Since the morning of October 7, 2023, the Western world has witnessed a profound moral inversion. Those who wrapped themselves in keffiyehs and shouted “Free Palestine” were celebrated as voices of conscience, while those who spoke up for Israeli civilians, the families butchered in their homes, young people murdered at a music festival, and hostages dragged into Gaza by a designated terrorist organization, were smeared as Nazi Zionists.
Massive rallies swept across the United States, Canada, and major European cities. Freedom of speech was perverted into a license to incite violence against Jews, Zionists, and anyone who refused to chant slogans like “Globalize the Intifada.” Almost overnight, people who could not locate Gaza on a map rebranded themselves as Middle East experts, united less by knowledge than by an obsessive hostility toward Israel.
Posters of Hamas hostages were torn down. Jewish synagogues and institutions were vandalized. University campuses were occupied. And eventually, rhetoric turned into bloodshed: a young couple was murdered in Washington, D.C., and a Holocaust survivor was killed by a Molotov cocktail in Boulder, Colorado, all in the name of “Free Palestine.”
Fast forward to today, and that same movement is conspicuously quiet.
That very same movement is now in complete silence while more than 10,000 Iranians have been massacred by the Islamic regime. The question is unavoidable: why?
Why are our streets not filled with massive banners demanding that the Iranian regime stop killing its own people?
Why is the regime not labeled “child killer”?
Where is the LGBT movement standing in solidarity with Iranian gays who are executed?
Where are the feminists?
Where is BLM that is so eager to condemn Israel for defending itself as a sovereign nation, yet is silent now?
These questions may be rhetorical, but they expose a grim reality.
If we assumed that those chanting “Globalize the Intifada” were merely ignorant and misled, we might be inclined to show some leniency. Even then, the moral failure would remain. But if we look at the facts and at what we have witnessed for years, the answer is far more disturbing and must be said plainly: these people are directly or indirectly supporting an Islamist regime.
Tehran has been funding Hamas since the 1990s, providing millions of dollars, weapons, and training. It funds Hezbollah in Lebanon, stationed on Israel’s northern border. And now, that very organization is slaughtering its own people by the thousands, aided by well-established proxies and imported militias from Iraq.
The Iranian people, largely abandoned by the world, are fighting to overthrow an Islamic regime that has caused bloodshed not only inside Iran, but across the entire so-called “axis of resistance.” Since December 28, 2025, Persians have been giving their lives for freedom. This is what real freedom fighting looks like. Marching through Manhattan donning keffiyehs while looting the city is no freedom fight. That is just performative outrage.
If the global protest movement truly cared about Palestinians, it would stand unequivocally with the Iranian people. A regime change in Tehran would do more to free Palestine than any chant ever could. Hamas survives because of Iranian money and weapons. Remove that lifeline, and the terror infrastructure collapses.
Instead, we are witnessing silence, or absurd conspiracy theories claiming Israeli Mossad agents are behind the unrest in Iran. The insinuation is as insulting as it is absurd. Let us be honest for a moment: Does it sound remotely reasonable that tens of thousands of Mossad agents are roaming the streets of Iran, willingly facing torture and execution by the ayatollahs? Blaming the death of thousands of Iranians on Israel, a reflexive scapegoating, is antisemitism in its clearest form. This level of vilification is reserved for one group alone. But beyond antisemitism, it is also a profound insult to Iranians themselves, as if they are incapable of agency, incapable of deciding their own fate, mere puppets in someone else’s story.
What should be understood is that a regime change in Iran would not only liberate the Persian people, who have been oppressed for 47 years. It would also free Palestine by cutting Hamas’s lifeline, and ultimately benefit Israel, the whole region, Europe, and the United States. If Iran’s Shiite proxy militias collapsed along with the ayatollahs’ goal of regional hegemony and Israel’s destruction, the world would be safer. And yet, somehow, this does not appear to be a noble enough cause for those who are otherwise eager to flood the streets for every fashionable outrage that crosses their path.
And that, more than anything, reveals the moral bankruptcy of today’s loudest activists.
The Iranians’ Freedom Fight: The Prospect of a Hamas-Free Palestine
An anti-Iranian regime protester burns a photo depicting Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, outside the U.S. Consulate in Milan, on January 13, 2026.
