In 1981 Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear rector at Osirak ending its nuclear ambitions. In 2007 Israel bombed Syria’s nuclear reactor at Al Kibar ending its nuclear ambitions. In 2010 Israel and the United States destroyed the Iranian centrifuges at Natanz with a computer virus crippling its nuclear ambitions.

No protests. Why?

Social media didn’t exist in 1981 and it was young in 2010.

In other words, the business infrastructure for globally demonising Israel wasn’t yet mature. Local intifadas in the Occupied Territories came and went, but the world loved Seinfeld. The concept of the Western useful idiot that anti-Israel protest organisers could exploit hadn’t yet found critical mass.

Days ago, Israel and the US bombed Iran’s country-wide nuclear weapons industry.

Yet, when Israel took out Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility only days prior—there were few protests too.

Now—suddenly—the Iranian Revolutionary flag is waving in the streets of the West alongside Palestinian flags and rainbows. Grifting organisers had found their funding source taking Palestinian antisemitism for a different spin.

What happened? Trump’s US finally backed Israel with a military strike.

The outraged useful idiots of the West this time are the same: journalists of left-leaning media, old socialist politicians weaned on Arafat’s PLO, unabashed Marxists, uncontrolled anarchists—and of course, those still with smartphones seeking a new avenue for social media belonging.

Thing is, Israel and the US “declared war” on Iran way back in 2010 with Stuxnet but Iran declared war on them in 1979. No protests.

By the way when Saddam hurled Scuds at Israel in 1991 there were no protests either. There was no money to be made.

The days of the Iranian Revolution are now numbered. There’s quite a bit of money tied up in its continuation.

But surely the world can unite around the prospect of a secular, moderate Islam taking over the current Islamic Revolutionary government ending its trademark women-hating and child exploiting extremism that has fuelled copycat Islamist regimes in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, and dare we say billionaire well-wishers in the Gulf?

If not, cooler heads must unite to wind up this business model that makes terror profitable—because giving it a free run is radioactive.

© 2025 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: “Duck and Cover”. Archer Productions, 1951. Library of Congress National Film Register.