Where Are The Chants Of Justice For Iran?
In Iran today, ordinary people and students are risking their lives for freedom.
They chant against the regime despite the certainty of arrest. Protesters are beaten, imprisoned, tortured, and executed for demanding the most basic human rights. Their crime is simple: they want a future not ruled by fear and by an oppressive regime.
The Iranian regime has responded with brutal force. Security services shoot the demonstrators. The prisons are filled. Death sentences are handed down swiftly and quietly. And yet, despite the extraordinary courage of these demonstrators, the world notices and yet most of the world is silent.
Yes, a few countries have expressed their concern and outrage to their Iranian Ambassadors – but that is not enough.
Look around you, look again: There are no massive student encampments on American campuses.
Except for very few demonstrations, there is no international days of rage. No viral chants echoing across city streets.
Instead, there is silence.
This silence stands in stark contrast to what unfolded after Oct. 7, when Hamas carried out a massacre inside Israel. Within days, hundreds of thousands of students and activists flooded streets and universities across the globe. They marched, occupied buildings, and shut down campuses. Their message was loud and coordinated.
But in those demonstrations, something essential was missing. There was no acknowledgment of what actually happened on Oct. 7: women raped, civilians murdered, families slaughtered in their homes, bodies mutilated, innocent people burnt alive. Hamas’s atrocities were ignored, denied, or reframed as “resistance.” In some cases, they were openly celebrated.
These protests were not small or spontaneous, they took place world wide. They were well organized, well funded, and remarkably synchronized across countries. Encampments appeared overnight. Messaging was uniform. The energy was relentless. They condemned Israel and accused Israel of genocide in Gaza.
Now compare that mobilization to the response to Iran.
In Iran, ordinary people are being beaten and killed by their own government for demanding freedom. Women are punished for refusing to comply with religious coercion. Students disappear into prisons. And yet, the very groups that claimed “Justice for Gaza and Palestine” just months ago, are nowhere to be found.
Why?
Why does outrage erupt instantly when Israel is involved, but evaporate when Iranians suffer under an authoritarian Islamist regime?
The uncomfortable truth is this: Israel is not judged by the same standards as any other nation. And Jews are not treated like any other people.
Criticism of Israel is legitimate. Debate is healthy. But what we have witnessed since Oct. 7 is not balanced criticism — it is fixation. A moral obsession that tolerates, excuses, or ignores violence against Jews and Israel while demanding perfection from the Jewish state.
When Hamas commits atrocities, the response is justification or silence. When Israel defends itself, the response is fury.
And when Iran brutalizes its own citizens, the response is… nothing.
This is not principled activism. It is selective outrage.
To the student groups who camped on university lawns, barricaded buildings, and disrupted classes in the name of justice: where are you now? Why does your passion disappear when the victims cannot be used as a weapon against Israel? I don’t see you, I don’t hear you.
To the activists who claimed to speak for human rights: why are Iranian women not worth your tents, your chants, your megaphones? Are the Iranian demonstrators today who are risking their lives not worth your demonstrations to show them support?
To the institutions that tolerated harassment and intimidation of Jewish students under the banner of “freedom of speech”, where is your courage, where is your Justice for the Iranian people ?
Moral outrage that targets Jews relentlessly while ignoring others is not compassion — it is prejudice disguised as activism.
The Iranian people are not asking for slogans. They are asking not to be forgotten. They are risking their lives without the protection of global attention, without the comfort of international solidarity, without the assurance that anyone is watching.
Their bravery should shame the silence. If the world truly believes in freedom, it must prove that belief even when Jews are not the villain of the story. Even when outrage cannot be monetized, shared, or rewarded with social approval. The question is no longer whether injustice exists in Iran. It does. The question is why so many who claim to oppose injustice refuse to see it. Look at Iran. Listen to its people. And then ask yourself why your voice is missing.
