Zionism in Action
Let’s call it out for what it is, this wilful destruction
of all things Palestinian, this all-consuming genocide,
this visiting of death on children cowering in tents.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this defiant dissolution
of a precarious postwar body of internation law
designed to mitigate the worst of human appetites.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this fake global campaign
to divert culpability, to condemn as antisemites
Jewish protesters on the streets, elevate evil over good.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this Hitlerian ambition
to create a Greater Israel out of the dust and ashes,
the homes and olive groves of indigenous peoples.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this final debunking
of the myth the West knows best, holds in its soiled
paws the prospect for a better future for all.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this obsequiousness,
this sickening servitude to the Zionist Netanyahu
and the prioritisation racial citizenship over lives.
Let’s call it out for what it is, a geopolitical tantrum
by a West fearful of decline, of a China gaining fast
on the outside lane, of a globe unsafe for plunder.
Let’s call it out for what it is, this crude weaponizing
of antisemitism in a final, desperate bid to arrest
resistance, to fortify a crumbling empire on the run.
Let’s call it out for what it is, a denial of a North
versus South global battle dictated by the needs
of the 1%, of wealth, whiteness and masculinity.
Let’s call it out for what it is, a Western outpost
given licence and arms to murder, maim and exile,
all done in the name of its own godforsaken god.