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By William Hershaw
Breaking into a draughty lock-up
and throwing a can of paint
over some rusted rancid carrier of death to protest
has become a terrorist offence.
Supporting the thoughtful folk who did it
means you can be put away for fourteen years.
Deliberately shooting
into a crowd of starving folk quietly
queuing for food is ok now.
There might be a terrorist hiding
among those five hundred bairns and old folk.
Protesting about this means you are anti-semitic
and care nothing for those murdered on 7 October.
Who is it who sells these weapons?
Who is it who chooses to use them?
Who is it who twists these lies?
I hope to live long enough
to see these war criminals stand in a dock
to account for their crimes.
Meanwhile I declare my support for protesting
though they give me fourteen years for it.
So come on, you vile hypocrites:
Call this a blood libel?
I call you guilty of genocide.
