The silence of anti-Israel activists over the massacre of thousands of Iranians by their own government is deafening.
The Iranian regime has killed more than 16,500 people in its crackdown against protesters, according to a British report released Sunday, but possibly as many as 20,000, according to CBS News. Yet there has noticeably been no outcry on university campuses or in major Western cities such as Toronto, New York and Paris. There have been no calls to boycott the Iranian economy, no campaigns against cultural institutions and no demands to suspend academic relations.
No tears were shed for the murders of Javad Ganji (a 39-year-old Iranian filmmaker shot during protests) or Rebin Moradi (a 17-year-old soccer talent shot in the back at close range), and no outrage was voiced against the planned execution of Erfan Soltani (a 26-year-old protester denied due process).
