Wake up today, February 28th, and you are watching history unfold. With the combined forces of the United States and Israel, monumental joint military strikes are currently being carried out against the IRGC. They are tactically dismantling the regime’s military infrastructure, missile launchers, and leadership compounds as humanely as possible without targeting any civilians to ensure everyone’s safety. 

For the world, and especially for the Iranian people, this is a phenomenal breakthrough. President Trump even explicitly called for the Iranian people to seize their destiny and take back their government. If you look on social media right now, you can see Iranians dancing in the streets, praising God, and celebrating because this might finally be their chance at freedom, which genuinely warms my heart.

But then, you take a look at the woke, performative activists here in America, and they are back at it again.

Instead of cheering for the liberation of the Iranian people, they are having a collective meltdown (shocking, I know). They are flooding timelines claiming that chaos and panic is erupting in the United States, screaming that President Trump is evil, and insisting that Israel and the U.S. aren’t doing this out of humanitarian concern.

The nerve of these people is absolutely outstanding and truly, nothing makes my blood boil more.

They deliberately ignore the reality of what is actually happening: Israel and the U.S. are surgically striking military zones and taking out imminent threats, while the Iranian regime is recklessly firing retaliatory missiles, sending Israeli civilians running for bomb shelters.

These “activists” do not care about human rights. They refuse to watch the videos of Iranians dancing in the streets celebrating because they are completely brainwashed. All they care about is hating and blaming everything on Trump and Israel. Truly, everything. It is pathetic.

And this localized meltdown over today’s strikes is just a symptom of a much larger, deeply ingrained hypocrisy playing out across our country.

Walk onto almost any major college campus in the United States today, and you will see a familiar, exhausting spectacle. From the Ivy Leagues on the East Coast to state schools across the country, university courtyards have been overtaken by tents, megaphones, and furious students staging demonstrations for whatever the trending grievance of the week happens to be—Anti-ICE, “No Kings,” and, of course, the ever-present “Free Palestine” protests and riots.

While organizers love to frame these gatherings to the media as “peaceful protests,” the reality on the ground is entirely different. They may start out as protests, but they are highly volatile mobs that get aggressive very quickly the second they encounter anything or anybody who disagrees with their narrative and won’t join their movement. They will shut down libraries, block Jewish students from going to class, and demand total institutional divestment from Israel with militant hostility.

But look a little closer at this nationwide activist machine, and you will notice a glaring, deafening omission: you will not see a single encampment, protest, or banner for Iran.

Right now, Iran is bleeding. Since massive civilian-led protests erupted against the Islamic Republic in late December 2025, the regime has responded with what is now recognized as one of the largest and most brutal massacres in the modern history of Iran. While the Iranian government officially acknowledges over 3,000 deaths, independent medical and intelligence estimates suggest the actual death toll could exceed 30,000. Human rights organizations report that over 50,000 individuals, including hundreds of children, have been violently arrested across multiple cities. The regime has launched a horrifying campaign of mass arbitrary arrests, severe torture, and fast-tracked sham trials. Dozens of protesters—including minors—are currently at immediate risk of execution as the government attempts to crush the dissent.

These college students brand themselves as the ultimate, uncompromising champions of global human rights. Yet, as tens of thousands of Iranians are slaughtered in cold blood on the streets of Tehran simply for demanding basic freedoms, the campus activists sit in total silence. Why?

The answer exposes the dark rot at the core of these campus movements: they only care about human rights when they don’t have to agree with Israelis or Jews.

The Iranians and Persians who have fled their oppressive, tyrannical government know exactly what it will take to bring the regime down and restore Iran to the beautiful, thriving country it used to be. They also know something that completely shatters the fragile campus activist worldview: Israelis share that exact same hope for them. You see it online and at rallies across the globe every day—a profound, unbreakable solidarity between the Free Iran movement and the Jewish community.

And that is the core reason why the campus mob refuses to participate.

These student activists know that Israelis and Jews overwhelmingly support the Iranian people. And because of their unyielding hatred for Israel, they refuse to touch any cause that Zionists champion. After a long day of screaming for a global intifada, harassing Jewish peers, and distributing pamphlets arguing that 10/7 was a legitimate form of “resistance,” they simply do not feel obligated to fight for a cause that Jews also support. It is hypocrisy in its purest, most toxic form.

Personally, I haven’t met a single radical “Free Palestine” activist who supports the Free Iran movement—physically or digitally. The cognitive dissonance is staggering, but it shouldn’t shock us. As we already know, the vast majority of the people who attend these protests have absolutely no idea what they are actually marching for anyway. They read the headlines of the flashy infographics, follow the crowd, and do what the algorithm tells them. They are far more interested in performative outrage than actual liberation.

Their silence on Iran proves once and for all that their encampments and demands for divestment were never actually about human rights, liberation, or fighting oppression. Their activism is entirely conditional, and their condition is simple: it must be fueled by a blatant hatred for Israelis and Jews that they simply cannot get over.

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