And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025, they spoke of little else. They culturally appropriated Arab headwear, poncing about in China-made keffiyehs. They wrapped themselves in the Palestine colours. They frothed day and night about a rCymurderous regimerCO rCo you know who. And yet now, as a Middle Eastern people revolt against their genuinely repressive rulers, theyrCOve gone schtum.
What is it about revolts in Iran that rankle the activist class? These people love to yap about rCyresistancerCO and rCyoppressionrCO. Yet the minute
men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive
theocracy that immiserates and subjugates them, they go coy. Their solidarity evaporates. Their flag-waving ends. They go back to tweeting about TV.
ItrCOs happening again as the latest Iranian uprising enters its seventh day. In cities across Iran, people are protesting the economic
mismanagement and clerical tyranny of the Islamist ruling class. It
started a week ago, in Tehran, when shopkeepers shuttered their
businesses and hit the streets to express their anger about yet another sharp fall in the Iranian currency against the US dollar. They were
swiftly joined by other Iranians furious about declining living standards.
The protests are morphing into a collective rage against theocracy
itself. Students have joined: young women and men sick of being told
what to wear and how to think by the ayatollah classes. It is now the largest revolt to have shaken Iran since the uprising in 2022 over the
death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iranian Kurdistan
who was accused by the morality police of not wearing her veil properly.
There have been images of unimaginable bravery from the past week. WerCOve seen young women dancing and laughing, their hair freely flowing, in defiance of those cranky old men who think such rCysinfulrCO creatures should cover up and shut up. WerCOve seen a lone man sitting in the middle of the road, blocking the way of the regimerCOs riot goons on their motorbikes. It has echoes of Tiananmen SquarerCOs rCytank manrCO.
For those of us who love liberty, who support the freedom of the
individual against the dictates of theocratic strongmen, these are
stirring scenes. It is especially electrifying to see IranrCOs young women once again raise a collective middle finger to their Islamist
oppressors. Women in Iran face huge legal and social discrimination rCo
that many are throwing off their hijabs and saying rCyNo morerCO is a wonderful blow for equality against cruelty.
So where are the solidarity marches? Where are the gatherings outside Iranian embassies to echo the protestersrCO cry for an end to the sexist, regressive rule of the ayatollahs?
ItrCOs an anti-war uprising too. Protesters are chanting rCyNeither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran!rCO, in glorious protest against the regimerCOs wasteful spending on its anti-Semitic proxy armies of Hamas and
Hezbollah. 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 worldrCOs only Jewish state?
This is where we get to the ugly truth of the leftrCOs creepy silence on Iran. Where Iranian progressives understand that Hezbollah and Hamas are brutal outfits doing the bidding of a ruthless regime, our activist
class has a tendency to view them as rCyresistancerCO movements.
They could never get behind the Iranian peoplerCOs cry for those
neo-fascist militias to be defunded because they are drunk on the
delusion that these terrorists are an important bulwark against the
rCyreal menacerCO in the Middle East: Israel. Their Israelophobia has so thoroughly shattered their moral compasses that they bristle at the very suggestion that Iran should stop funding IsraelrCOs 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 rCo
in order that it might continue sticking it to evil Israel rCo while the young of Iran dream of the regimerCOs withering away. The revolt in Iran
has exposed not only the crisis of legitimacy of the ayatollah classes
but also the treachery of Western progressives. ItrCOs now clear that
their luxury 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 rCo we havenrCOt destroyed the Jewish state yet.
ThererCOs another ingredient in their moral cowardice rCo the fear of being thought rCyIslamophobicrCO. A generation raised to believe that everything from criticising the Koran to dissing the hijab is a form of bigotry is never going to be able to stand with people who are throwing their
hijabs on to open fires and taking the mick out of their Islamic rulers.
The leftrCOs snivelling silence on Iran speaks to how far they have fallen down the well of moral relativism.
