Shame of the keffiyeh-clad, Gaza protesters’ true loyalties and other commentary

Culture critic: Shame of the Keffiyeh-Clad

“It is impossible to overstate the bravery of Iran’s protesters,” argues Spiked’s Joanna Williams, who “have taken to the streets in defiance of the threat to their lives” with over 500 already “butchered” while “mainstream Western media largely ignored the Iranian women risking their lives daily.”

They “are marching in defiance of a brutal regime that has terrorised all citizens.” Yet “mass displays of solidarity from the West’s activist class have been notable only by their absence”: Just as the response to the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel “revealed that Jewish women do not count,” now “we know that Iranian women do not count either.”

So much for “the faux-feminists”: “These women are braver and more principled than keffiyeh-clad Brits can ever imagine.”

Conservative: Gaza Protesters’ True Loyalties

“The rank hypocrisy on display from anti-Israel fanatics who are ignoring the plight of Iranian protesters has an easy explanation,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel: “It’s not really hypocrisy at all. Pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah agitators are objectively on the side of the mullahs and IRGC thugs who are murdering peaceful Iranian protesters at will.”

Notably, “The brave men and women of Iran have been out in the streets making declarations such as: ‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran’ ” — “a statement of opposition to the funding and support of Hezbollah and Hamas, which are the regime’s own proxies.”

Campus Gaza protests were rife with “Hezbollah flags and shirts with Hamas officials’ faces on them”; why would the protesters now “advocate for the innocent Iranians who just want freedom?”

Eye on Venezuela: Hope as Repression Goes On

“When Venezuelans got the news” about Nicolás Maduro’s capture, “many of us were excited about the prospect of a Venezuela” without the narco-dictator, writes an anonymous Venezuelan for The Free Press.

Celebrations broke out but then “the authorities cracked down on them” under an emergency decree “suspending the rights of free transit and association,” which “gives an authoritarian government unlimited power to control our lives.”

The state of emergency “violates the most fundamental rights in the UN human rights charter,” and worse, “forces an entire population into a world of fear.”

Yet “most of the people I talk to are serene” and hopeful that “at long last, the regime will fall.”

Health beat: Oz & RFK Get Diet Right

“In case you missed it, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced new dietary guidelines promoting whole foods, proteins and healthy fats,” cheers Matt K. Lewis at The Hill.

“I was taught during health class to eat grains,” i.e., “a carb-heavy, gut-busting diet of bread, cereal, and pasta,” but “everything the so-called experts taught us about food in the 1980s and 90s was upside-down, just like Kennedy said.”

At the same briefing, Dr. Mehmet Oz” added “a measure of nuance to this current trend of stiff-drink prudishness,” explaining: “In the best-case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol. But it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize.”

Lewis agrees: “We are in the midst of a loneliness epidemic, after all.”

Libertarian: Trump’s Housing ‘Help’ Misfires

President Trump aims to “ban large investors from buying homes” as critics claim they’re “outbidding would-be owner-occupier families, who are then condemned to a life of perpetual renting,” grumbles Reason’s Christian Britschgi.

Yet “any real federal effort to squeeze institutional investors out of the single-family housing market is bound to make shelter more expensive and less plentiful.”

In fact, large investors own a tiny fraction of single-home stock, and it’s shrinking as “owner-occupying homeowners are outbidding investors and landlords for more and more of the country’s homes each year.”

And if Trump gets his ban, “renters looking for a single-family home in which to live will have fewer options and the US homebuilding rate will be pushed down by regulation once again.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board