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Jerry Habibi via Instagram Stories 08.06.2024

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by Dexter Van Zile

I recently witnessed something I haven't seen in a long time. On Friday, August 16, 2024, a group of pro-Hamas activists packed up their signs and went home in the face of spirited and non-violent opposition from a coalition of pro-American Iranians and American Jews.

The last time I saw anything like that happen was in 2006 or 2007, when I led a crowd of Israel supporters in chants in order to silence a heckler standing on the sidewalk near the town common in Amherst, Massachusetts. The ridicule was enough to prompt him and his fellow anti-Israel activists to walk away, as we cheered their departure. It was glorious.

On August 16, 2024, the pro-Hamas activists conducted their retreat from Lexington in two stages.

First, they walked away from the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Pleasant Street, where they have been protesting on an intermittent basis since October 7. Then, after they retreated a couple of hundred feet down Mass. Ave. (while tenacious, but peaceful, pro-Israel protesters followed them), the Hamas supporters packed up their signs and withdrew altogether, leaving an Iranian-born American citizen to conduct a solitary rear-guard action. Once the pro-Israel protesters took pity on the police officers charged with keeping the peace and got ready to leave, the pro-Hamas supporter also left — clearly a little bit worse for wear.

The pro-Hamas folks did not abandon the site of their weekly standout because they were outnumbered. The two groups were evenly matched. In fact, the pro-Hamasniks may have even enjoyed a slight numerical advantage over the pro-Israel folks who challenged them. Nevertheless, it was the anti-Israel folks who retreated.

The pro-Israel activists, who had coalesced around a core of Iranian human rights activists associated with From Boston to Iran, used a very simple message to break the resolve of the pro-Hamas activists: "You are on the side of rapists and murderers."

The pro-Hamas protesters tried countering with the lie that Israel is committing a "genocide" in Gaza, but it didn't work on the pro-Israel folks who just kept repeating their message: If you're pro-Hamas, you're siding with rapists and murderers. They offered this message in chants and individual conversations.

The pro-Israel folks didn't bother reminding their opponents that Hamas attacks civilians while hiding behind civilians, thereby making civilian casualties inevitable. They didn't waste their breath reminding the pro-Hamas folks that Arab and Muslim leaders have killed millions of Arab and Muslim civilians without much comment from the progressive left in the United States. The pro-Israel folks knew these facts — but didn't waste their time repeating them on the streets of Lexington. They just kept repeating the central truth of the conflict in Gaza: Hamas is a bunch of rapists and murderers, and many leftists and anti-democratic radicals in the US have taken their side.

Most importantly, our strategy worked.

By repeating the simple truth of what's happening in the Middle East, a gathering of pro-Israel Jews and Iranians stripped a gathering of pro-Hamas protesters of the moral superiority in which they have wrapped themselves since October 7. By sticking to the "Hamas is a bunch of rapists and murderers" message, pro-Israel activists reminded any self-proclaimed progressives who joined the Hamas supporters, that the October 7 massacre was not performed to "liberate" the Palestinians — but to build a social order in the Middle East in which terror and violence is the dominant culture, as opposed to peace, tolerance, and full rights for all religions, genders, and minorities.

It is no accident that Iranians who oppose the theocratic leadership in Tehran have become a powerful force of anti-Hamas activism in the United States. Having to deal with the rapists and murderers who oppress their friends and relatives, Iranian human rights activists understand that the violence against moderate Muslims, non-Muslims, and women in Iran has a common root with the violence of the October 7 massacre. They know that the violence perpetrated against Iranian and Israeli women is justified by radical Islamism, a supremacist ideology that privileges the rights of Muslim men over non-Muslims and women.

Although leftists should know this as well — many don't, and they need to be reminded repeatedly, and publicly, of the true nature of the radical Islamist movement they help support. One day, they will be the target of the Islamist oppression endured by Iranians and Israelis and when it happens, they won't be allowed to say no one told them.

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Women, Life, Freedom; Mahsa Amini, Iran's hijab law, Dictatorship

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[workersolidarity]

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IRANIANS GATHER BY THE THOUSANDS TO RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE ON INTERNATIONAL AL-QUDS DAY

📹 Scenes from Tehran, the Iranian capital, where thousands of Iranians have gathered to rally in solidarity with Palestinians under siege and bombardment in the Gaza Strip, marching on Friday, April 5th, 2024, celebrated as International Al-Quds Day (occupied Jerusalem).

