'Antisemitism: how the origins of history’s oldest hatred still hold sway today' (The Conversation UK)

So far do the worshipers of Israel go

that now they claim there was no hate

in the massed ranks of humanity

before Jews emerged and came

to be oppressed and hated. So

naive, flattering view of humankind:

That for two point eight million years

we would have lived

without hating!

Yet we killed all those two point eight million years,

our hominid kin until they were no more,

our sibling branches until they were no more

and ourselves; twelve thousand years

ago we massacred an entire tribe,

but apparently, now we are told,

without hate. Five and half thousand years

ago we sacked and slaughtered Tell Hamoukar

of the high walls, and no one

lived there for centuries. Yet,

now we are told, we did it without hate,

just like those in Tell Hamoukar,

before we closed the siege

massacred the Sumerian outpost before the walls.

All without hate, all our wars

and the cities that went down in flames,

Ilion among them. All the blood

that flowed on the stones and dried on the sand

was shed without hate. Did

we then do it out of love, or

without feeling, until Jews

came along and we finally found

hate inside us, mindless, raging hate?

Or, dear Zionists, was it all along there,

in the blood, marrow and neurons of humanity,

the hate with its many victims

in these two point eight million years?¨

'Antisemite!'

26.04.2018