Parishad Kavyani

“After that happened, I started separating myself… because I was like, this is not the group that I want to associate myself with because I don't think a lot of the people within that movement are there for the human rights aspect of it,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani said she began separating herself from the pro-Palestine movement after Oct. 7 because she felt many in the movement were not genuinely motivated by human rights.

“That is, like, so ideology-driven, which we're seeing right now on the internet and in real life… You cannot create a hierarchy of people and say this person deserves saving more than this person… That liberal intellectualism is, like, so insane,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani criticized what she called ideology-driven liberal intellectualism that creates a hierarchy of who deserves to be saved.

“When October 7 happened, I had a lot of conversations with people [about it]... Like, just because someone is holding an Israeli passport doesn't mean that they should just get killed… If there’s a war that you're including civilians in that war, and you're taking civilians hostage, and you're raping civilians or torturing civilians — that's not something that I support no matter who this person is, because I'm not somebody who thinks someone deserves to die just because of where they're from or just because the political belief that they hold on to,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani discussed her conversations after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, saying she does not support killing or harming civilians regardless of nationality or political belief.

“I have never faced the amount of homophobia, racism and sexism that I have experienced in the past nine months from the leftists, from the very people that I marched with for over two years for a free Palestine, and that is insanity,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani spoke to Fox News Digital about leaving the pro-Palestine cause after experiencing homophobia, racism, and sexism from leftists she had marched with.

“[They] advocate for liberation of people, [they] advocate for women's rights, but when it comes to Iranian women wanting freedom, wanting the freedom to wear whatever they want, [they] suddenly are quiet — and not only quiet, but [they] support the oppressor. That's my issue… [they] cherry-pick between oppressors,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani criticized the pro-Palestine movement for staying silent on the freedom of Iranian women while claiming to advocate for liberation and women's rights.

“Then… you enter the society, and you see there is poverty everywhere. You see that the villages in Iran don't have drinking water. You see that the villagers in Iran don’t have a road to a hospital… Why? Because the government doesn't actually do anything about the people in need inside the country, and you're always told, ‘Oh, but we have to save money to send to Palestine,’”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani described witnessing poverty and lack of basic infrastructure in Iran while being told the government must save money to send to Palestine.

“As an Iranian born and raised in Iran… you are raised with a lot of information, a lot of propaganda around what is happening in Israel, what is happening in Palestine, and you are just told this every single day by the authorities. That Palestinians need help, they've been oppressed, they've been getting killed all of these years, so we have to help them,”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani explained that Iranians are raised on daily government propaganda emphasizing that Palestinians are oppressed and must be helped.

“The more time you spend in the country you’re like, ‘Why is it my responsibility to save another nation?’”

Parishad Kavyani · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-31

Kavyani recounted how spending more time in Iran led her to question why it was her responsibility to save another nation.