Never Forgive – Never Forget
They say: “Israel are baby killers,” but they murdered Kfir and Ariel in cold blood.
They claim to support women’s rights
Anja Stanitzek
March 10, 2025
Tag: anti-Semitism
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Writing from abroad
The Scream of a Post-October 7th Jew
in bed
cold beads
of sweat
catch me
still in the snare
of my nightmare
back at the home
of my childhood
walking past
the front door
realizing
it wasn’t quite
completely closed
Jessica Ursell
January 16, 2025
I Can Never Wash What I Saw Out of My Eyes
You can deny deny deny deny and deny
But I can never wash
What I saw out of my eyes
I am a teacher and mother of six
We live in the town of Kfar Aza
Gail Wasserman
December 30, 2024
Once Again
May 5th, 2024
I wanted to talk about the Jews being barred from universities, their homes and businesses marked and boycotted, their identity used against them back in the all too recent 1930s, but 2024 kept flashing in front of my eyes.
I wanted to decry the dehumanization of Jews by the Nazis, but all I could hear was the resounding shouts just this week of “Kill the Jews” and “Hitler was right”.
Miriam Roskind
December 15, 2024
Writing from work
First Shabbos of the War
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
Maxim D. Shrayer
August 28, 2024
Sheva BeOctober: A Poem
Without a chance
without being asked
Still they ask
They insist
Declaim “this”1
Before the mountain man2
before the voices3
before three stars4
came us5
Nathan Waintman
August 18, 2024
Reverberations of October 7th: Musings of an American Jew on the Fourth of July
the July 4th rat a tat tat
fireworks finale sounds
no holiday hotdogs here
only a fusillade of bullets
our porch door
creaking
no longer a sign
of lazy summer
now suspicion
is all it brings
Jessica Ursell
August 7, 2024
Amalek
Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey out of Egypt.
But how could we forget?
Weak, starving, insecure, unprotected
Parched, dehydrated, thirsty
For water, yes – and so much more
Traveling across the desert
Barren wasteland filled with nothing
Melissa Saltzman
July 28, 2024
silentversities
silentversities silently witness
silentversities fail to condemn
silentversities soulless and witless
Maxim D. Shrayer
June 13, 2024
Campus Confrontation
“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.”
Maxim D. Shrayer
May 29, 2024