Shame on Golden Globes’ virtue-signalling celebs who are silent about one country | World | News

The silence has been deafening. More than 2,000 freedom-seekers in Iran – many of them women oppressed and despised by their government – murdered by a despotic regime that has controlled and terrorised them for decades. But not a peep out of a single celebrity; not a murmur from any A-lister who wouldn’t hesitate to speak out on Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not one. Not a single one. Did you see the Golden Globes earlier this week?

Plenty of virtue-signallers on display there all right; plenty of those all too quick on the draw when it comes to opinionating on Middle East politics – just as long as those politics are confined to Israel-Palestine. Plenty of lapel pins calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (er, there is one, guys, tenuous as it may be, or hadn’t you noticed?) but not a sign, slogan or syllable supporting the anti-government protesters who have been risking their lives – and paying with them, in their hundreds, daily – to win freedom in Iraq.

And hadn’t these Golden Globers, many of them self-proclaimed feminists, clocked that there is a feminist revolution underway on the streets of Tehran and dozens of other Iranian towns and cities?

Are they unaware that for their entire lifetime (in many women’s cases) they have endured the brutal yoke of male oppression? Beaten to death for not wearing the hijab?

Jailed and tortured for daring to show their hair in public or argue with religious police goons? Utterly disempowered and denigrated for having the XX chromosome, not the XY?

These women have been INCREDIBLE over the last few days. Openly lighting cigarettes with burning photos of their hated oppressor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Marching and calling for liberation, often under sniper fire. Or more direct fire – as in the case of student Rubina Aminian, 23, left, shot in the back of the head as she joined a protest rally from college.

Not a solitary word about any of it at the oh-so-correct Golden Globes. Shame on the lot of them. Shame.