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[forevermorallylucky]

Being from Greece makes a lot of the arguments people give on why Israel should be destroyed sound even more ridiculous and weird. (especially when these people are also fellow greeks) ''Israel is an ethno state!!!''- You mean a nation state, and yes, so is Greece

''The founding of Israel was based on displacement of Palestinians''- Look, I don't want to minimize that at all because people losing their homes is fucking terrible but that doesn't mean the solution is expelling Israelis now. There was a population exchange between Greece and Tuurkey in 1922. Both sides ethnically cleansed people. It was a terrible thing to do. But both Turkey and Greece exist now as two seperate states with clearly defined borders (if you ignore some shit erdogan tries to pull in the agean). And you don't question Greece's or Turkey's right to not be wiped off.

''Israeli identity is fake because it was based on smth that happened 3000 years ago!!!''- Ok sorry to break it to you but us Greeks have made our entire national identity revolve around who we were 3000 years ago. And if you want to argue abt fakeness of identity I would argue ours was a less organic one. Jewish people maintained the same religion and basic belief systems for 3000 years. They continuously felt the connection with Eretz Yisrael. We switched to Orthodox christianity from whatever 12 god shit we had, we lost most of our literacy that allowed us to keep tpuch with ancient texts, we embraced so many customs from the Ottomans and YET it was still valid when we tried to reclaim our ancient greek identity to build a nation partly on the basis of that

''European colonial powers helped prop up Israel which means it is an imperialistic state!''- Do you think Greece got independence or gained more land purely through OUR military strength lol?

BTW one of the reasons i support a 2 state solution so much is bcs I think us and Turkey did a relatively fine job at accepting that although both turkish and greek populations have historically resided in both greek areas and asia minor (which today is turkey) there needs to be a compromise so that we both live in peace.

[disfiguredgrace]

yeah, of course marjane satrapi supported israel and condemned antisemitism you fucking idiots.

you plainly don’t know and don’t care about policy or relations in the middle east, cause if you did, you would know that iranians are skeptical if not outright critical of the palestinian national movement. cause it’s fucking bankrolled by their tyrannical government who rapes and murders teenage girls for showing their hair. go to hell

[insert-some-url]

I think Islamic republic’s most clever move for surviving all these years was creating the “fake opposition” aka the “saderati”. They cultivated certain people as Iran human rights activists who seemingly oppose the regime but when you really look into their actions it’s not the case. These people mostly appear in leftist circles and pretend to be open minded. They go on and on about “symbolic protests” against the regime but never support any solution that can actually topple the regime and free Iran.

Even for us Iranians it’s sometimes hard to recognize these fake activists but when you analyze their actions throughout the years the patterns start to show up.

Unfortunately these fake activists easily become the “representatives of Iran” since the garble the exact lies leftists in the west want to hear so it’s important to keep this note about the regime’s exported actors

As someone who used to support many of these fake activists I will personally never trust anyone who used to work in the regime’s media machine anymore until proven that they support the destruction of the regime

https://x.com/thatmelikaagain/status/2063957211634937946?s=46

[and-yetitmoves]

[loveandsoon]

It is deeply disturbing and inhumane how we have started to trivialize the word "Nazi." You cannot just label anyone who disagrees with you a Nazi.

I grew up mostly in Germany, and the history of National Socialism was a core part of my education. We visited concentration camps. We saw the raw, unfiltered footage captured by the Allies. We saw what the Nazis inflicted upon humanity. And I deliberately say humanity, because their victims -whether they were Jews, queer people, disabled individuals, or Roma and Sinti -were, first and foremost, human beings.

If you are reading this and you belong to the crowd that throws the word "Nazi" around just to insult the opposition, these words are for you: the real Nazis started just like this. They began by denouncing "the others." They were utterly convinced of their own moral superiority. They began to view those with different ideas as subhuman, eventually stating out loud that these people had no right to exist. They systematically silenced and destroyed the opposition long before they began mass-murdering Jews and millions of others in the KZ/KLs.

So ask yourself this: are you actually informed about what you are saying, or are you just parroting what someone else said online?

Personally, I am a history enthusiast. I read up on the facts before I challenge someone politically. And yes, I will absolutely call you out if you think it’s acceptable to trivialize the Holocaust, side with the IRGC, support terrorist organizations, or spread antisemitism. If you are a racist, a homophobe, or standing against humanity, you are not my friend. And I will use every piece of historical evidence we have to show that your worldview is twisted, and that you are hallucinating dangerous conspiracy theories as reality.

It is never too late to realize that you were wrong, or that you spread ignorant claims out of misinformation -as long as you reflect on it and actually engage with history. It is human to make mistakes, but it is not acceptable to stick to false narratives just to escape cognitive dissonance.

Let’s be absolutely clear: it is perfectly valid to criticize the actions of the Israeli government or its politicians. Lean into facts, argue about policies -that is standard, necessary political discourse in any democratic society. What is not acceptable is shifting from political critique to claiming that Israel as a whole has no right to exist, or weaponizing terms like "Zionist" to label Israelis and those advocating for Israelis and Jewish people as Nazis, monsters, or genocide-loving sadists.

Why? Because by doing so, you are stripping millions of individual human beings of their fundamental right to safety and self-determination and you are lazily applying monstrous labels to an entire collective you don’t even know, while reflexively attacking anyone who advocates for basic human decency and Jewish safety as if they themselves were complicit in a government's actions.

