The Islamic regime has executed all these people in recent weeks.
Their only crime: demanding freedom.
Hundreds of others, including women and children, are set to be next.
And the world remains silent.
Every morning I write about someone Iran just executed, within minutes, a message arrives a mother, a sister, a friend, begging me to write about their loved one who is on the death row. Before it's too late.
This is why I want to write before the execution of this young woman, not after. Arghavan Fallahi. 24 years old. Evin Prison. Sentenced to death.
Judge Salavati one of Iran's most notorious hanging judges, sentenced her under "Baghi," armed rebellion.
During months in solitary confinement, she was subjected to severe psychological torture and pressure to make forced confessions. But she refused. So they sentenced her to death anyway.
Fellow female prisoners who were with Arghavan inside Evin say her situation is urgent. The torture has left her with severe psychological trauma and physical illness. She is not just facing the death sentence, she is suffering right now, inside that cell. But is still alive and is still time to save her life.
Please join me and help us Iranians to say her name now and demand international community and the leader leaders of the world to put pressure on these that republic to stop them from executing her and other political prisoners.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Eyal Waldman is a decent and honorable man whom I have gotten to know closely since October 7, and was one of the first Israelis to reach out to me online once I had grown a presence following the tragedy of my family’s killing in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes. Despite losing his daughter to Hamas’s heinous massacre on October 7, he has been relentlessly pursuing radically pragmatic initiatives, and we have both been in multiple spaces, conferences, events, and arenas to discuss ways in which Palestinians and Israelis can both have safety, security, self-determination, and freedom. He not only supports peace and the inevitable need to establish a Palestinian self-rule because it is the moral thing to do, but he also recognizes it is imperative for protecting Israel’s long-term interests and needs as a Jewish and democratic state.
The blind hatred by the so-called “pro-Palestine” activists against Eyal here is typical behavior of brownshirt-esque militias who simply hear someone’s identity and react blindly despite his goodwill gesture and outreach. The “pro-Palestine” mafia fails to appreciate that there will never be a free or independent Palestine without making alliances with broad segments in Israel, including in government, civil society, business, and faith communities. You don’t have to agree with everything Eyal says or believes to acknowledge that he is a decent, honorable, and a class-A human being, the embodiment of pursuing peace and reconciliation across entrenched narratives and deep personal trauma.
We have become so habituated to the algorithmized cortisol feedback loop of internet feeds, that the content and context of information doesnt even matter anymore; just the framing, who is presenting it, and whether or not it signals support/criticism for your tribe's cause.
Cosplaying morons have no idea what would happen to them in an Islamic country, or that Palestine they are so keen to dress up and dance for, if they act like this. The sheer privilege behind being this stupid is mind boggling to me.
My main problem with this is how utterly inoffensive it is. Whoever looks upon it believes that it's saying something about their opposition, and not themselves. It flatters people into believing *they* are the free thinkers in a world blinded by ideology, and nobody is ever forced to grapple with any complex issues or do any sort of soul searching. This is why Banksy isn't truly counter culture and is not dangerous or transgressive in any way. The art just reinforces whatever you already believe about yourself.
This sort of framing only makes sense if you are making a great deal of effort to ignore the inconvenient fact that the latest stabbing attack comes after a campaign of firebombing over the last few weeks targeted at the Jewish community.
Marches and banners in the UK calling for ‘intifada’ haven’t helped anyone in Gaza. They’ve put anti-semitism at the heart of identity politics and made this country unsafe for Jews. It’s shameful.
If you say that something is fake, a false flag, a setup, a hoax, a psyop, or staged before you have gathered any evidence and had a chance to analyze it, you’re radicalized, and that radicalization is impacting your ability to assess reality.
Although we don’t yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It’s also a sobering reminder of the courage and sacrifice that U.S. Secret Service Agents show every day. I’m grateful to them – and thankful that the agent who was shot is going to be okay.
the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce.
I don't think people quite understand how up until even as short a time ago as the early 2010s, this sort of language was only really expressed publicly on the far right, among those with Neo-Nazi views.
Now it's openly, blatantly being expressed outside Parliament.
I’m as pro-Ukraine, anti-Putin as you could ever find and could never ever imagine treating Russian civilians like this, just going about their business.
Rats and monsters. Really interesting how classic antisemitic language of Jews as demonic types, or as rats, is repurposed.
If you were born in the Polish People’s Republic, like me, you don’t romanticize the Soviet system… you remember it.
You remember shortages, ration cards, political repression, and a system where speaking freely could cost you everything. You remember what it meant to live under a regime imposed from Moscow, not chosen by the people.
For millions across Poland and Eastern Europe, the fall of the USSR wasn’t a “catastrophe”… it was liberation.
It meant the end of censorship.
It meant the ability to travel.
It meant the return of political freedom and national sovereignty.
Calling that one of the “greatest catastrophes” of the 20th century isn’t just wrong… it ignores the lived reality of those who suffered under it.
It’s easy to romanticize systems you’ve never had to live under. It’s a lot harder to explain that view to the people who actually did.
@yvonneridley It might be worth bothering to obtain the facts of a matter, before mindlessly retweeting egregiously misframed events and spewing deranged and inflammatory rhetoric about an entire people.
The confirmation bias is off the chart.
More importantly - do you even care?
Heartbreaking moment, but powerful.
Look at Kosar Eftekhari. The Islamic regime shot her eye out and blinded her during the Women, Life, Freedom revolution. Now she is in Germany, shocked that people there defend the same regime, the same IRGC. She’s asking them: Who are you defending? She shows them her eye, see what they did. Why defend them?
I’ve known Kosar since she was a teenager in Iran, part of my #WhiteWednesdays campaign against forced hijab. She’s a hero, not a victim but here she cries from the pain of watching the very people who shot her and killed thousands of innocent Iranians being praised in the West. And I’m just as shocked when I see that the relatives and children of those who blinded her are living luxurious lives in Europe and America.
@kosareftekharii
Nasa is less than 1% of the budget, but has revolutionized diagnostic scanning for health prevention, lasik surgery, cancer treatments, health monitor wearables, memory foam products, cell phone sensors, power tools, etc.
People's lives have improved because of a space program.
Zelenskyy's credibility comes from moral leadership of democracy against dictatorship, not a mythical international rule of law that has turned into a one-way street exploited by authoritarians like Russia and the Islamic Republic and their terrorist catspaws like Hamas.
CNN's @DanaBashCNN: "Hasan Piker is excusing sexual violence by Hamas terrorists. He also claims Hamas is, quote, 'a thousand times better than Israel.' Hamas is a designated terror organization, not just by the U.S., but by the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand."