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I wasn’t there in London yesterday.
My body wouldn’t allow it anymore.
So I watched it from a chair at home,
a war pensioner staring at a screen,
watching thousands march streets
I once marched in uniform.
And honestly… part of me wished I was there.
Just to stand amongst ordinary British people again
without feeling like loving your country
has somehow become something shameful.
Before the march had even begun
they’d already made their minds up about them.
Called them divisive. Dangerous. Extremists.
Yet what I saw on that screen
looked nothing like the picture
being painted before the rally had even begun.
I saw veterans.
Families carrying Union Jacks.
Working people. Pensioners. Young lads singing in the streets.
Ordinary faces the media stopped understanding years ago.
The police barriers stretched across London,
creating sterile zones through the heart of the city,
yet beyond them the streets felt alive again.
You could feel it even through a screen.
Flags moving like waves beneath grey skies.
Crowds packed beneath the shadow of Parliament.
Big Ben standing over it all
like Britain itself was silently watching.
And amongst all the chants, speeches and noise,
one moment stayed with me more than any other.
The prayer.
For a few seconds the shouting disappeared
and something older seemed to hang in the air above London.
Not politics.
Not parties.
Something deeper than that.
That’s what people are really fighting for.
The feeling that the country they grew up loving
is slowly slipping away
while they’re told not to notice.
The strange thing was
they didn’t look angry to me.
They looked united.
Hopeful even.
Like people remembering
they were not alone.
And sitting there watching it all unfold,
I realised something.
A nation rarely dies dramatically.
It fades slowly
when its own people become afraid to defend it.
But yesterday proved something important.
The old spirit is not dead yet.
Not while thousands still march beneath the flag.
Not while veterans still care about this country.
Not while ordinary people still refuse to give up on Britain.
And watching from home,
I realised I was witnessing something deeper.
People trying to hold onto a country
they feel slowly slipping away.
Wow.
Douglas Murray. A single minute.
Give yourself a single minute to listen to this.
This man is something else 👏🏽
Today, right after the call of “Allahu Akbar” at dawn, the regime in Iran, placed a noose around this young man’s neck and kicked the chair from under his feet, so he would struggle, suffocate, and die.
Yes this is happening in 21st century. They executed him because he went to protest with empty hands and said he wanted freedom.
His name is Amirali Mirjafari.
He was only 22 years old.
They called him a “leader” of the protests.
But they never said when he was arrested, how he was tortured, or how he was tried.
Because everything was done in silence, a silence enforced by threats against his family.
They imprisoned him in silence.
They tortured him in silence.
They tried him in silence.
And they executed him in silence.
Dozens of protesters have been executed the same way.
Yet many political leaders in the West, who suddenly worry about “international law”, after a military strike against Ali Khamenei and members of IRGC have not said a single word about these barbaric killings.
Why?
Why is there silence when young civilians are hanged for demanding freedom?
As we wake up this weekend, news of yet another violent attack on Jewish children.
These are just some of the violent acts aimed at Jewish communities in the West this month.
Where is the outrage?
A warning: antisemitism will always bring down the society that tolerates it.
@kingkapoor72 Beautiful!!! Keep going
Tell me about the "Islamophobia".
Tell that to the 7-year-old me, who was forced to wear this (photo on the right) to school every day since she was 7 years old.
Tell the 8-year-old me that she was about to be molested by an adult man in a very conservative neighborhood on her way to school, and that if she didn't run fast enough and the school wasn't close enough, who knows what would happen to her.
Tell me my entire childhood wasn't taken away from me.
Tell me my adolescence in Iran was not filled with terror.
Tell me I wasn't oppressed and abused and that I'm just a "Islamophobe."
Dear antisemites, whether you’re closeted and call yourself an anti Zionist or you’re a proud Jew hater, I have some things to tell you so you can’t say you didn’t know.
Sit down. Some of this will come as a shock to you.
Let’s start with the positive:
- Whoever you are and wherever you are in the world, the Jews have enhanced your life significantly. You might not know it but you’re reading these words on a device that was built, designed, or engineered in Israel. Put it down or shut up.
- The IDF is the most moral army in the world and has done more to minimize civilian death than any army including the army of the country in which you reside.
