Beautifully written contemplation of past and present. Hoping that the people who need enlightenment about the threats facing us may read it! We Vancouver Jews have received terrific support from our local Persian community.
Fantastic article thank you.my father worked in Tehran 1973 until the revolution. I visited many times during school and university holidays. There was chronic poverty but there was a building of a more western reality. No burka. No mandatory prayer. Girls at school, wkme at university, pop music in the streets and a thriving economy. Now it's a dump. If the woke brigade went there for a week they'd eould run back to the west. Their disaffection would evaporate. But they're too busy virtue signalling and pretending they care about people they don't care about at all. Iran needs the support if the west to crawl out of the coffin that the ayatollah created.
Just a wonderful piece. The estranged Iranian people must be given an important platform in every Country, in order to explain the sinister and evil plan that they have. I found this so moving and Countries have a duty to expose it.
Beautifully expressed, I enjoyed this essay. Western society must truly be in decline if this is the path we’re pursuing. The Marxists, having failed to get elected have infiltrated the educational and bureaucratic machinery. The progeny of their efforts have no critical thinking skills with which to appraise their current partnership with Islamist, and they have a lot to learn from you and the lessons of the Iranian revolution!
SO appreciate these parallels bein' made--showin' "The West" how quickly a society kin descend inta a totalitarian "Revolutionary" hellscape! (seriously, I fear these "revolutions"'ll be the death of us all... the pink-haired fools in the chynna-child-labor-made keffiyehs screedin' fer justice, oy).
Fan of yers already Maral--so glad Josh here is featurin' the work of all ya wicked-smart women writers bringin' some important perspectives inta the mix (ditto fer bringin' in Karen Hunt an' her work too).
As my kids would say when I made sumthin' tasty..." do it again..." an'
"More please!"
[sum' grattytude: really seein' a lotta GREAT writers & writin' on this Stack--thx thx to all've ya's!, it's like my daily (gf) bread now...!]
Hitchens was certainly not an antisemite. I recommend his essay on antisemitism for the Hannah Arendt Center. Admittedly, like many other leftists, he was mistaken about Zionism. However, I’m confident he would have reconsidered his position if he were still alive.
Beautifully written contemplation of past and present. Hoping that the people who need enlightenment about the threats facing us may read it! We Vancouver Jews have received terrific support from our local Persian community.
Outstanding essay!
Fantastic article thank you.my father worked in Tehran 1973 until the revolution. I visited many times during school and university holidays. There was chronic poverty but there was a building of a more western reality. No burka. No mandatory prayer. Girls at school, wkme at university, pop music in the streets and a thriving economy. Now it's a dump. If the woke brigade went there for a week they'd eould run back to the west. Their disaffection would evaporate. But they're too busy virtue signalling and pretending they care about people they don't care about at all. Iran needs the support if the west to crawl out of the coffin that the ayatollah created.
Thanks for the better explanation of which leftist groups such as LGBTQ “unite” with Islamists!
Just a wonderful piece. The estranged Iranian people must be given an important platform in every Country, in order to explain the sinister and evil plan that they have. I found this so moving and Countries have a duty to expose it.
Beautifully expressed, I enjoyed this essay. Western society must truly be in decline if this is the path we’re pursuing. The Marxists, having failed to get elected have infiltrated the educational and bureaucratic machinery. The progeny of their efforts have no critical thinking skills with which to appraise their current partnership with Islamist, and they have a lot to learn from you and the lessons of the Iranian revolution!
SO appreciate these parallels bein' made--showin' "The West" how quickly a society kin descend inta a totalitarian "Revolutionary" hellscape! (seriously, I fear these "revolutions"'ll be the death of us all... the pink-haired fools in the chynna-child-labor-made keffiyehs screedin' fer justice, oy).
Fan of yers already Maral--so glad Josh here is featurin' the work of all ya wicked-smart women writers bringin' some important perspectives inta the mix (ditto fer bringin' in Karen Hunt an' her work too).
As my kids would say when I made sumthin' tasty..." do it again..." an'
"More please!"
[sum' grattytude: really seein' a lotta GREAT writers & writin' on this Stack--thx thx to all've ya's!, it's like my daily (gf) bread now...!]
Very articulate and insightful. A must read for the woke elite.
Thank you.
Anti Zionism is the latest form of anti Semitism
Hitchens has a mixed record on such issues
So you would consider Hitchens an antisemite?
Fun fact: Hitchens despised Israel.
Hitchens was certainly not an antisemite. I recommend his essay on antisemitism for the Hannah Arendt Center. Admittedly, like many other leftists, he was mistaken about Zionism. However, I’m confident he would have reconsidered his position if he were still alive.
Shitbirds like Maral are why I'll never trust Likudnik fucks.
Helllooooo? Anyone home?
I thought anti-Zionism was anti-semitism. Was I wrong?
Get off Tiktok and read a book, Dingleberry.