POSEURS FOR PALESTINE
IRAN PROTESTS SHOW US HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT THE ISSUE FOR “PRO-PALESTINIAN” MOBS.
The cynics among us assumed the caterwauling against Israel over the past few years had precious little to do with Palestinian lives and human rights.
We have been proven tragically correct.
Last weekend, I was at the rally for the Iranian people in Vancouver. The crowd was massive. But I will estimate it was 95% Persian. Not like the far more diverse demographics who make up the Palestinian protests in this town.
The social justice types and human rights poseurs who choked the streets of our city for the past two years were nowhere to be seen.
That’s not actually true.
It gets worse. While there were thousands of people at that rally for Iran, around the corner, mere steps away from the massive rally, where a handful of “pro-Palestinian” activists who couldn’t take even a day off from sucking all the oxygen out of every other cause on the planet.
While thousands of people were calling for freedom for the Iranian people, this cluster of (mostly white, gotta say) stalwarts couldn’t even delay for two hours their posturing for Palestine. No other people in the world deserves so much as a moment of consideration.
What’s happening here could not be clearer.
It’s obviously not because of oppression.
If it were, those people would have folded their little protest and joined the Iranian-Canadians 20 metres away.
But the values of activists around the world are apparently not dependent on the justness of the cause or the oppression of the impacted people, but the characteristics of the perceived oppressors.
Palestinians oppressed by Jews? Millions on the streets.
Iranians oppressed by Islamic fundamentalists? Crickets.
Worse than crickets. Deflection. Redirection.
The millions of people who have marched over the past several years for Palestine have shown themselves to be precisely what they are. Do I even need to say it?
Overwhelmingly, they call themselves progressive.
There are, of course, few things in the world less “progressive” than Palestinianism.
But if Palestinianism won’t fit progressivism, progressives have decided they will make their movement fit Palestinianism.
As a result, being progressive now, apparently, means tolerating or even celebrating the beheading of babies, the live immolation of families, the raping of women and men, the mass murder of civilians, and the holding of hostages in the most brutal circumstances for almost two years, all in the name of “resistance.”
The progressive movement has accommodated these atrocities — but this does not mean that they have adopted wholesale the idea of beheading, live immolation, rape, kidnapping and mass murder across the board.
It is only “resistance” when it is done to Jews.
You might think that, when a people are oppressed, human rights and social justice activists around the world would stand in solidarity with them, regardless of who the oppressor may be.
Aren’t we naïve.
The hundreds of thousands, millions probably, who took time out of their weekends, month after month during the Gaza war, to clog the streets of world capitals and terrorize Jews and plenty of other ordinary folks with their hatred and calls for violence now remain cozy at home while the people of Iran are being picked off by Islamic fundamentalists.
The silence from the usual suspects is absolutely deafening.
The hollow immorality of these activists has never been in more stark relief.
Many of us already knew who they were at heart.
Will the world finally recognize it?
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The pro-Pal demonstrators lack of interest in freeing the people of Iran from Muslim religious fanatics makes perfect sense to me. Gaza has been run by Muslim religious fanatics for generations now. Every single person I have interacted with either in person or on the internet who says they "stand with Palestine" angrily dismisses my question of whether they know that Gaza has a history, documented by Human Rights Watch of gang rape and torture murder of anyone who disobeys strict Muslim religious laws against sexual and/or reproductive freedom. Honor killings are never prosecuted there. But this doesn't matter because according to the pro-Pals, the Palestinians have a right to take over Israel and impose any laws their fanatical Muslim leaders want to on the people who live there. If these protestors objected to a regime in any country that imposed extremist interpretations of Sharia law on their citizens, they would have to recognize that the Muslim governing bodies Gaza has had and still does are brutal dictators oppressing any Gazans who want to live in a free society.
Well said. Will the world wake up to the truth? I'm not optimistic because it's pretty much crickets worldwide for the slaughter and oppression of Iranians. Interestingly, Israelis, who have enough challenges of their own, are the ones supporting Iranian protesters the most.