- Israel is the only country in the Middle East that doesn’t persecute Christians.
- Arabs have more freedom in Israel than any country in the Middle East.
- Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East.
- The Jews and the Jewish state lead the world in many sectors including medicine, technology, and many others.
Now for some inconvenient truths.
- There never was a Palestinian state in the history of the world. The Palestinians are a figment of your imagination. They are Jordanians and Egyptians and the terrorist Yasser Arafat kidnapped (pun intended) the name Palestinian.
- There was never anything even remotely resembling a genocide in Gaza.
- Everything Israel’s enemies accuse Israel of is actually an admission of guilt. The only people guilty of genocide are the ones who attacked Israel on 10/7. The same goes for starvation. Have you seen what the Israeli hostages looked like? Apartheid? Have you tried entering an Arab town in Judea and Samaria? And the list goes on. Whatever they accuse Israel of is exactly what they are guilty of.
- Speaking of Judea and Samaria where the Jews are indigenous, it’s not called the West Bank. The only reason anyone calls it that is because by calling it Judea, they are in essence admitting that that is where Jews originated.
- The Talmud is not a law book. It is a book full of conversations between people, and it was written thousands of years ago. Anything you quote from the Talmud to try and vilify Jews is dishonest and malicious. On the other hand, go listen to any imam and you’ll hear what Islam thinks about those topics. The only difference is that the Imams encourage this behavior in 2026.
- There is no such thing as Jewish terrorists. Comparing some criminals who are condemned by 99% of Jews to millions of Islamic terrorists who are celebrated by billions of Muslims is a lie, but you already knew that.
- Islam doesn’t align with western values and the sooner the west realizes that, the higher the chances they can save themselves from radical Islam.
- If you’re still doubling down on the “I’m not an antisemite, just an anti Zionist”, you are at best a fool but more likely, a full blown Jew hater. Zionism is simply the movement to bring Jews back to their home that’ll provide a safe haven after the Holocaust. If you oppose that, you hate Jews. It’s not so complicated.
- Not a single Jew was in Gaza on 10/7. Israel left Gaza in 2005 and you’d know that if you spent 12 seconds doing research instead of spewing empty slogans like From the River to the Sea and Globalize the Intifada.
- Hamas is a genocidal terror organizations comprised of rapists and pedophiles. If you can’t condemn them loudly and clearly, well, you reach your own conclusion.
- Every enemy of the Jews throughout history has disappeared and you will follow.
- The Jewish people are more resilient than you can imagine. Nothing you, or anyone else can do to rid the world of Jews or the state of Israel.
- The Palestinian authority is the same as Hamas but with a suit and a tie. They never wanted a state. All they want are dead Jews. Don’t believe me? Go read their charter.
- Any accusation of sex crimes against the IDF is 100% false and yes, that video is fake. Hamas, on the other hand, are full blown pedos.
- When an innocent life is lost as a result of Israel’s actions, assuming Hamas didn’t cause that death by using innocents as human shields, Israel will always apologize. Israel’s enemies, on the other hand, target civilians.
- Israel uses its weapons to protect its people. Israel’s enemies use their people to protect their weapons.
- Hamas has overwhelming support in the streets of Gaza and Judea and Samaria. The vast majority of people there are not innocent.
- Any country that would have experienced a 10/7 would have flattened Gaza completely. Israel warned civilians with flyers and text messages before attacking in a place where there are civilians thereby eliminating the element of surprise. No other army would do that.
- The Quran is jam packed with verses calling for Muslims to kill all infidels and to them an infidel is anyone who is not Muslim.
- In Gaza, they murder minorities including LGBTQ, women, and anyone who doesn’t support Hamas.
- The only colonialists in the Middle East are Arabs. Try opening a map and you can’t miss it.
- Israel wants nothing other than to live in peace. Israel has no interest in conquering Gaza, Lebanon, or anywhere else. All Israelis want is to be left alone.
- The Jewish people constantly punch above their weight. Go see how many Nobel prizes Jews have won and you’ll see what I mean.
- The more you hate on Jews, the “Jewier” we get.
