Tony Blair's New Job

So Tony Blair wants to ban Holocaust denial and antisemitism,

in exchange of a big pay day.

Let's look beyond Tony of the bloody hands and endless greed,

and say something of denial and racism:

Denial of suffering, historic and current, is all around us,

ill-informed and deliberate revisionism both; should we ban it all?

If not, why only particular case or cases,

and leave other bastions of ignorance and hate unbroken?

Should only those whose voice is loudest, whose mouth is

closest to the ear of the politicians and the media

and those who control both, have their grievances relieved?

Isn't the denial of suffering that goes unchallenged the worst?

Antisemitism is racism. It's not something else,

it's not more or less worse, or more complicated.

It's racism. If you don't want to fight racism in all its forms,

in equal measure, you can't fight antisemitism.

And it's not a tool to be used, not a shield to rise

to 'defend' Israel, like Tony Blair and his alike think.

They think it's in the arsenal of politics,

but so did think the Czars and the Nazis in their day.

06.06.2015