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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.”
A Russian Immigrant once asked Ilhan Omar:
“O Congresswoman, do you have to mar
all things Israeli? Your wrathful tweets
do lack a balanced view of the Near East.”
His pleas ignored, A Russian Immigrant then turned
to the elected whipper-tweeter from Detroit:
“I want to know, Representative Tlaib,
do you rehearse or is it all ad lib?”
The poets of Hamas bemoan the death
of one of their own. Villanelles and sonnets
deny that men from Gaza violated Jewish girls
time and again, in gangs, with rabid zeal. They
call it Zionist “lies” and “smokescreen.” Bloody rhymes
with bloody Jewish bodies.
On Friday, 27 October 2023: 120 countries voted in favor (that is, against Israel). 14 countries voted against (that is, 13 for Israel and Israel for itself). 45 countries abstained (abstained).