Vijay Prashad's Iran: On Campism & Principled Internationalism

A response to CounterPunch’s declaration, “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars...to End the US War on Iran,” and to the political framework that made it possible In January 2026, as protests swept Iran and the Islamic Republic responded with mass killings, the international left faced a choice about whose voices to amplify and whose to render invisible. The choice it made is the subject of this essay. The article can be read in full on Farah's substack. where it was originally posted on April 17, 2026.