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I HAVE SEEN THE JEW
by Rabbi Shmully Hecht

With the Grace of G-d

Macho Timche Es Zecher Amalek 

Though shall eradicate all trace of Amelek

I have seen my enemy  

a massacre an atrocity;

Heinous barbarity 

For all the world to see 

I shall Annihilate IT with all my might 

It does not discern wrong from right;

And liberate humanity, 

Asian, Latin, black and white 

Reminiscent of a primitive time

murder, torture, rape; 

humans in the pillory, 

they snapped the human nape. 

Battles of Greece and Rome, 

Fowl winds of an ancient world;

lances, spears, swords, -they killed, 

guillotine and waterboard

I have pondered the crusades,

And read of Jews of Spain;

Grabbed their children, fled,

As they wept and bled  

And in the modern world,

gruesome smell of Zyklon B;

gallows and OPEN pits,

For all denizens to see. 

Ghettos, Warsaw, Lodz 

Kishinev, Babi Yaar;

Auschwitz and Treblinka, 

Barbarians is what they are  

Evil regimes, blood thirsty tyrants, 

brainwash and oppress;

Innocent people young and old, 

Hate they do profess.

The devil reappeared  

On Simchas Torah, Jewish day of dance; 

Make no mistake about it,

This was not happenstance

In sweeping pastures as we danced  

we were murdered at point blank; 

But that was not enough,  

Let us be totally frank

On playgrounds and open roads 

In their beds and cribs;

beheaded and burned alive, 

They murdered our innocent Kids 

To incarcerate, assassinate 

Mutilate, obliterate; 

Dis-create, and extirpate, 

Hack to death

Annihilate,

They have redefined the word; HATE 

Then on motorcades they returned,

With our beautiful children like a cattle herd;

Begging for Abba, Ema, Dad, Mom,

God in heaven have you not heard?

Holocaust survivors,

heroes of our time;

Were dragged with loved ones,

yours and mine;

Can it happen again,

in this modern time;

It has indeed,

An unbearable crime.

They kidnapped our sister

on a motorbike;

Filmed the footage,

Savages did strike

She begged she shrieked

To her lover in tow;

dragged by beasts,

a horror show

Troglodytes of another kind

Unconceivable in any mind;

Weve lived through hell, an agonizing week,

The enemy’s obliteration we must now seek

Yet, wholesale murder on Jewish land

For the enemy did not suffice;

Hostages they now keep,

A pogrom not once, but twice 

Kidnapped elderly

and infirm;

Our fathers and mothers

boys and girls;

To underground bunkers of a town

they created;

A hell on earth

yet they are… elated

parading around

with naked corpses;

humans slayed

like diseased horses;

humanity shall attest

that the enemy shall die;

with no reprieve

we shall cry

their own innocent children

live in squalor;

a choice they made

they call it Honor

Blame it on

Zionist jews,

in Tel Aviv

and Jerusalem:

an unfathomable lie

the sinister sin;

Propaganda

The Islamic World’s sin

Occupation a myth

A fiction;

Jews Left Gaza

with conviction

The subsequent Islamic occupiers

Murder and slay;

Kill their own people

For being Gay

We shall universally coin

a new phrase,

Lest Jews are forgotten

in the biased haze

Jewmanitarian Crisis: Jewmanitarian Crisis: Jewmanitarian Crisis!

It shall be;

Or the UN can close down,

If Jews can’t be free

A Pogrom in the Holy land

Once,

A wholesale kidnapping

A Pogrom Twice,

Holding hostage their own people

A pogrom Thrice

The nemesis of freedom, 

Defying truth, justice and liberty; 

Has raised its head again, 

For all the world did see 

And our adversary found its comrades 

Not worthy of a given name 

With no fraction of humanity 

They simply have no shame.   

We shall never forget the silent 

As they watch and stand by;

So Naïve…for they will be next  

For celebrating, as others die  

Alas, I have seen my enemy  

a massacre an atrocity 

Heinous barbarity 

For all the world to see 

I shall annihilate IT with all my might 

It does not discern wrong from right  

And liberate humanity, 

Asian, Latin, black and white 

Yet I have also seen my friends 

Nobility, the human race; 

I can see your face 

forever to embrace 

It is to you I write this elegy 

Of affection and love;

you stood up for humanity 

like Manna from above

In ancient odes and chronicles  

I’ve engaged with loyal friends;

In the annals of history, 

at all turns and bends  

For Taking risk amidst the mayhem 

G-d will surely bless you; 

History’s memory, a legacy,

has been freshly written, anew.

I have examined your heroism 

In early human times; 

I embrace your posterity

Intolerant of today’s crimes

Dauntless and courageous,

You hailed from far and near;

Rescuing innocent neighbors

saving Jews, you volunteered;

Poles hid Jews in cellars

Albanians fed us in the dark;

French kept up the resistance

As the Gestapo snarled and barked

You stormed the beach of Normandy

Petrified you swam

To fight the Nazis then Commies

And broke the Berlin Dam

I have seen you in the White House 

In the congress and the Senate;

Roaming city Hall, 

grace, tact and tenet

Sleepless nights at the Pentagon

The FBI and CIA;

President Biden, Your spirit is defiant,

In war against evil there is no grey

You heroes span the globe 

Hence we have chatted online;

I have met you on the street  

In your home and mine 

With tears I read your notes 

Of compassion and love; 

As they murder the innocent, 

Gentle as a dove.  

