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Why Do They March for Gaza, But Not Iran?
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - The same people who have been conducting mass demonstrations and virtue-signaling about their devotion to the cause of human rights and their abhorrence of civilian casualties when it came to the war in Gaza have been largely silent about what is happening in Iran. The activists who turned out in the tens of thousands to protest the war in Gaza or to broadcast their identification with Palestinians has zero interest in the Iranian struggle for freedom or the many victims of the Islamist regime. The opinion columnists at major outlets who have been churning out articles falsely accusing Israel of "genocide" while parroting grossly inaccurate Palestinian casualty figures are mum about Iran. Given everything heard about how terrible it is for the innocent to be killed in conflict, why do they have nothing to say about Tehran, while they're all very vocal about backing a "Free Palestine"? If anything, the fight for freedom in Iran ought to be generating a lot more foreign support than the Palestinian cause. After all, the Palestinians have rejected compromise, peace and a two-state solution to end the Arab-Israeli conflict for nearly a century. And the recent war in Gaza wasn't an Israeli attempt to stifle democratic protests. It was a morally justified response to a cross-border invasion by Palestinian Arabs on Oct. 7, 2023, which resulted in an orgy of mass murder, rape, torture, and kidnapping. The ceasefire in Gaza reached last October didn't really dampen the ardor of the anti-Israel crowd. Rather, as the chants of the pro-Hamas mobs made clear, it was their support for the desire of the Palestinians to see Israel eradicated and for violence against Jews wherever they lived that lured them to join the cause. Despite their loud proclamations that the anti-Israel protests were rooted in concern about human rights, nobody who actually cares about human rights can support a cause that aims at the slaughter of an entire people.