- If you protested on behalf of Gaza and remained silent about Iran, you’re a hypocrite and an antisemite.
- If you draw an equal sign between Hamas and Israel or between Nazis and Israel, your moral compass is broken.
- If you can’t clearly spot the difference between pro Israel marches and anti Israel marches, there is only one possible explanation. You don’t want to see it.
- If you’re ok with tens of Muslim and Christian countries but oppose one tiny Jewish state, well, yea, you’re an antisemite.
- If you believe that the Palestinians have a rich history, ask yourself why you can’t name a single leader of theirs before Arafat or why you can’t name a single accomplishment of theirs.
- If you hear a Christian saying ‘Bless the lord”, or a Jew saying “Baruch Hashem”, you smile. If you hear a Muslim saying Allah Akbar, you run for your life. Ask yourself why that is.
- Not all Muslims are terrorists but nearly all terrorists are Muslims.
- A phobia is the irrational fear of something. Hundreds of millions of muslims worldwide hate the west and will do anything to kill infidels. Fearing that is anything but irrational. Therefore Islamophobia is a ridiculous term.
- Why isn’t there a term called Jewphobia or Christian phobia? Why only Islamophobia? Interesting, huh?
- Israelis are heroes and IDF soldiers are superheroes. Israel’s enemies are cowards who hide behind civilians and commit sex crimes against women, children, and the elderly.
- Epstein has zero to do with Israel or Judaism. In fact, he was anti Israel. Saying he was a Mossad agent is actually comical.
- There was never a day in history in which there were zero Jews in the land of Israel. Not one!
- Israel didn’t kick Arabs out of their houses in 48. Israel was established, the Arab countries attacked and told those Arabs living in Israel to leave their houses and they’d come back after Israel was destroyed. That didn’t work out so well for them. The Nakba is a historical fabrication.
- Arabs walk around freely in Israel but a Jew who enters an Arab town will be immediately attacked and lynched.
- Catering to Islamists is never a good policy and it’ll come back to bite you.
- Tucker is an antisemite. Candace is an antisemite. AOC is an antisemite. Rashida Tlaib is an antisemite. Ilhan Omar is antisemite. Deal with it.
- Calling for America to end foreign aid to Israel is a declaration that you’re a Jew hater. That aid is mostly spent on American products and also to purchase defense technology that saved millions of lives, Muslim and Jewish. If you oppose that and want dead Jews, you’re a raging antisemite.
- AIPAC is not the biggest lobby organization in America. Not by a long shot.
- The top terrorist organizations worldwide are all Islamist.
- Tragically, just because someone in Gaza is a certain age or gender doesn’t make them innocent.
- Jews don’t control the banks, the courts, the media, the weather, or anything else. If you disagree, you’re not only an antisemite, you’re also a fool.
- The UN resolutions against Israel are of zero significance. The UN is an entity that is rotten to its core. The same is true for the ICC, Amnesty, and many other clearly anti Jewish organizations.
- If you’re of the opinion that Israel should give back land that it won in wars it did not start but you don’t think your country should return land, you’re a hypocrite and an antisemite.
- Qatar is an enemy state to Israel and to America. If you think otherwise, open your eyes and listen to their leaders. The same is obviously true for Iran.
- A large percentage of those chanting against Israel have no idea what river and what sea or what the word intifada means.
Ok, I’ll stop here but let there be no mistake, there are a lot more things that should be on this list.
When it comes to the Jews and the Jewish state, even the smartest people somehow believe and spread lies that are not, in any way, based on reality.
Now you know. You’re welcome.
Am Yisrael Chai!! 🇮🇱✡️
The Jews aren’t going anywhere. Not now. Not ever!
Get over it.
Over a quarter of a million people out in Munich in support of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi and the Iranian nation 🇮🇷
Uncle Lindsey is a great man. If you think otherwise, you hate freedom.
They call it “culture wars.”
But when a government defines cultural nationalism as “far right,” that is not a debate.
That is an attempt to delegitimise national identity itself.
@BenHabib6's speech on culture, live now 👇
This is Mehrdad Moshtaghi - a 27 year old civil engineer and Iranian freedom fighter who joined the protests to demand a free Iran.
