Those well-intentioned revolutionaries, too blinded by their ideals, failed to see that they were not contributing to the building of a just society but instead they were laying the groundwork for the suppression of freedoms they held dear. They are marching in line with Iran’s revolutionary ideology, attacking Israel with slogans and protests, but what they fail to understand is that they are helping to dismantle the very freedoms that make their activism possible.Irony, of course, is the hallmark of this situation. These young activists, many of whom have never faced the horrors of war or the oppression of totalitarianism, are being fed narratives that do not reflect the complexities of the situation.
Author: BY CATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM
Published at: 2025-04-16 21:58:09
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