Feminists for Iran is like Queers for Palestine

I saw a comment today online that stuck with me — something to the effect that feminists marching for Iran is peak folly, much like the often mocked Queers for Palestine.

They meant feminists and Leftist groups protesting the US air strikes, which stands in sharp opposition to millions of Iranians, both diaspora and in Iran, who are celebrating Khomaenei’s demise.

Those celebrating his death include the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran, whose members have been imprisoned, tortured, raped and murdered for advocating for the liberation of women from that despotic Islamic theocracy.

So are Western feminists really marching for Iran? Yes, amazingly. They seem motivated by an overarching and irrational hatred of Trump and Israel more than anything else. To paraphrase Golda Meir, their hatred of Trump and Israel is greater than their love for women and girls.

It reminds me of the attached cartoons, juxtaposing the position of Iranian women and clueless Western feminists and Leftists. Clueless yet still smug and morally righteous enough to lecture Iranian women about how they should be feeling.

Apparently, these Western marchers are also pro-Palestinian (which is to say anti-Israel), even though Hamas— like all Islamists— oppresses women, and Israel is the only egalitarian country in the region.

According to Jamie Glazov in his book United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror (2009), Western Leftists are motivated to side with Islamic terrorists because they see it as a way to overthrow the West and construct a Utopian society. They are seemingly unaware of the horrors of Islamic terrorism, or else just do not care. Naturally, they are rabidly anti-Trump.

Feminism is, overall, a bad ideology that has little to do with women’s rights, even historically, as argued by Janice Fiamengo. It has everything to do with misandry (hatred of men) and gynocentrism. It has done far more to harm women and girls than to help them. It is helping to destroy Western civilization, the only civilization in human history that was truly egalitarian. What will come afterwards, if the West falls, will not be good for women — or anyone.

The fact that feminists would march for an evil, repressive regime that murdered and raped women completely exposes their absolute moral failure and disregard for women. It’s very similar to the way in which they did mental gymnastics after Oct 7th, as describedin this excellent article below.

Fiamengo writes that feminists who made excuses for Hamas “forces the recognition that abhorrence of rape is not the unifying conviction feminists have for so long claimed it to be, and that in certain cases, it seems hardly to matter at all.”

Another key example of this is the way that British feminists obsfucated in response to the gang rape of thousands of girls in the UK by Pakistani men, rather than condemn the rapes and lack of adequate police response to it. See “What Kind of Feminist Wants Rapists” and “Feminism and Grooming Gangs” by The Fiamengo Files on Substack.

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Background notes:

The “UN Women Advocacy on March 3rd, 2026, expressed grave concern that the strikes put women and girls at immediate risk of violence.” Yet they did not express a similar degree of concern for the Israeli women and girls assaulted on Oct 3rd, 2023, or the millions of Iranian women subjugated in Iran, or the millions oppressed by terrorism and wars sponsored by the Iranian regime.

CENTCOM and the IDF made sure the strikes were precise and took out only key installations and leaders, not civilians. The strike on a girl’s school, alleged by the Iranian regime, is denied by CENTCOM, whom I tend to believe over Iran. It seems more likely that the Iranian forces bombed the school themselves, much in the way that Hamas uses Palestinian children as “human shields” in order to libel the IDF.

The CBC reported that Iranians mourned the Supreme Leader (a few did), but apparently did not mention the millions who celebrated it, which Juno News called a new low for the CBC.

PM Carney flip-flopped on his initial support for the air strikes, seemingly in response to Islamist voters, and perhaps also under pressure from Communist China, Iran’s major ally. This made him appear to be a very weak leader. He also “recognized Palestine” and sent $400 million to Gaza, some or all of which ended up in the pockets of Hamas.

Meanwhile, the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, which was launched after the death of Mahsa Amini, celebrated Khomenei’s death and condemned the regime’s “machinery of killing”, and demanded the total overthrow of the Islamic Republic.

Kurdish women warriors have reportedly taken positions in the mountains, expressing readiness to confront Iranian forces amid the drone strikes and broader conflict.

The most diplomatic thing one can say is that feminists are sharply divided on whether military strikes are a valid solution.

I would say that Western feminists who marched against the air strikes appear to be “useful idiots” for Islamic terrorism and its brutal subjugation of women and girls, since the only way to end that subjugation is through the death of those perpetrating it.

Non-violent protest movements may work in the West but not in Iran. Approximately 32,000 protesters were murdered there in the last year. Gandhi’s non-violent tactics were criticized as inadequate to defeat Hitler, and likewise, tactics that work in liberal democracies are not adequate against Islamic theocracies.

Journalist Konstantinos Bogdanos argued that “Western feminists often use ‘context’ and ‘relativism’ to avoid condemning theocratic regimes that are enemies of the U.S., effectively abandoning Iranian women to their oppressors.”

Diaspora activist Masih Alinejad criticized political leaders and activists for focusing on the dangers of war while remaining silent on the "war" the Iranian regime has waged against its own women for 47 years.

“Despite severe internet blackouts and the risk of state retaliation, videos from cities like Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz show residents celebrating on rooftops, honking car horns, and even launching fireworks.

“Women have engaged in highly visible acts of protest, such as lighting cigarettes with burning portraits of Khamenei. Others have been filmed removing their hijabs in public or dancing in the streets to mark the end of his decades-long rule. In southern Iran, protesters were seen toppling monuments of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, signalling a rejection of the entire theocratic system.

“Prominent figures and diaspora communities in cities like Vancouver, Los Angeles, and London held rallies described as "jubilant". Activists like Nazanin Afshin-Jam Mackay noted that for many women, it felt as though they could "finally breathe again".

“Many in the movement emphasize that Khamenei's death is only "one step." They argue that the goal remains the total dismantling of the "gender apartheid" system, rather than just the removal of one leader.

The regime has not yet been finally eliminated, but hopefully will be soon. No one knows how long it can persist or what atrocities may come next.