The Left’s Moral Blind Spot

Warning: This text describes extreme violence. If you cannot endure graphic descriptions of state-sponsored brutality, please stop reading now.

While American college campuses are paralyzed by “encampments,” while “Solidarity with Palestine” is screamed from the rooftops of New York City, and while Hamas slogans are sanitized as “decolonial resistance,” something else is happening simultaneously—something that holds zero currency for these same “progressive” circles.

In Iran, women are being raped, tortured, mutilated, and burned.

Systematically. State-organized. As an instrument of terror.

Since late December, the people of Iran have returned to the streets to face the Mullah regime. Women, above all. They are casting off the hijab; they are demanding freedom, dignity, and self-determination. The regime’s response is raw, archaic violence.

Reports surfacing from Iran paint a picture that is almost impossible to stomach: Security forces throw young women into vans and tell them to their faces: “We won’t kill you yet. First, we rape you. Then, we kill you.”

Women are tortured and mutilated before their execution. Bodies are burned so families cannot see the evidence of what was done to them. Rape is used as a tactical weapon—even against children—to break the spirit of a nation.

And now, we ask the simple, brutal question: Where are the protests?

Where are the mass solidarity marches in front of the UN? Where are the tears, the viral hashtags, the celebrity black-square avatars?

The answer is as simple as it is shameful: They barely exist.

The political Left in the United States—and across the West—does not care about the women of Iran. Not seriously. Not loudly. Because the Iranian regime doesn’t fit the “Oppressor vs. Oppressed” flowchart.

The Mullahs are anti-Western. They are anti-Israel. They are Islamist. And in the twisted logic of modern intersectionality, that grants them a moral hall pass.

The New York Symptom

Look at New York City for the ultimate example of this moral decay. While the streets are choked with agitators romanticizing “intifada,” the leadership remains a masterclass in selective outrage. We see figures like the current New York City Mayor, who—despite tough talk on “public safety”—has overseen a city where radicalism is coddled while the actual victims of global Islamism are ignored.

Instead of standing as a bulwark against the ideology that fuels the Mullahs, the city administration plays a double game: offering “thoughts and prayers” to marginalized groups while allowing the very activists who carry the Mullahs’ water to dictate the cultural temperature of the city. When your “progressive” leadership is more afraid of offending a radical voting bloc than it is of condemning a regime that rapes dissidents, the system isn’t just broken—it’s complicit.

Identity Over Humanity

Hating Israel has become the primary identity-marker for these movements. It functions as a moral glue, a projection screen, a secular religion. If you march against Israel, you are automatically “on the right side of history,” regardless of the monsters you find yourself standing next to.

The fact that this same Iranian regime hangs homosexuals from cranes, tortures dissidents, and terrifies children is merely a “distraction” to the narrative. It doesn’t fit the story of the “Global South” resisting “Western Imperialism.”

So, they stay silent. Or they “contextualize.” Or they look away.

This is not an accident. It is not an oversight. It is Ideology.

It is a worldview where Israel is the “Eternal Aggressor,” while its sworn enemies—Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC—are rebranded as “resistance movements.”

Let’s be clear: If you scream yourself hoarse against Israel today while remaining silent about the industrial-scale rape in Iran, you are not a humanist. You are not a feminist. You are not a progressive.

You are an antisemite—and a de facto enabler of Islamism.

Not because you admit it, but because your outrage is selective. Your moral compass only spins when Jews can be cast as the villain.

The women in Iran don’t need empty slogans or “context.” They need international pressure. They need loud, uncompromising solidarity. The fact that they aren’t getting it from those who LARP as the “moral vanguard” is one of the greatest scandals of our time.

This silence is not neutral. It is a choice.

About the Author: Jonathan Falk is the author of several Amazon bestsellers in the Terrorism and Political Science categories. His work focuses on the intersection of radicalism and Western societal decline. Explore his titles on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited:

• Fire in the Holy Land: October 7, Hamas, and the New Global Antisemitism
• Europe on the Brink: Migration, Islamization, and Identity Loss
• Imported Hate: Gaza, the Left, Islamism – How the New Antisemitism Is Being Unleashed Worldwide