Yes, Israel is a democracy, and like in any democracy, citizens hold political responsibility and express a wide range of deeply controversial views. You can fiercely debate their choices, their votes, and their mindsets. But a population's right to exist in safety is not a reward for 'good behavior' or political alignment. It is an absolute, unconditional human right. Why shouldn't they have the right to their own country? A place where people (and yes, it is a diverse population, but let’s look at the core principle) can form a community and simply feel safe especially when looking back at history and seeing how this population has been persecuted.

Ultimately, you cannot claim to be advocating for human rights while simultaneously declaring an entire state illegitimate and painting millions of ordinary citizens as collective monsters.

No matter which country you look at on this planet, there will always be terrible people -that is an unfortunate reality in every single nation. To claim that Israel is somehow an exception to this rule, and that an entire population is uniquely evil, is plain stupid. It is a textbook form of prejudice.

Human rights are either universal, applying to every single human being regardless of geography, or they are nothing but a hypocritical weapon used to mask selective hatred.

[insert-some-url]

islamic republic is the starting another war but you will never see any “activists” hold “no war” demonstrations now. So what happened is war a good thing only when the terrorist regime starts it? Where are those hypocrites pretending to care about children and human rights and what not???

[professional-giver-uper]

Hello friends.

Today I was talking to my parents and I just had to sit with some new revelations about the current economy that honestly terrified me. I feel like just saying the percentage of the inflation is making it hard for everyone to realise the almost dystopian crisis the people in Iran are going through.

A single bag of chips is now 120,000 toman.

The fruit we bought 7 months ago for less than 100,000 per KG is now over 400,000 per KG. Literally paying 4 times more for the exact same amount of produce.

I see people posting their recipt from grocery stores—the totals are through the roof. People keep saying their monthly salaries are not enough to get them through the month and it's gone in the first couple of days in the month.

This is only the financial situation. Sharia law is going strong. Islamic republic's goons are walking around and freely harrassing and abusing women who choose not to wear the hijab.

Do you remember all the hijabless women reporting from IRGC support rallies, talking about how women had freedom to choose what they want to wear? Yeah a fucking lie.

On top of all this, the country is in fucking shambles. The government's mishandling of resources brought us here: dried-up rivers and lakes, electricity out for hours every day even in 50 degrees weather, dust stroms, water outage... you name it, we have it.

I am terrified for the future of my people if we have any to consider that is.

[susanoos-wife]

[for-hiraeth]

Iran protests

Photographers and people are kept unknown due to the security of the protesters' identity.

A man sits on an office chair in the middle of the street, after setting a governmental office on fire; Ilaam city.

A man celebrating their victory after setting a governmental grocery store on fire. (The bags of "7$ rice per month" are torn and that is rice all over the ground. "We are protesting, not begging"); Malekshahi county

An arrestd young boy in the police car, feeling victorious even when he's arrested; location unknown.

A man using a gas-filled fire extinguisher to set the police on fire; Hormozgan.

Teenage girls sitting still in front of the police; city unknown.

A girl and a boy, standing in front of the police together, location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

A man sitting in front of the armed police, alone. Location unknown. (Quality enhanced by AI)

people of Abdanaan celebrating their victory after taking over a governmental state, holding up a man sitting on an office chair.

3 of the photos above are enhanced by AI so the details are visiblble, but no other changes.

We die, we fight, and we know that after this rain of blood, we'll see the blue sky.

[insert-some-url]

And the fact that most of these brave people were probably killed by the islamic regime just shatters my heart…

[loveandsoon]

How lovely seeing the so called LGBTQ+ community not caring about their peers in other countries like Iran where they are being killed/erased.

Is that the activism we're always praising especially at pride month?

[oldpaintings]

Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath), 1836 by Camille Corot (French, 1796--1875)

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

For all the activists screaming about being "kidnapped" by the Israelis, they sure aren't giving a single fuck about the ones that genuinely have been and are in actual danger.

Hello?, everyone that didn't shut up about the people the Israelis stopped, where the fuck are you? These ones are in genuine danger and you're completely silent.

Can't use it to scream about Israel so fuck these people I suppose.

[loveandsoon]

It’s pride month and yet I haven’t seen a single purple green blue haired pro Palestine leftist that went to the anti Iran war protests talking about all the LGBTQ+ community getting slaughtered in Iran right now and since 47 years - hypocrite posers

[everything-art]

"The End of the Quest" (1921) by Frank Dicksee

[professional-giver-uper]

Happy pride month.

A 26 years old trans woman from Sanandaj was brutally stabbed to death and her body mutilated. The attackers remain unidentified.

In Iran, the reality is stark:

Same-sex relations remain entirely criminalized under the death penalty.

Trans people face a rigid, medicalized binary system with zero legal protections against hate crimes.

Assailants operate with total cultural and legal impunity.

This is only a brief glimpse into the reality of what being queer under the Islamic republic is like.

[pmamtraveller]

Two Dancers, by Salvador Dalí (1949)

[oldermenfucker]

please go watch this video. I’ve heard horrors of what happened to the protesters’ bodies (some not even returned to the families until now FOUR months later)

[insert-some-url]

Knowing the islamic republic regime’s atrocities this shit is right up their alley

For context: This lady makes wigs and is married to an Iranian guy. She says recently there’s been a sudden influx of Iranian hair in America and she guesses the regime cuts off the hair of murdered Iranian protesters and sells it to other countries

The bodies of many murdered are never recovered. We’ve heard reports of murdered Iranian women missing their uterus…

This evil regime is making profit even of our dead bodies!

I hope every leftist whitewashing this regime burns!