alt Hacker NewsAs someone very vocal on Iran, I find these recriminations shallow and generally intended to be punitive about those positions in those others places.
By the same precedent, it opens up Iranian human rights activists to the same endless accusations — when were you vocal on M23, Haiti, Kashmir, Kurds, Muslims in India, etc etc. I don't think it's countless silent organizations, and those organizations or activists are generally not in position to be able to influence the IRI or IRGC.
I think you have distinguish between feckless organizations like the ITU, and say, college student campus activists.
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The rohingya in Myanmar just 10 years ago.
Myanmar was literally burning people in open pits, happened across 800 villages, most people don't even know that happened.
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>when were you vocal on M23, Haiti, Kashmir, Kurds, Muslims in India...
That is the entire point, Gaza protests have been very vocal (and in many cases very misinformed). Human right abuses in Iran are but another example of this blindness.
Wtf are you talking about Muslims in India? Indian Muslims are more privileged and have more rights than other groups in India. E.g. Muslim men can have 4 wives, regular men only one, Muslim men can divorce by saying "talaak" 3 times, regular men have to go through courts and all. And yes Kashmir needs to be talked about more, especially the Hindu Exodus from Kashmir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_of_Kashmiri_Hindus due to the threat of violence from Islamic extremists.
I think it's a fair criticism though because of the general vitriol about Hamas and Gaza.
The same folks are very much in a position on college campuses to protest about numerous injustices going on in the world, from Iran to Somalia to Haiti to Cuba, yet they're silent.
Why is that? It's a fair question.
I don't think there's some moral failure for caring about one issue affecting one group of people more than another, but you really have to wonder why we care so much about Palestine over other issues, even more gruesome injustices.
This isn't to diminish of course the plight of Palestinians or any group for that matter, but it's a very clear outlier in the American, and dare I say entire western psyche.