The Post’s Saturday 11 October 2025 edition contained an incendiary opinion piece from James Nokise, self-described at the bottom of his piece as a “regular opinion contributor, a comedian, writer, and podcaster”. So I can’t be accused of quoting James’ piece selectively or out of context, here it is:
Read here > The violence of protest and the politics of sympathy | The Post
James’ piece begins “Did Winston Peters deserve to have his window smashed by a protester with a crowbar?”. In James’ opinion, the answer to that question is a resounding…YES. Peters got his just deserts, according to James, simply because, in his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peters was the one to announce that the New Zealand Government is not (yet) prepared to recognise a Palestinian State. Nokise’s polemic includes the following:
Was attacking the New Zealand First leader’s house wrong, though?
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Instead, consider – if you will – after decades of some of the most outrageous soundbites in NZ political history, the Kingmaker himself finally had his castle sieged. There is…also, if we are honest, the shock that it has taken until 2025 for something like this to happen to Winston Peters.
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His continued career relies on an incredibly cynical – verging on cruel – reading of the realities of New Zealand society.
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His finely honed viewpoint has allowed him to…bring an ever-changing band of misfits along for the ride.”
It’s abundantly clear, therefore, that James Nokise thinks Winston Peters deserved to have someone attack his house with a crowbar, terrifying its occupants. Nokise’s message is clear. Peters is fair game, and violence and vandalism against politicians who are to the right of one’s delicate political sensibilities are perfectly fine.
This is yet another classic example of the Loony Left’s advocacy and execution of real violence against its political opponents. Nokise is not-so-subtly encouraging others to attack Winston Peters’ home.
It’s strongly arguable that Nokise’s obnoxious column is a crime under New Zealand’s Crimes Act - inciting others to willfully damage Peters’ home. (Somewhat bizarrely, Mr Crowbar – who has been inexplicably granted name suppression - has been charged with burglary. The Police may well have mucked that up.)
It’s also arguable that Nokise’s piece is criminal under New Zealand’s Harmful Digital Communications Act. In a properly functioning democracy with robust rule of law, James Nokise would get a visit from the Police.
To the extent that Nokise feigns to criticize the Crowbar Culprit, his criticism is not that what the violent vandal did was wrong. It’s only that his violence could bring the Woke Aotearoan Palestinian “cause” into disrepute.
The censorious Left is quick to claim free speech when it suits, and defenders of Nokise will no doubt argue that Nokise’s piece is simply an exercise of his freedom of expression.
In addition to inciting violence, Nokise’s piece exhibits another integral feature of Wokery. Lying. Nokise is a liar. The following is a bare faced lie:
This [Peters] is not the first MP – and not the first Māori MP – in this political cycle to have the safety of their home violated. It is two years to the week since Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke had her home invaded.
The truth is that Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke lied that she had been the victim of a home invasion (in her words, “ram raided”), and it’s as easy as pie to establish the truth - that H-R M-C fibbed. And Nokise knows he was repeating Maipi-Clarke’s lie.
Sadly, M-C’s lies have richly rewarded her. Her home invasion lie pole vaulted her into Parliament. After her haka riddled arrival in Parliament, she has received the One Young World Politician of the Year award. Then, to add insult to idiocy, on 30 September 2025 TIME (used to be a decent magazine) announced Hyphen Hanna as one its World’s Most Influential Rising Stars.
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In his final paragraph, Nokise has a crack at Parliament’s Speaker, Gerry Brownlee:
…Speaker Gerry Brownlee – incredulously – has again produced the worst soundbite response to a haka in Parliament, a rush of blood to the head has given Peters exactly what he needed in the wake of his UN debacle: Sympathy and statesmanship.
Nokise is referring to Brownlee suspending Parliament during an unauthorized haka in Parliament (including the public gallery), following MP Oriini Kaipara’s maiden speech. Brownlee exclaimed, “No, not that. The guarantee was that would not be taking place” – suggesting that Maori Party MPs had expressly promised that the haka they orchestrated would not happen.
Brownlee is open to criticism for how he handled Kaipara’s speech, but not for his “worst soundbite response to a haka”. Brownlee shouldn’t have allowed Kaipara to speak for 15 minutes longer than her allotted time and should’ve cleared the public gallery of the haka hooligans. Any Maori Party MPs who are proved to have been involved in the haka should be suspended from Parliament.
Winston Peters walked out of Kaipara’s speech. Good job.
I’d relish sitting down with James Nokise to discuss his article. But Wokesters don’t engage. They simply spray, and run away.
Nokise is naturally on the Radio New Zealand gravy train. RNZ pays him for his podcast with the infantile title Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower, in which he stuffs his face with fried chicken and talks psychobabble with people who agree with him.
In a competitive field for Unfunny Supremacy, Nokise could well be New Zealand’s least funny comedian. Check Nokise out in the following routine, in which James claims that Jesus Christ crushed Samoa’s gender fluid society, and which he ends with “Protect Trans Youth”.
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John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced.
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