Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

[h2ohno]

Tober said:

h2ohno said:

There is 1 seat designated for a Jewish person in the Iranian parliament where that 1 Jew serves as a token and parrots the talking points Khamenei gives him.  The Jewish community of Iran is less than 1/10 of what it was before the current regime took over because the vast majority fled the country in fear, and those who remain have no freedom to disagree on the government on anything for fear of reprisal.  Meanwhile Iran funds and plans terrorist attacks against Jews-not even Israelis-across 4 different continents.  Iran can be very tolerant of Jews when they are good Dhimmis who do exactly what their Muslim masters tell them, all the others it does indeed want to kill.

If that is so, why are we never hearing about it in the media? If jewish people are suppressed in Iran, I expected we would hear about it all the time. It's the largest jewish community in the middle-east outside of Israel.

There are a lot of horrible stories you don't hear about in the media. For instance, about 200 Christians were massacred in Nigeria during Christmas week, and this week 7 Jews were killed when a rocket hit a synagogue in India - which was not a deliberate attack on those Jews but collateral damage from another conflict between two different ethnic groups that broke out last year.  The biggest reason in this case is probably that the persecution hasn't resulted in killings for a while, and a persecution that has been going on for over 40 years with little change isn't news.  Jewish media and Iranian opposition media are full of stories of the plight of Iranian Jews, as those tens of thousands of Jews who have left Iran are finally free to speak without fear of being arrested and possibly killed, and experts on Iran have written and spoken extensively on the subject.  And the American government has condemned Iran for forcing its Jews to hold rallies condemning Israel.

Turkey is actually the Middle Eastern Nation with the most Jews currently, as the number of Jews in Iran has fallen to around 8-9,000, while Turkey has nearly 15,000.  A community does not drop from 100,000 to under 10,000 if they are being treated well and live without fear.  The very fact that Jews are never seen in anti-regime protests such as the protests over Mahsa Amini is as telling, as in no other country are Jews so completely absent from protest movements because if they put a toe out of line in Iran they will be immediately accused of being Israeli agents and arrested.