Is it Antisemitic?

Hungry children, Gaza
Image credit Hosny Salah – Palestinian photographer from Gaza

Is it antisemitic
to criticise the state of Israel

rogue state
racist state
fascist state
leper state

ethno-nationalist
Jewish supremacist
settler colonial state

apartheid state
terrorist state
genocidal state

Is it antisemitic
to speak of your war crimes – of your crimes against humanity

are we not allowed
to mention
when questioned
the Nakba
the forced displacement and expulsions
the land theft and annexation
illegal occupation
collective punishment
ethnic cleansing
persecution
torture
rape and pillage —
the murder
the mass murder
the indiscriminate bloody murder
and wanton destruction
of civilian infrastructure and populations
the decimation of communities
the assassination of medics and journalists
starvation as a weapon of war
the use of human shields
the homicide
the ecocide
the genocide

Is it antisemitic
to question the Zionist propaganda machine

the lies
the twisted lies
the pathological lies
the mountain of lies
the fountain of shit
the avalanche of excrement
the eruption of filth
the circus of depravity
the carnival of horrors
the zoo of shame
the perversion of truth
the denial of reality
the monumental gaslighting
and rank hypocrisy
the deception and manipulation
the fabrication and falsification
the monstrous fraud
of the Zionist propaganda machine —
white washing war crimes
justifying genocide
normalising Netanyahu
the war criminal terrorist
the pantomime villain
that bastard son of darkness
the elephant man in the room

Is it antisemitic
to denounce the starvation of Gaza

the deliberation starvation
undertaken
with forethought
and intent
with careful calculation
the man-made famine
the starving children
the wasted bodies
the skeletal husks
and human remains
the lifeless corpses
and the hunger games
that remind us of
another time
another holocaust
a Nazi crime —
ghosts from the past
haunting
taunting
reverberations
from the ghettos
and the death camps
the obscene irony
of history repeating
over and over
never again
never again
never again

Is it antisemitic to hold up a sign
Stop the Genocide – Free Palestine

are we antisemitic
for marching in the streets
for demanding action
for sending tweets —
for bearing witness
to the unbearable slaughter
and daring to disagree
with a live-streamed genocide
that the whole world can see

are we antisemitic
for calling out the hypocrisy
of governments and industries
invested in the war machine
committing international crimes
and profiting from genocide

is it antisemitic
to call out the complicity
of the politicians
and the men in suits
who lick the boots
of the warmongers
and the profiteers
who build the factories
that make the bombs
that blow off the limbs
of the children of Gaza

who will stand up for
the children of Gaza
the limbless
the eyeless
the broken
and the dead

what will be left
when the killing is over
for the disinherited
and the dispossessed

Is it antisemitic

02 September 2025

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