Matthew Nouriel

@matthewnouriel.bsky.social

@matthewnouriel.bsky.social has a few more fucks to give out. "Rome Pride bans Jews who don't pass an anti-Israel litmus test... the irony that this is happening in Rome. The city whose history was in part built off of exiling Jews from our homeland."

Matthew Nouriel (@matthewnouriel)

Rome Pride bans Jews who don’t pass an anti-Israel litmus test… the irony that this is happening in Rome. The city whose history was in part built off of exiling Jews from our homeland.

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While Trump bends over backwards to makes deals, the Iranian people are being murdered in cold blood. The Iranian people have been played like a political football for 47 years. For the first time in 47 years they were given real hope, only to be left behind once again.

Hashd al-Shaabi —Iraqi militia funded by the regime— boasting that they’re in Tehran. They’ve been brought in to suppress and kill Iranians. Further proof: this regime is not of Iran. It is an imperialist force—an extension of the Arab Islamic conquest that overtook Iran in the 7th century.

Today the regime in Iran executed Amirhossein Hatami— he was just 18 years old. To every privileged Westerner chanting “hands off Iran” while waving the flag of his executioners: this is what you represent—dead Iranians.

Stop calling it “the Iranian regime”. The regime in Iran does not represent anything Iranian. It is not for Iran, of Iran, or by Iran. It’s an occupying force which has hijacked the land, culture, and people of Iran. Please respect this one small ask.

As an Iranian Jew working in both Jewish and Iranian advocacy, I feel like a damn ping-pong ball — smashed back and forth between two crises for five straight years. No pause. No off-season. Just constant impact.

Western “activists” insisting on progress within their own societies while at the same time insisting we support the most regressive ideologies in the Middle East is one of the most egregious forms of racism we are witnessing today.

You were silent when the regime was killing Iranians. Now you’re outraged? In America, criticizing your government is protected speech. In Iran, it can cost you your life. You debate procedure. Iranians survive tyranny. Stop speaking over us.

Appointing the Islamic Republic of Iran to help “uphold” the UN Charter is like handing a match to an arsonist and calling it fire prevention. The UN keeps legitimizing the regime, and we’re supposed to take them seriously? The UN is a dangerous joke.

If you don’t recognize the Islamic Republic in Iran as legitimate, you don’t adopt its language. Calling Prince Reza Pahlavi a “pretender to the throne” only makes sense inside the regime’s own framework for denying his legitimacy. This Language isn’t neutral, and Iranians see it very clearly.

The situation in Iran has exposed how much of today’s western “activism” is driven by aesthetics and tribal belonging rather than principle. Real activism costs social standing, it doesn’t elevate it—and that’s a lesson much of today’s trendy social justice culture still hasn’t learned.