I wake as late as possible

Bracing for the newest news

The bootless search for hostages

The cries of western outrage

Echoing the words from Gaza

The Health Authority, also Hamas,

Designated a terror organization

By some countries including the UK.

The death toll rises and the rage

Flows into my notifications

I, they say, am the killer

I do not take it personally

I see this is levelled at many Jews

On social media and on the streets.

Every day the same arguments:

That Zionism is not Jewish

Or that Jews are not Jewish

Or that we blew up the King David hotel

Or that we killed Christ.

Today I see Wes Streeting

Has turned against Israel’s war

It had to happen.

Losing is tolerable, winning  never.

We are all sorrowing

About the deaths in the rubble,

The lovely children, resembling

Our own children killed or kidnapped

By those who are designated

Terrorists in some countries

Including the UK.