His message states:
Seeing a movement of this scale rise up in response to the live-streamed mass starvation and genocide in Gaza is humbling and deeply heartening.
Watching independent activists risk their lives to expose the atrocities that settler-colonialists can commit is truly inspiring.
It shows that when people recognize injustice, they can build movements strong enough to say—and mean—that “never again” means never again for everybody.
Not long ago, Omar El Akkad wrote: “… when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
But you are doing it now—risking your safety, taking on all the downsides, and calling it what it is.
The earth is proud to have people like you walking on it.
Javad Zarif was the foreign minister of Iran from 2013 until 2021 in the government of Hassan Rouhani. He served as the vice president for strategic affairs from August 2024 to March 2025.
