Iranian women gathering near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran to celebrate the news of new airstrikes against the Islamic regime.
They are chanting a message to America:
“Keep going. You are doing great”
If you think America is the problem, you have no idea what the world looks like without America. And if you think Israel is the problem, you have no idea what the Middle East looks like without Israel.
That is what they hate, and that is why the hatred starts with the Jews but never ends with the Jews. The Jews are the warning sign. Israel is the warning sign.
When a movement becomes obsessed with destroying the Jewish state, pay attention. When people begin excusing violence against Jews because they believe Jews are too powerful, too privileged, too white, too successful, pay attention. When college students start deciding that some victims deserve sympathy and Jewish victims deserve an asterisk, pay attention. When they tell you every problem in your life is not your fault but someone else’s, and that you don’t have free will, pay attention.
I am telling you, I have seen this movie before. My family fled the first version, and I refuse to let my children live through the sequel.
I want to ask the students screaming “Death to America”, do you have any idea what happens when American values die?
Because I do.
My family fled Iran, a country where freedom died. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.
You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.
You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.
You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.
You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a bread line.
You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.
You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.
I have.
And that’s why I refuse to be quiet.
The fact that no news station will air the speech tonight is all the proof you need that there is a conspiracy between the major media corporations and anti-Trump sentiment .