A new Israeli social media campaign, #IsraelisLoveIranians, is kicking off with the intention of supporting the Iranian people in their struggle for freedom against the country’s Islamist regime, according to a Monday press release from one of the movement’s co-founders.
The campaign is grassroots and female-led. Further, the campaign being pro-Iranian, according to movement co-founder Emily Schrader, does not undermine its pro-Israel basis.
“As the global day of solidarity for the Iranian people is on Rosh Hashanah, it was important for us to have a strong showing of support for the people of Iran directly from the people of Israel,” Schrader said. “Iranians are not our enemies, rather [they are] our allies in the fight against their own government which spreads violence and terror everywhere. As Israelis, we proudly stand with the people of Iran.”
The social media campaign will take place throughout the month of September and was organized to coincide with worldwide demonstrations supporting the Iranian people on the September 16 one-year anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini who was beaten to death by Iran’s morality police for supposedly wearing her hijab incorrectly.
Amini’s death sparked nationwide protests that went on to take the world by storm.
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