LAST week, hard-left activists broke into an RAF base in Oxfordshire and caused millions of pounds worth of damage by spraying red paint into the engines of two military planes in protest at the UK’s support of Israel over the war in Gaza.
Palestine Action, the extremist group responsible — soon to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation — is supported by dozens of pro-Palestinian organisations.
AFPProtestors clashing with the police at a pro-Palestine rally in London yesterday[/caption]
Shutterstock EditorialPaloma Faith, a singer known for her hard-leftist views, was also out marching at the weekend[/caption]
Yesterday a protest in support of Palestine Action took place in central London.
Chants from organisations such as the Stop the War Coalition, Cage, and Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) called for destruction of Israel.
Some supporters were wearing Hamas headbands, their placards adorned with swastikas, yet clearly believed themselves to be on the right side of history.
The former head of Cage — previously known as Caged Prisoners — is pro-Taliban.
Its research director, Asim Qureshi, once described ISIS executioner Jihadi John as a “beautiful young man”.
Only hours after the horrendous Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023, Stop the War held a protest outside London’s Israeli Embassy.
The campaign group, whose co-founder has expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, is clearly not against war when the casualties are Israelis.
It is deeply concerning to see that, since America bombed Iran’s key nuclear sites this weekend, the hashtag #TeamIran has been plastered across social media accounts
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MEND is an extremist organisation that has expressed support for the killing of British and American soldiers in Iraq.
Paloma Faith, a singer known for her hard-leftist views, was also out marching at the weekend.
According to her, “silence is complicity”, regarding the attacks on Gaza.
Yet she has never publicly condemned the Hamas attack on Israeli citizens that began this deadly phase of war.
But these protesters aren’t just concerned with going into bat for anti-Israel terrorists.
It is deeply concerning to see that, since America bombed Iran’s key nuclear sites this weekend, the hashtag #TeamIran has been plastered across social media accounts, apparently signalling a ramping up of extremism within the pro-Palestine movement.
This clash between left-wing Utopia — a luxury belief that will never happen — and the cold, hard reality of war leaves me wondering just what kind of a world #TeamIran supporters wish to live in.
It is highly disturbing to see the terror attacks, kidnappings and brutal gang rapes carried out by Hamas condoned, and even celebrated.
This unholy alliance between Western far-left and Islamic far-right is as grotesque as it is counter-productive.
The reality of the Iranian regime is that anyone daring to protest against it is jailed and often tortured.
Stonings and hangings
Mobile phones and satellite television are blocked. The media is heavily censored. Free speech does not exist.
Security forces have charged at protesters, and used lethal force against them.
Women are treated as second-class citizens in every aspect of public and private life. They are stoned for adultery, and stoned for being raped
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Young women have been blinded, and even shot in the eye and chest, for the crime of not wearing the compulsory hijab — or beaten for showing a strand of hair. Teenagers have been jailed for dancing.
State-enforced punishment for dissidents includes flogging and amputation.
Women are treated as second-class citizens in every aspect of public and private life. They are stoned for adultery, and stoned for being raped.
Iran is one of the few countries where homosexual acts are punishable by death, and gay men have been publicly hanged.
The idea that a person can be trapped in a body of the wrong sex is, however, acceptable to clerics, because this means lesbians and gay men can be turned “straight” — by forcing them to live as the opposite sex.
Sex-reassignment surgery is not just allowed, it is financially supported by the government.
An average of 270 state-sponsored sex reassignment operations are carried out annually in Iran — a number surpassed only in Thailand.
Perhaps this explains why trans activist India Willoughby uses hashtag #TeamIran.
Support a death cult
When he — and I make no bones about using that pronoun — proclaimed on X that he could “live in Iran”, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling then offered to pay for his flight.
To support #TeamIran is to support anti-Semitism.
Many, if not most, Iranian citizens oppose the regime and its rulers
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It is to defend the hanging of political prisoners and gays from cranes in the streets.
It is to promote the public violent oppression of women.
It is to support a death cult.
Many, if not most, Iranian citizens oppose the regime and its rulers.
On Sunday, around 500 activists gathered outside the Iranian Embassy in London less than 24 hours after the US air strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.
Some said they had been “grateful” to Israel for attacking the “oppressive” Iranian regime. One protester chanted: “Let the bombs fall.”
Expressing solidarity with the Iranian people suffering under their oppressive government means speaking out against the regime, rather than defending it.
For people in Britain, able to enjoy the freedom and democracy that allows them to publicly protest, this support of a totalitarian regime is as mad as it is amoral.
The stupidity and ignorance of anyone who says they are of the Left, yet supports a nation that denies women and girls their basic human rights, is beyond my comprehension.
The moral bankruptcy of the #TeamIran crowd should now be wholeheartedly condemned by everyone who holds democracy dear.
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