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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.”
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