What we face today on the global left is a fundamental issue, not just with ideology, but with clarity of purpose. There’s a fixation on the destruction of Israel, a vision rooted in an anti-Semitic worldview. It’s crucial to confront this head-on. The struggle for Palestinian liberation, over the past decades, has become entangled in a cynical game between the most reactionary forces in both the Middle East and the West. What they call themselves doesn’t matter. What matters is the future they envision, and what they are really offering.
Advocating for the destruction of Israel, or opposing it without a clear alternative, while aligning with regimes like the Islamic Republic, leads nowhere. Maybe a handful of confused Europeans will cheer from a café, but this kind of rhetoric ultimately hands power to the right-wing. Is the Islamic Republic your idea of an anti-colonial future? If so, it’s a farce.
The left, both in Iran and in Europe, needs to embrace a position that can stand against Israel’s crimes, particularly under Netanyahu and the far-right, but that doesn’t advocate for its annihilation. The recognition of Israel, alongside Palestine, is crucial. This conflict must end, and in Iran, as leftists, we should push for a foreign policy that is non-interventionist, rooted in peace, and rejects any alignment with authoritarianism disguised as resistance.
This is the blind spot of the European left. They have aligned themselves with the most reactionary forces, dreaming of Israel’s destruction, standing shoulder to shoulder with fascism. It’s not only a betrayal of any true anti-colonial stance but also of the very people they claim to defend. In the West, we see how, under the guise of multiculturalism, the rights of many people are trampled under cultural relativism. Some defend these violations by saying, “It’s their culture.” But this is no defense of liberation—this is complicity with oppression, a tool the right-wing weaponizes against non-white communities in Europe under title defending Western values. In such a distorted view of solidarity, there is no alternative being offered.
Our task is to create a different image. Take the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ protests as an example. Not once did you see overt political support for the Israeli government from these protesters. Why? Because even the Israeli right-wing recognized the threat such a progressive, peace-driven movement posed to their ambitions. That’s why protesters in Tel Aviv, without hesitation, equated Netanyahu with Khomeini, signaling that the issue is the right-wing authoritarianism, it’s the occupation. There is a vast difference between rejecting a government and calling for the destruction of an entire society.
The left in Europe, especially, is hoping that Islamic fascism will finish the job for them through war. While Western governments are fully arming Israel, they [the European left] are merely condemning. Just like now, they show images of children killed in Gaza and say Israel is committing crimes, but instead of taking effective steps, they silence critics of political Islam.
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