First they came for anyone in Israel no matter their race, religion, gender, age, or nationality ...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
Then they took the Bibas babies hostage, and murdered them...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
They targeted Jews on university campuses...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
They murdered Jews in the capital of America, Washington DC...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
They murdered us on the beach while celebrating Hanukkah...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
They came for the Christians in Africa, murdering fathers and stealing daughters as concubines...
We spoke up, but you didn't listen.
They smashed store windows, graffitied swastikas, chanted gas the Jews and globalize the intafada...
You yelled back...
All Eyes on Rafah, genocide, apartheid, colonial invaders!!
We asked for solidarity.
We got silence.
So what happens if we can no longer speak up?
You will find that the silence doesn't just swallow us—it eventually comes for you, too.
But until then, we write. We remember. And we survive until the world finds its voice again.
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