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Source: https://spectator.com/article/the-lefts-snivelling-silence-on-iran/
The Keffiyeh Crew's Curious Silence on Iran
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - In 2025, the activist class spoke of the Middle East and little else. They culturally appropriated Arab headwear, poncing about in China-made keffiyehs. They wrapped themselves in the Palestine colors. They frothed day and night about a "murderous regime" - you know who. And yet now, as a Middle Eastern people revolt against their genuinely repressive rulers, they've gone silent. These people love to yap about "resistance" and "oppression." Yet the minute men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive theocracy that subjugates them, they go coy. Their solidarity evaporates. Their flag-waving ends. Where are the solidarity marches? Where are the gatherings outside Iranian embassies to echo the protesters' cry for an end to the regressive rule of the ayatollahs? It's an anti-war uprising too. Protesters are chanting "Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran!" in glorious protest against the regime's wasteful spending on its antisemitic proxy armies of Hamas and Hizbullah. Where are the Western anti-imperialists to cheer this demand for social spending over the squandering of billions on a medieval war of attrition against the world's only Jewish state? This is where we get to the ugly truth of their creepy silence on Iran. Where Iranian progressives understand that Hizbullah and Hamas are brutal outfits doing the bidding of a ruthless regime, our activist class has a tendency to view them as "resistance" movements. Their Israelophobia has so thoroughly shattered their moral compasses that they bristle at the very suggestion that Iran should stop funding Israel's hateful foes and instead should focus on improving the lot of the Iranian people. We end up in the truly perverse situation where the privileged keffiyeh classes of the West instinctively want the Iranian regime to survive - in order that it might continue sticking it to evil Israel - while the young of Iran dream of the regime's withering away. It's now clear that their cause of madly hating Israel takes precedence over everything else, including offering solidarity to the freedom-yearning people of Iran. Your liberty will have to wait, guys - we haven't destroyed the Jewish state yet.