Dave Rich – The right side of history:
What does it take for a demonstrator, marching through central London, to hold a placard declaring that a regime that maims and blinds young women for the ‘crime’ of wanting to choose how they dress is on the right side of history?
Why is it that so many women on that same march happily chanted “We Stand With Iran” while dressed in a way that would see them beaten and imprisoned by that same Iranian regime, and despite all the horrors it perpetrates on its own people, most of whom would be glad to see the back of it (even if they don’t welcome Israeli and American bombs)?
It was entirely predictable that the pro-Palestinian movement that has solidified on our streets and online since October 7 would swing firmly behind Iran once Israel – and now the United States – bombed Iran’s nuclear and other military facilities. That the Iranian regime hangs gay men from cranes was never going to stop Owen Jones from choosing the Iranian side in this war. Any discussions about the true intentions of Iran’s nuclear programme, the state of international negotiations, and the possible ways this conflict now plays out are a distraction from the only thing that matters: the belief that Israel is always in the wrong, that its actions are never justified, and that everything it does is a crime of inhumane cruelty that exceeds rational explanation. All else flows from that; all is justified in opposition to it….
Shorter version:
I almost typed “I can’t quite believe that some so-called leftists support the Iranian regime” but then I realised I’d be lying. Absolute bellends.
— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) June 23, 2025
Mick Hartley 
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