(JEWISH GROUP) Pro-Palestine Activists Fell for Iran's Propaganda

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!)

Israel’s attack on Iran has elicited a predictable response from groups that identify as “pro-Palestine.” At protests in several Western cities—some merely anti-war or anti-interventionist, others explicitly anti-Zionist or pro-Iranian—people rushed to criticize the Israeli military action to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. In so doing, they offer succor to a ruthless theocratic regime that has ground its heel upon its own people and brought misery to the entire region for nearly half a century.

By backing various regimes and militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for the death of hundreds of thousands of Arab and Muslim people in the conflicts it has fomented. Iranian meddling in the region has provided Arab dictators such as Syria’s Bashar al-Assad with both the moral and material means to suppress dissent, crush reform, and extend their autocratic rule. The pro-Palestine messaging ignores the fact that a nuclear-armed Iran would be far more belligerent and dangerous than the regime already has been for the past three decades.

For the pro-Palestine lobby to take at face value Tehran’s claim to lead an “Axis of Resistance” against Israel is at best naive, and at worst malignant in a way that can only be described as anti-Semitic. It means accepting that the Islamic Republic’s eliminationist rhetoric about Israel has made it a legitimate advocate for the Palestinian cause. These pro-Palestine voices seem oblivious of the fact that the Palestinian national project for independence and statehood is in ruins, thanks in large part to Iranian influence.

Back in the 1990s, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and political leadership worked to undermine the Oslo peace process by inciting Hamas’s opposition to any settlement that would have led to a two-state solution. Later, they encouraged Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas to carry out suicide bombings inside Israel. Beginning in 2005, Iran increased its arms shipments to Hamas, enabling the group to seize control of Gaza in 2007 and turn it into a one-party Islamist statelet. Iran also financed Hamas’s construction of tunnels in Gaza and provided the group with missile technology, funneled via the smuggling networks that Iran effectively sponsored in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

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[DavidDvorkin]

1. They're already supporting a ruthless, repressive regime that has hurt the cause of Palestinian statehood

That describes Hamas.

Their support of Iran is just another expression of their hatred of Jews and Israel.

[lostincalifornia]

2. no surprise.