By Hassen Lorgat
The genocide deniers speak with forked tongues
On October 2023, their leaders made a promise,
with calculated rage and US aid,
to bomb Gaza to the stone age
the occupiers foot soldiers march in line
bragging, whilst recording selfies of their role in the genocide
Yet despite 24 hour news reporting the lie persists…
those planned killings of Palestinians
/close to 50 000 //and counting/
most of the dearly departed/ women and children/
there seems not place for refuge
Samar and her mum Nahida were coldly sniped
at the door of the Holy Family Parish
Still they insist that what they do /Is not a crime of war/
Is not a human rights crime/
The genocide-deniers spin
that when the Allies bombed
dresden, hiroshima and nagasaki
They were saving civilisation and freedom/ it was not genocide
Whose side are they on?
they have never been on our side
and today they are standing up for a genocide
When the genociders justify
these ¨acceptable killings¨
they do not ask the survivors
nor the comrades and families of the fallen
they fail to hear the daily chants of of the peoples streets
They do not hear the chants of Japan’s hibakusha
– the “bomb-affected people”
/No to nuclear weapons! /No to nuclear wars! /
The genociders willingly remain ignorant
refusing to read Lemkin from his tomes and his tomb
Genocide is -”an old practice in its modern development’ –
Of Nuremberg he wrote “never again – failed to go deeper”
“Nuremberg ruled against a past Hitler
—but refused to envisage future Hitlers.”
The genocide-deniers is hasbara speak
They are not on our side
Ours is a cry of the martyrs
and the defiant souls from under the rubble
This is a Shoah and a failure of ‘Never Again’
This is the ongoing Nakba.
We continue to take to the streets
to see them in the dock
and hear their crimes and lies laid bare
whilst their place in history’s refuse is ignobly reserved
11.1.2025 Hassl
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