Roya Hakakian
“We are Jewish writers: Roya, an Iranian American living in the United States, Yossi, an Israeli living in Israel. We have come together to appeal to Jewish communities throughout the world to take up the cause of the Iranian people.
In the terrible days after October 7, Jews felt alone and abandoned by much of the world. Yet Iranian expatriates throughout the West openly joined us in grief and outrage. The ancient Iranian flag flew at our solidarity demonstrations; often the only non-Jews who stood with us in the streets were Iranians.
Even inside Iran, many have courageously refused to participate in the regime’s anti-Israel spectacles. Over the years, numerous video clips have shown Iranians refusing to step on the Israeli flags laid out by the regime at the entrance to mosques and on university campuses; one of the most popular chants in the current protests is against the regime’s support for radical Islamist terror groups…”