Brendan OrCONeill
And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025, they spoke of little else. They culturally appropriated Arab headwear, poncing about in China-made keffiyehs. They wrapped themselves in the Palestine colours. They frothed day and night about a rCymurderous regimerCO rCo you know who. And yet now, as a Middle Eastern people revolt against their genuinely repressive rulers, theyrCOve gone schtum.
What is it about revolts in Iran that rankle the activist class? These people love to yap about rCyresistancerCO and rCyoppressionrCO. Yet the minute
men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive
theocracy that immiserates and subjugates them, they go coy. Their solidarity evaporates. Their flag-waving ends. They go back to tweeting about TV.
ItrCOs happening again as the latest Iranian uprising enters its seventh day. In cities across Iran, people are protesting the economic
mismanagement and clerical tyranny of the Islamist ruling class. It
started a week ago, in Tehran, when shopkeepers shuttered their
businesses and hit the streets to express their anger about yet another sharp fall in the Iranian currency against the US dollar. They were
swiftly joined by other Iranians furious about declining living standards.
The protests are morphing into a collective rage against theocracy
itself. Students have joined: young women and men sick of being told
what to wear and how to think by the ayatollah classes. It is now the largest revolt to have shaken Iran since the uprising in 2022 over the
death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iranian Kurdistan
who was accused by the morality police of not wearing her veil properly.
There have been images of unimaginable bravery from the past week. WerCOve seen young women dancing and laughing, their hair freely flowing, in defiance of those cranky old men who think such rCysinfulrCO creatures should cover up and shut up. WerCOve seen a lone man sitting in the middle of the road, blocking the way of the regimerCOs riot goons on their motorbikes. It has echoes of Tiananmen SquarerCOs rCytank manrCO.
For those of us who love liberty, who support the freedom of the
individual against the dictates of theocratic strongmen, these are
stirring scenes. It is especially electrifying to see IranrCOs young women once again raise a collective middle finger to their Islamist
oppressors. Women in Iran face huge legal and social discrimination rCo
that many are throwing off their hijabs and saying rCyNo morerCO is a wonderful blow for equality against cruelty.
So where are the solidarity marches? Where are the gatherings outside Iranian embassies to echo the protestersrCO cry for an end to the sexist, regressive rule of the ayatollahs?
ItrCOs an anti-war uprising too. Protesters are chanting rCyNeither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran!rCO, in glorious protest against the regimerCOs wasteful spending on its anti-Semitic proxy armies of Hamas and
Hezbollah. 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 worldrCOs only Jewish state?
This is where we get to the ugly truth of the leftrCOs creepy silence on Iran. Where Iranian progressives understand that Hezbollah and Hamas are brutal outfits doing the bidding of a ruthless regime, our activist
class has a tendency to view them as rCyresistancerCO movements.
They could never get behind the Iranian peoplerCOs cry for those
neo-fascist militias to be defunded because they are drunk on the
delusion that these terrorists are an important bulwark against the
rCyreal menacerCO in the Middle East: Israel. Their Israelophobia has so thoroughly shattered their moral compasses that they bristle at the very suggestion that Iran should stop funding IsraelrCOs 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 rCo
in order that it might continue sticking it to evil Israel rCo while the young of Iran dream of the regimerCOs withering away. The revolt in Iran
has exposed not only the crisis of legitimacy of the ayatollah classes
but also the treachery of Western progressives. ItrCOs now clear that
their luxury 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 rCo we havenrCOt destroyed the Jewish state yet.
ThererCOs another ingredient in their moral cowardice rCo the fear of being thought rCyIslamophobicrCO. A generation raised to believe that everything from criticising the Koran to dissing the hijab is a form of bigotry is never going to be able to stand with people who are throwing their
hijabs on to open fires and taking the mick out of their Islamic rulers.
The leftrCOs snivelling silence on Iran speaks to how far they have fallen down the well of moral relativism.
Brendan OrCONeill
And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025, they spoke of little else. They culturally appropriated Arab headwear, poncing about in China-made keffiyehs. They wrapped themselves in the Palestine colours. They frothed day and night about a rCymurderous regimerCO rCo you know who. And yet now, as a Middle Eastern people revolt against their genuinely repressive rulers, theyrCOve gone schtum.
