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O sheltered pundits
and tenured humanists
who have been
posting and tweeting
how you feel bad
for Israel,
but all the same…
I say to you, my colleagues,
as Hamas Einsatzgruppen
silentversities silently witness
silentversities fail to condemn
silentversities soulless and witless
“Are you a Zionist?” they asked,
their faces covered in keffiyehs.
On their chessboard hate was masked.
She stood alone. She had no fear.
“No Zionist can come inside
the library. Go back to Poland.”
I live in Canada, many miles away from Israel and Gaza. I am a committed Jew however, ensconced in thought everyday about my fellow Jews fighting a war for our people.
I’m very much aware, and repeat this regularly, that our Israeli brothers and sisters are on the frontline for all Jewish people, everywhere. On Yom HaZikaron, we are extraordinarily thankful for that reality. My boy is going off to university at 18. Yours is going into the laneway and hollowed out buildings of Gaza.
Writing from work in Ashdod, Israel I worked night shift last night. Usually my shift starts at 23:00. But we are on a war schedule so now it starts at 19:00. Dinner time. I have to