An Imperialist Peace.

With peace being imposed on Palestinians yet again, I thought I'd publish this piece of slam poetry that I wrote last year.

They say the war started

on October the Seventh

It didn’t.

It started in the 1930s

They say that Israel

is a democracy.

It isn’t.

Israel is an

apartheid state.

It is a colonial

settler state.

Palestinians have no rights.

Israel has seized

and is still seizing

Palestinian land.

Palestinians are driven from their homes.

They are forced

into refugee camps.

Israel has invaded

Gaza,

Lebanon,

Yemen,

Iran,

Qatar.

They say criticism

of Israel

is antisemitic.

It isn’t.

We aren’t criticising Jews.

We are criticising

a nation-state

and

its political philosophy,

Zionism.

They say Hamas is terrorist.

It isn’t.

UN General Assembly

Resolution 45/130

1990

reaffirms

‘the legitimacy

of the struggle of peoples

for independence,

territorial integrity,

national unity

and

liberation from

colonial domination,

apartheid

and

foreign domination

by all available means

including armed struggle.’

Hamas is not terrorist

It is fighting for

independence,

territorial integrity,

national unity

and

liberation from

colonial domination,

apartheid

and

foreign domination

by armed struggle.

From the river

to the sea

Palestine

will

be

free!