Mick Hartley

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We live in a time of egregious comparisons to the Holocaust when the Holocaust is repellently abused and minimized by cynical cretins – radiohosts, podders, politicians- to criticize anything from vaccination to ICE raids. But here is a comparison that stands in its scale and horror: in size and horror this does resemble the two days of Babi Yar near Kiev in Sept 1941 where 33,000 Jews were killed. It is also worth pointing out that an entire progressive movement arose against the autocracy of the Shah. And his was an autocracy. But in his forty year one reign, only around 3000 people were killed, mainly in the last year before his downfall. This week alone would have murdered in the streets, torturechambers, hospitals of Iran. It is very striking that the UN has barely commented on this; its sec-general has been shamed publically by dissident @AlinejadMasih; many countries have refused to vote against Iran; many of those formerly known as ‘progressives’ are silent or supporting the regime – incredibly; some famous so-called ‘humanitarian’ NGOs – many of them organizations i revered since my childhood; hello Amnesty where is your other ball now – are silent. In doing so, they have discredited any claim to humanitarian credentials and exposed themselves.