dog day diary

Real resistance has a definition — and it matters.

Right now in Iran, people are marching unarmed against a brutal regime, knowing they could be shot, imprisoned, or disappear forever. Hospitals are raided. The internet is shut down. Thousands have been killed or detained. And still, they protest — because they want dignity, freedom, and a future where their voices matter.

That is resistance:

confronting power

refusing to harm civilians

accepting personal risk without inflicting terror on others

October 7 was not that.

Massacring families, kidnapping children, and targeting civilians is not liberation — it is terrorism. Calling it “resistance” doesn’t make it so. It only erases the courage of people who actually resist oppression without becoming monsters themselves.

Solidarity with the people of Iran.

Moral clarity about terrorism.

Words matter.

Harper’s Bazaar: