Iran’s protests expose Western moral collapse

Julio Levit Koldorf
Mar 19
1 min read

— JNS

Julio Levit Koldorf argues that Iran’s uprising—especially women defying the compulsory veil at immense personal risk—has exposed not only the brutality of the regime but the West’s selective silence, particularly from the UN, major human-rights NGOs, and activist feminism; he claims this is not a momentary failure but the predictable outcome of an ideological drift in which “universal” human rights have become conditional, a pattern he says was laid bare after Oct. 7, 2023, when outrage over sexual violence and atrocities was delayed, euphemized, or denied because the victims were Jewish and Israeli; he extends that critique to Iran, arguing that if contemporary feminism truly followed its stated values, Iranian women would be central rather than ignored, and he attributes the absence to an oppressor/oppressed framework that recasts Islamist regimes as “anti-imperialist” while targeting Israel with distorted moral categories; in his view, institutions then participate in “laundering” repression, while activists avoid the cognitive cost of admitting they backed the wrong side, so silence becomes a strategy; he closes by warning that performative activism is easier than standing with people who truly risk their lives, and insists that Iranians are asking for real solidarity—and that silence is never neutral. https://www.jns.org/opinion/julio-levit-koldorf/irans-protests-expose-western-moral-collapse

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