Dave Gordon
JNS, Mar. 19, 2025
Elica Le Bon has lost friends and associates and seen family members’ lives put at risk because of her views. But the non-Jewish, Iranian American lawyer and activist says that she continues to defend Israel out of “a sense of responsibility.”
“If I don’t say it, who will?” she told JNS.
Le Bon quit her job as a criminal attorney in Los Angeles to spend full time in social media advocacy and to write a book exploring how hard-line “ideologies have festered in the Western world.”
The latter, she says, will help people “make sense of why the world feels so upside down.”
Born and raised in London to parents who fled the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Le Bon is best known for compassionate, level-headed and seemingly unscripted takes on Middle East news. Some half a million accounts follow her on Instagram and X, and her posts have been viewed tens of millions of times. She has also been featured widely on the news, including on Fox News and Piers Morgan’s program.
Her activism gained significant traction during the Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022 after Jina (“Mahsa”) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, died in a Teheran hospital after the regime’s morality police arrested her for not wearing a hijab.
“It felt like we were getting through to people,” Le Bon told JNS. “It felt like people were speaking up. It felt like people became interested. It felt like people understood that this was a terrorist regime.”….SOURCE