Piero Cruciatti / AFP
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Since the morning of October 7, 2023, the Western world has witnessed a profound moral inversion. Those who wrapped themselves in keffiyehs and shouted “Free Palestine” were celebrated as voices of conscience, while those who spoke up for Israeli civilians, the families butchered in their homes, young people murdered at a music festival, and hostages dragged into Gaza by a designated terrorist organization, were smeared as Nazi Zionists.
Massive rallies swept across the United States, Canada, and major European cities. Freedom of speech was perverted into a license to incite violence against Jews, Zionists, and anyone who refused to chant slogans like “Globalize the Intifada.” Almost overnight, people who could not locate Gaza on a map rebranded themselves as Middle East experts, united less by knowledge than by an obsessive hostility toward Israel.
Posters of Hamas hostages were torn down. Jewish synagogues and institutions were vandalized. University campuses were occupied. And eventually, rhetoric turned into bloodshed: a young couple was murdered in Washington, D.C., and a Holocaust survivor was killed by a Molotov cocktail in Boulder, Colorado, all in the name of “Free Palestine.”
Fast forward to today, and that same movement is conspicuously quiet.
That very same movement is now in complete silence while more than 10,000 Iranians have been massacred by the Islamic regime. The question is unavoidable: why?
Why are our streets not filled with massive banners demanding that the Iranian regime stop killing its own people?
Why is the regime not labeled “child killer”?
Where is the LGBT movement standing in solidarity with Iranian gays who are executed?
Where are the feminists?
Where is BLM that is so eager to condemn Israel for defending itself as a sovereign nation, yet is silent now?
These questions may be rhetorical, but they expose a grim reality.
If we assumed that those chanting “Globalize the Intifada” were merely ignorant and misled, we might be inclined to show some leniency. Even then, the moral failure would remain. But if we look at the facts and at what we have witnessed for years, the answer is far more disturbing and must be said plainly: these people are directly or indirectly supporting an Islamist regime.
Tehran has been funding Hamas since the 1990s, providing millions of dollars, weapons, and training. It funds Hezbollah in Lebanon, stationed on Israel’s northern border. And now, that very organization is slaughtering its own people by the thousands, aided by well-established proxies and imported militias from Iraq.
The Iranian people, largely abandoned by the world, are fighting to overthrow an Islamic regime that has caused bloodshed not only inside Iran, but across the entire so-called “axis of resistance.” Since December 28, 2025, Persians have been giving their lives for freedom. This is what real freedom fighting looks like. Marching through Manhattan donning keffiyehs while looting the city is no freedom fight. That is just performative outrage.
If the global protest movement truly cared about Palestinians, it would stand unequivocally with the Iranian people. A regime change in Tehran would do more to free Palestine than any chant ever could. Hamas survives because of Iranian money and weapons. Remove that lifeline, and the terror infrastructure collapses.
Instead, we are witnessing silence, or absurd conspiracy theories claiming Israeli Mossad agents are behind the unrest in Iran. The insinuation is as insulting as it is absurd. Let us be honest for a moment: Does it sound remotely reasonable that tens of thousands of Mossad agents are roaming the streets of Iran, willingly facing torture and execution by the ayatollahs? Blaming the death of thousands of Iranians on Israel, a reflexive scapegoating, is antisemitism in its clearest form. This level of vilification is reserved for one group alone. But beyond antisemitism, it is also a profound insult to Iranians themselves, as if they are incapable of agency, incapable of deciding their own fate, mere puppets in someone else’s story.
What should be understood is that a regime change in Iran would not only liberate the Persian people, who have been oppressed for 47 years. It would also free Palestine by cutting Hamas’s lifeline, and ultimately benefit Israel, the whole region, Europe, and the United States. If Iran’s Shiite proxy militias collapsed along with the ayatollahs’ goal of regional hegemony and Israel’s destruction, the world would be safer. And yet, somehow, this does not appear to be a noble enough cause for those who are otherwise eager to flood the streets for every fashionable outrage that crosses their path.
And that, more than anything, reveals the moral bankruptcy of today’s loudest activists.
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