
Bradbury went beyond criticism of New Zealand’s foreign policy, urging readers to confront and insult National, ACT, and NZ First MPs in public, chant “war criminal”, and even “spit in their food.” Bradbury argued that since “the frontline is everywhere”, protests should continue outside Peters’ home.
Peters responded on X with characteristic bluntness. Mocking Bradbury as “Bummer”, he described the blogger’s writing as “radically unhinged, abuse-inciting, violent Marxist rants”. Peters said no “ordinary Kiwi” would find Bradbury’s comments acceptable and dismissed his audience as a “phone-box-sized echo chamber of loopy lefty losers”. He added that Bradbury’s anger simply confirmed the government was making “the right choices”.
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