Iran's massacre exposes the left's betrayal of freedom

(JNS) — A friend recently asked me: “Why would the left support the mullahs?”

As Iranian security forces gun down protesters in the streets the question addresses the most consequential moral failure of our time, one that directly threatens both Iranian freedom fighters and the Jewish people.

The answer exposes how an ideology born in Parisian cafes in the 1970s migrated through Western universities into America’s mainstream, poisoning our ability to distinguish between freedom fighters and fascists and ultimately, between those who would destroy Israel and those who would defend it.

The left’...