Forgotten

His name is Ashkan Asadian
And he is a forgotten hero
A hero with a message of peace
A message that does not fit the narrative

His name is Ashkan Asadian
And he tackled the mentally ill man who stabbed two Jewish men in Golders green
He tried to disarm him and then trapped the attacker in a greengrocers with a shopping trolly
Allowing one of the victims to escape

His name is Ashkan Asadian
And he is originally from Iran
His message is that religion does not matter
That we are all human
While his country is being bombed as pedophile distraction

His Name is Ashkan Asadian
When you conflate religious identity with a genocidal state
All criticism of the genocide becomes religious intolerance
It’s not
Although flying the Israeli flag at a march against anti-semitisim does not help

His name is Askan Asadian
And his story deserves to be told as loud as other narratives
Like the attack on a synagogue that was actually a mosque
Like the war that is actually a genocide

I’m looking at you BBC
I’m looking at you The Economist
I’m looking at you The Times
I’m looking at you Sky News
I’m looking at you Metropolitan Police Force
I’m looking at you the British Government

His name is Askan Asadian
To be Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Zionist does mean Anti-Semitic
To say otherwise is to erase the identity of Pro-Palestinian and Anti-Zionist Jews
Words matter
Like actions
Even those that don’t fit your politically expedient narrative
All false flags are conspiracy theories until they are not

His name is Askan Asadian.

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