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MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED

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have you seen the news that Iranians are actually doing anti Hamas protesting and even expressing support for Israel? Gives me a little bit of hope (https://www.tumblr.com/castlead/732158568074199040/the-people-of-iran-are-so-fucking-brave-unlike)

Yes, this happens periodically and it's both inspiring and poignantly sad. We should not expect Iranians to be Zionists (uh, to put that mildly), but they also aren't stupid and they can plainly see how their murderously oppressive regime is prioritizing Palestine over their own lives and well-being. I lose count of how many times in the last 10-15 years there have been massive, nationwide riots throughout Iran aimed at toppling the dictatorship, always to be finally, gorily beaten back when the ayatollah sends his death squads to just machine-gun them all in the streets.

Before the ayatollah took over, Iran and Israel were allies. There were tourists, students, business deals. Iranians now over age 60 or so should remember that, may have told their children. But even if they hadn't, you often see cases of Iranians jeering down official displays of Palestinian flags, or performatively refusing to walk upon the Israeli flags that the regime stretches across the ground. This is not a love for Herzl or Jews, it is a rejection of diversions, of the symbols demanded by the tyrants who kill them in the streets. As the chants go: Taliban, Taliban, this is not Afghanistan / No Gaza, no Lebanon, my life for Iran.

It's especially tragic that there were giant anti-government protests throughout both Iran and Israel all year long. The world would be so much better if even one of those movements had truly won.

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Messages written by Iranians all over the country express support for Israel.

This sign says "Hit them Israel, Iranians are behind you."

Another says: “Strike Israel, we’ll do the rest on the streets.”

The one below says: “Israel, hit (the Iranian regime). They don’t have the balls to take revenge.”

This one asks Israel to blow up the Supreme Leader's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s home.

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The "butcher of Tehran" Ebrahim Raisi could show his beard everywhere.

Mahsa Amini was murdered when she showed her hair.

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Persians are an Iranic group but Iran is not Persia!

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Ok let me clear things here , Iran is not Persia , Persians are majority of iranic people but not all of it , kurds , lurs, gilaks, mazandarani and... Still! We should respect iranic people and cherish them individually but equally :3

Remember Iran is still suffering from Islamic republics dictatorship and occupation don't forget about us :) <3

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Actor and Musician Jerry Habibi for D Magazine June 2024, 50th Anniversary:

"THE HARDEST WORKING MAN IN SHOW-BIZ"

He is the first Middle-Eastern (MENA, SWANA) individual profiled for D Magazine in their 50th Anniversary Issue.

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Congratulations to Narges Mohammadi on winning Nobel Peace Prize 2023 l We stand with Iranian women and people until the day when they Escape from the labyrinth of oppression l We remember Iranian Blood and struggle for freedom l Never give up. Keep Fighting

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IRANIAN LEADERSHIP SAYS REVENGE IS COMING FOR "ISRAEL"

📹 Definitive Revenge: a video published by Iranian news outlet, PressTV through their official Telegram channel.

In remarks made during a meeting Wednesday in a speech following his leading of Eid al-Fitr prayers, Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that “Consulates and embassies of any country are regarded as the soil of that country. When they attack our consulate, it means that they have attacked our soil”

“The evil regime made a mistake and it should be punished and will be punished," the Iranian leader added.

“In this year’s Ramadan, the bloody events in Gaza embittered Muslims across the world," the Iranian leader went on, "God’s curse on the occupying Zionist regime which not only failed to stop the killing of women, children and defenseless people during this holy month but also did increase the killings.”

Speaking of Western support for the Israeli entity, Khamenei said “Western governments, over the years, have always helped and supported the Zionist regime, and backed it in international bodies, and provided all kinds of aid to this regime. They should have prevented the regime’s crimes during this disaster. But Western governments did not fulfill their duty.”

Khamenei went on point to Western governments' hypocrisy by claiming to support Gazans but in practice, not only failing to prevent the Israeli regime's war crimes, but actively helping it, “especially the arrogant and cruel governments of the US and the UK," and described Western governments as having revealed the "evil nature" of Western societies.

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[azural83]

I can't believe this bitch actually brings good luck

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Scythians, the ancient inhabitants of Eastern Europe.

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As we commemorate the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of a nationalist government in Iran, we might also reflect on its broader implications — seven continuous decades of authoritarian rule.

The Mossadegh Project