What is it about revolts in Iran that rankle the activist class? These people love to yap about rCyresistancerCO and rCyoppressionrCO. Yet the minute
men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive
theocracy that immiserates and subjugates them, they go coy. Their solidarity evaporates. Their flag-waving ends. They go back to tweeting about TV.
ItrCOs happening again as the latest Iranian uprising enters its seventh day. In cities across Iran, people are protesting the economic
mismanagement and clerical tyranny of the Islamist ruling class. It
started a week ago, in Tehran, when shopkeepers shuttered their
businesses and hit the streets to express their anger about yet another sharp fall in the Iranian currency against the US dollar. They were
swiftly joined by other Iranians furious about declining living standards.
The protests are morphing into a collective rage against theocracy
itself. Students have joined: young women and men sick of being told
what to wear and how to think by the ayatollah classes. It is now the largest revolt to have shaken Iran since the uprising in 2022 over the
death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iranian Kurdistan
who was accused by the morality police of not wearing her veil properly.
There have been images of unimaginable bravery from the past week. WerCOve seen young women dancing and laughing, their hair freely flowing, in defiance of those cranky old men who think such rCysinfulrCO creatures should cover up and shut up. WerCOve seen a lone man sitting in the middle of the road, blocking the way of the regimerCOs riot goons on their motorbikes. It has echoes of Tiananmen SquarerCOs rCytank manrCO.
For those of us who love liberty, who support the freedom of the
individual against the dictates of theocratic strongmen, these are
stirring scenes. It is especially electrifying to see IranrCOs young women once again raise a collective middle finger to their Islamist
oppressors. Women in Iran face huge legal and social discrimination rCo
that many are throwing off their hijabs and saying rCyNo morerCO is a wonderful blow for equality against cruelty.
So where are the solidarity marches? Where are the gatherings outside Iranian embassies to echo the protestersrCO cry for an end to the sexist, regressive rule of the ayatollahs?
ItrCOs an anti-war uprising too. Protesters are chanting rCyNeither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran!rCO, in glorious protest against the regimerCOs wasteful spending on its anti-Semitic proxy armies of Hamas and
Hezbollah. 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 worldrCOs only Jewish state?
This is where we get to the ugly truth of the leftrCOs creepy silence on Iran. Where Iranian progressives understand that Hezbollah and Hamas are brutal outfits doing the bidding of a ruthless regime, our activist
class has a tendency to view them as rCyresistancerCO movements.
They could never get behind the Iranian peoplerCOs cry for those neo- fascist militias to be defunded because they are drunk on the delusion
that these terrorists are an important bulwark against the rCyreal menacerCO in the Middle East: Israel. Their Israelophobia has so thoroughly
shattered their moral compasses that they bristle at the very suggestion that Iran should stop funding IsraelrCOs 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 rCo
in order that it might continue sticking it to evil Israel rCo while the young of Iran dream of the regimerCOs withering away. The revolt in Iran
has exposed not only the crisis of legitimacy of the ayatollah classes
but also the treachery of Western progressives. ItrCOs now clear that
their luxury 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 rCo we havenrCOt destroyed the Jewish state yet.
ThererCOs another ingredient in their moral cowardice rCo the fear of being thought rCyIslamophobicrCO. A generation raised to believe that everything from criticising the Koran to dissing the hijab is a form of bigotry is never going to be able to stand with people who are throwing their
hijabs on to open fires and taking the mick out of their Islamic rulers.
The leftrCOs snivelling silence on Iran speaks to how far they have fallen down the well of moral relativism.
Brendan OrCONeill
On 1/5/2026 1:56 PM, Julian wrote:
And just like that, the left loses interest in the Middle East. In 2025,
they spoke of little else. They culturally appropriated Arab headwear,
poncing about in China-made keffiyehs. They wrapped themselves in the
Palestine colours. They frothed day and night about a amurderous regimeA
u you know who. And yet now, as a Middle Eastern people revolt against
their genuinely repressive rulers, theyAve gone schtum.
