Former pro-Palestine supporter blasts 'insane' movement
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Parishad Kavyani, a former pro-Palestine supporter who moved to Canada from Iran when she was 14, has abandoned the “insanity” of the movement, saying it likes to cherry-pick who it supports and ignore human rights in general, according to Fox News.
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“I have never faced the amount of homophobia, racism and sexism that I have experienced in the past nine months from the leftists, from the very people that I marched with for over two years for a free Palestine, and that is insanity,” she told Fox .
Pro-Pali movement’s brutal hypocrisy
Kavyani says the movement will be foursquare behind you if you’re a woman advocating for freedom, unless you’re an Iranian under that country’s brutal hardline Islamic regime.
“You advocate for liberation. You advocate for women’s rights but when it comes to Iranian women wanting freedom to wear whatever they want, you are quiet. But not only are you quiet, you support their oppressor,” she said.
Kavyani also has some specific insight for women’s rights activists within the movement.
“When anti-abortion laws are passed in the United States, all of these leftists believe American women deserve autonomy over their own bodies and they flood the streets. But when Iranian women want autonomy over what they want to put on their bodies, suddenly they’re called ‘whores,'” she said.
“All of Twitter is filled with women going to protests wearing skirts or crop tops and they’re told, ‘Ew, all they want to do is be naked.’ You go to protests naked, that’s OK. You think American women deserve the right and then suddenly, you condemn Iranian women for wanting that freedom … I think the pro-Palestine movement was necessary for people to realize what a lot of the far left actually is.”
Growing up in Iran
Kavyani said she began to have doubts about the movement after her fellow supporters posted content in support of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Growing up under the hardline regime, Kavyani says Iranians are subjected to a steady diet of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel propaganda.
“As an Iranian born and raised in Iran… you are raised with a lot of information, a lot of propaganda around what is happening in Israel, what is happening in Palestine, and you are just told this every single day by the authorities. That Palestinians need help, they’ve been oppressed, they’ve been getting killed all of these years, so we have to help them,” she said.
“Then… you enter the society, and you see there is poverty everywhere. You see that the villages in Iran don’t have drinking water. You see that the villagers in Iran don’t have a road to a hospital… Why? Because the government doesn’t actually do anything about the people in need inside the country, and you’re always told, ‘Oh, but we have to save money to send to Palestine.’”
Oct. 7 changed everything
For Kavyani, the straw that broke the camel’s back was the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks by Islamic terror groups Hamas, and the subsequent rallies across the globe for those attacks.
“When October 7 happened, I had a lot of conversations with people (about it) … Like, just because someone is holding an Israeli passport doesn’t mean that they should just get killed … If there’s a war that you’re including civilians in that war, and you’re taking civilians hostage, and you’re raping civilians or torturing civilians — that’s not something that I support no matter who this person is, because I’m not somebody who thinks someone deserves to die just because of where they’re from or just because the political belief that they hold on to,” she said.
“That is, like, so ideology-driven, which we’re seeing right now on the internet and in real life … You cannot create a hierarchy of people and say this person deserves saving more than this person … That liberal intellectualism is, like, so insane.”