We are told these marches are about human rights. About compassion. About standing with the oppressed.
And yet today, as Iranian citizens flood the streets of dozens of cities, openly demanding the overthrow of their Islamist rulers — as the regime fires live ammunition into crowds of unarmed civilians — there is silence.
No marches.
No sit-ins.
No campus occupations.
No outrage.
The death toll is no longer disputed in principle, only in scale — whether it is 2,000 or 12,000 murdered Iranians scarcely matters to the moral point. A regime is killing its own people in plain sight. Women, students, workers — shot for demanding freedom. And the self-styled humanitarian movement that claims the moral high ground cannot even be bothered to show up.
This is not an oversight. It is a revelation.
Because if these protesters truly cared about human rights, Iran would be impossible to ignore. If they opposed “colonialism,” they would be marching against a theocratic dictatorship that crushes women, jails dissidents, executes gays, and rules by terror. If they opposed civilian deaths, they would be screaming about the regime actually pulling the trigger on civilians right now.
But they are not.
Instead, their rage is meticulously focused. Israel must always be the villain. Jews must always be implicated. Islamist regimes, by contrast, are treated with indulgence, excuses, or silence — no matter how brutal their crimes.
That tells us everything we need to know.
This movement is not animated by universal principles. It is not driven by concern for human suffering. It is a single-issue obsession, one that collapses the moment the victims are inconvenient and the perpetrators do not fit the approved narrative.
Human rights, apparently, only matter when Jews can be blamed.
The courage of the Iranian people deserves admiration and support. The silence of the Western protest class deserves something else entirely: exposure.
Because nothing exposes moral bankruptcy faster than knowing when to shout — and when to look away.
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