On 9th January, while unarmed, he was shot dead by the Islamic occupation forces.
Remember his name. 🇮🇷
Yes
To the incredible, unbreakable people of Iran fighting through hell right now! You’ve got my rock-solid, never-back-down support. I’m promising you that straight up, no BS. You’re in the thick of this nightmare, dealing with crackdowns, loss, and fear, but don’t think for a second the world or I will just scroll past and forget. This isn’t some viral story that fades away. Your courage, your refusal to bow, your straight-up heroism in standing for freedom.
I’ve lived in South Korea, where folks fought tooth and nail for democracy against impossible odds, and in Scotland, with its own history of holding the line for identity and rights.
No way am I backing off or getting distracted from standing with you the most stunning, brilliant, warm-hearted, culturally rich people out there. Persian culture? It’s pure magic. Your language is absolute poetry: Here are a few that always get me:
* Doret begardam — “Let me circle around you” — like you’d literally orbit someone you love because they’re that precious. Total devotion in four words.
* Delam barat misuze — “My heart burns for you” — not just “I’m sorry,” but this deep, fiery empathy that hits you right in the chest.
* Eshgham or Jaanam — “My love” or “my soul/life”
* Gol posht o ru nadāreh — “A flower has no front or back” — meaning you’re beautiful from every damn angle. Perfect compliment.
“Posht-e har tāriki, roshani ast” — “Behind every darkness, there is light.” Even now, it reminds us the dawn’s coming.
Your poets like Hafez and Rumi gave the world endless beauty about love, spirit, and resilience. You’re not alone in this. I see you, I respect the hell out of you, and I’ll keep raising my voice for your freedom until it’s won. Hang tough, beautiful Iran.
This weekend proved something important:
@_AdvanceUK UK isn’t small, it’s connected with huge support.
The room was full.
The support was real.
The momentum is growing. 🇬🇧
Now let’s do something smart.
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To the Iranian diaspora,
I want to thank you - not with the language of protocol, but with the language of the heart.
Standing with you today before 10 Downing Street was an honour I will carry with me for a long time. The warmth, strength, and generosity you offered were overwhelming - not because they were loud, but because they were grounded in something deeper: conviction. You did not gather out of anger alone. You gathered out of love - for your country, for those you have lost, and for a future that has been denied for far too long.
What moved me most was not only the scale of the crowd, but the moral clarity that bound you together. You stood not just to condemn a regime of terror, but to affirm life, dignity, and freedom. You stood for those who cannot stand openly in Iran. You stood for the imprisoned, the silenced, the murdered - and you did so with courage that no intimidation can erase.
The call you made today - for the proscription of the IRGC and for the end of a regime built on fear - was not a cry of desperation. It was a declaration of resolve. It said: we are still here, we remember, and we will not be trained into silence. That message was heard - not only by those behind the walls of power, but by all who still believe that conscience matters.
I was deeply humbled by the reception you gave me, and by the trust you placed in me to speak alongside you. Please know this: your struggle is not invisible, your pain is not forgotten, and your courage is not isolated. History is shaped by moments like this - when people refuse to be erased and choose instead to be counted.
Thank you for your strength, your dignity, and your unwavering belief that Iran can be free. I stand with you today, and I will continue to stand with you tomorrow - until freedom is no longer a demand, but a reality.
I'm not a young man anymore. I'm not an idealist.
But what we have witnessed in Iran has eroded my faith in my fellow man.
In the face of evil some of us become beasts, others become cowards, but the heroes always pay the ultimate price.
“There are moments in history when the moral imperative to act is so strong that the weight of inaction becomes unbearable. This is one of those moments.”
Prince Reza Pahlavi
Washington, D.C.
January 16, 2026
@parthianempire @GhorbaniiNiyak @metpoliceuk Absolutely shocking. No words. I'm so sickened by this.
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STATEMENT BY ADVANCE UK
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE UNFOLDING IRANIAN REVOLUTION
Advance UK stands with the millions of people in Iran revolting against the country’s Islamic dictatorship. These are brave people, sacrificing their welfare and lives for freedom. They deserve our support.
Full Statement : https://t.co/Hr5ZFRVDDH
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