What is it about revolts in Iran that rankle the activist class? These
people love to yap about aresistanceA and aoppressionA. Yet the minute
men and women in Iran rise up in resistance against the oppressive
theocracy that immiserates and subjugates them, they go coy. Their
solidarity evaporates. Their flag-waving ends. They go back to tweeting
about TV.
ItAs happening again as the latest Iranian uprising enters its seventh
day. In cities across Iran, people are protesting the economic
mismanagement and clerical tyranny of the Islamist ruling class. It
started a week ago, in Tehran, when shopkeepers shuttered their
businesses and hit the streets to express their anger about yet another
sharp fall in the Iranian currency against the US dollar. They were
swiftly joined by other Iranians furious about declining living standards. >>
The protests are morphing into a collective rage against theocracy
itself. Students have joined: young women and men sick of being told
what to wear and how to think by the ayatollah classes. It is now the
largest revolt to have shaken Iran since the uprising in 2022 over the
death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iranian Kurdistan
who was accused by the morality police of not wearing her veil properly.
There have been images of unimaginable bravery from the past week. WeAve
seen young women dancing and laughing, their hair freely flowing, in
defiance of those cranky old men who think such asinfulA creatures
should cover up and shut up. WeAve seen a lone man sitting in the middle
of the road, blocking the way of the regimeAs riot goons on their
motorbikes. It has echoes of Tiananmen SquareAs atank manA.
For those of us who love liberty, who support the freedom of the
individual against the dictates of theocratic strongmen, these are
stirring scenes. It is especially electrifying to see IranAs young women
once again raise a collective middle finger to their Islamist
oppressors. Women in Iran face huge legal and social discrimination u
that many are throwing off their hijabs and saying aNo moreA is a
wonderful blow for equality against cruelty.
So where are the solidarity marches? Where are the gatherings outside
Iranian embassies to echo the protestersA cry for an end to the sexist,
regressive rule of the ayatollahs?
ItAs an anti-war uprising too. Protesters are chanting aNeither Gaza nor
Lebanon, my life for Iran!A, in glorious protest against the regimeAs
wasteful spending on its anti-Semitic proxy armies of Hamas and
Hezbollah. 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 worldAs only Jewish state?
This is where we get to the ugly truth of the leftAs creepy silence on
Iran. Where Iranian progressives understand that Hezbollah and Hamas are
brutal outfits doing the bidding of a ruthless regime, our activist
class has a tendency to view them as aresistanceA movements.
They could never get behind the Iranian peopleAs cry for those neo-
fascist militias to be defunded because they are drunk on the delusion
that these terrorists are an important bulwark against the areal menaceA
in the Middle East: Israel. Their Israelophobia has so thoroughly
shattered their moral compasses that they bristle at the very suggestion
that Iran should stop funding IsraelAs 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 u
in order that it might continue sticking it to evil Israel u while the
young of Iran dream of the regimeAs withering away. The revolt in Iran
has exposed not only the crisis of legitimacy of the ayatollah classes
but also the treachery of Western progressives. ItAs now clear that
their luxury 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 u we havenAt
destroyed the Jewish state yet.
ThereAs another ingredient in their moral cowardice u the fear of being
thought aIslamophobicA. A generation raised to believe that everything
from criticising the Koran to dissing the hijab is a form of bigotry is
never going to be able to stand with people who are throwing their
hijabs on to open fires and taking the mick out of their Islamic rulers.
The leftAs snivelling silence on Iran speaks to how far they have fallen
down the well of moral relativism.
Brendan OANeill
It looks like we've been misled with political propaganda. Now we've
seen informants falling down the rabbit hole of moral relativism.
The question is, is there an adult in the room who can "objectively" >considering both sides of any issue?
The problem with moral relativism is that it makes you incapable of >recognizing real wrong doing. YMMV.
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