To stand up when its tough 

Your mom taught you well;

to protect the innocent,  

When enduring living hell 

On the bow of the Eisenhower

You sail the mighty sea

heroes of US military

that keep the whole world free

Our brothers in the marine corp,

gallant navy seals on deck;

Pilots in the cockpit

Destroy the enemy! make a wreck!

In the classrooms and libraries

You argue with the fools;

Who, though so very educated,

Are the liars tools

For justice and for truth 

You contest with reason;

Be it times of peace or war 

In every place and every season!

You demonstrate for liberty, 

values of the West;

You - the Nations of the World 

Yes You. humanities best 

I’ve observed you at the rallies,

To show your face, you ran;

New York, Toronto, London,

Even Shibuya Japan 

Christian brothers

Have reached out,

Tibetan resisters

Raised a shout;

Op-eds of love

Weve all received,

Mormons, atheist

All bereaved

Catholics, Hindus

Women, men;

Have raised a clamor

Never again

I can see you in the crowd

I truly love you all;

I can see you in my dreams,

We shall dance again at the ball

Indeed I have seen my friends 

Nobility, the human race; 

I can see your face 

forever to embrace 

It is to you I pen this elegy 

Of affection and love 

you stood up for humanity 

you have done so with love

And I have also seen the Jew,

Divine Nation, this is true;

A small people, just a few,   

I know you’ve seen him too

Of no particular color

I have the seen the Jew

Racial trace or mother tongue,

He’s just like me and you

Our father Abraham

Sought to save the few,

Of Sodom and Amora

That he would accrue

Our leader Moses

Challenged G-d too;

Despite decrees of Pharoah

And the Egyptian curfew

Queen Esther pled for her nation

The Purim story, Its true

Chana gave her seven boys

Who tragically never grew

I’ve seen the Jews of the middle ages

Expelled with no clue;

Of where to run, hide or turn

As the inquisition blew

Burned at the stake

for preaching One;

God on Earth

The stars, moon and Sun

Jews of Damasus, 1840

Tortured for crimes they never knew;

I have seen Jews

blamed for every coup

First they called us communists

Then Capitalists and Gay;

Free Markets and slavery

A new libel every day

And I have seen the jews of excellence

For this I have no shame;

Nobels, Rhodes and Pulitzers

Too many too name

It was the Jews Who stood up

for African American rights;

Marched with Martin Luther King

Taking America to New Heights

To liberate women,

we did our share,

Indeed a chosen people

Taught the world to care

And to you my students

I loudly utter;

A lexicon of praise,

there is no other

Be Champions of freedom,

partisans on the rail line;

as your classmates spew hate

and senior faculty do whine,

proportionality, sectionality

they have simply lost their minds;

this is the war for liberty

despite their tenured blinds

Ivy league naivete,

University bubble;

modern swamps, the new jungle,

Fascist rhetoric they mumble

Stand as Jews

Like generations so humble

the academy is at stake

the west will fall if we fumble

In the biased media

jew-hatred you will discover;

radical liars and bigots

anti-semites, mankind’s other

don’t hunker down in your in your dorm

or stand in back of your lecture hall;

say Hineieni I am ready

have the guts… have the gall

Had they murdered blacks

Or butchered gays,

you can be rest assured;

this deafening silence

you now hear

would not have been deffered;

they would’ve raised their voices and expel;

revoke tenure and raise hell

The hypocrisy of BLM

the deviancy of all that’s woke;

will echo for generations

“Our Universities are on coke”

Free discourse has been hijacked

the academy has lost its way

but the jews have never cowered

the Jew has never swayed

When they hung black boys in Mississippi

Alabama and Tennessee;

It was the Jews who got on buses

To make this country free

So say Hineieni I am ready

To restore the glory of free speech

Don’t be silent when they spew hatred

The first amendment is a two way street!

The plague of lies is not local

In this city of the Elm;

But it is our duty to raise our voices

And Yale will take the helm

Professors call me all the time

And in a whisper ask to dine;

To express convictions, I assure you

Are aligned with yours and mine

If Athens elects to disappear

Thereby closing the American mind

Drop out now and abandon ship

Let’s Leave the lunatics behind

And I have seen the Jew 

A Divine Nation, this is true 

A small people of just a few   

Surley you have met her too 

Of no particular color

I have the seen the Jew;

Racial trace or mother tongue,

He’s just like me and you

From the hilltops of Judea

To Yale’s old campus, Harvard Square;

I have seen the Jewish Nation,

Lions everywhere

Strangers run to JFK

To purchase tickets for our young boys;

And fill their bags with all their needs

Amidst the terminal, amidst the noise

We’re here to help they howl

There is no limit to what ill do;

When Jewish People go to war

Jews that look like me and you

As the call-up spread around the globe

They grabbed their friends, who said, “alright;”

We too will fly to Israel

In the darkness of night

Cargo planes packed with supplies

That volunteers sent, as mothers cried;

Mi kiamcha Yisroel

Go my son catch your flight

Landing on the tarmac

Of airport ben Gurion;

off to war we go

Jewish Youth One by one

Grab your luggage

soldiers first;

the cockpit announcement

loud and clear;

let them off to

fight the war;

descending the front

and the airplanes rear

On buses they go,

Some caught cabs;

As their kinsman of Jerusalem

Threw them bags;

Go my daughter

Go my son;

Off to war

Get it done

From work and school

The Jews do run

To save the captives

And say we won we won

Elderly Light candles in Tel Aviv

Holding a daughter, a young son;

Shema Yisroel Hear Oh Israel

The lord our God the Lord is one

Secular, religious we came together

A Nation of lions, the world should know;

Left and right, we stand forever

Am Yisroel Chai, our land we shall sow

to the front lines of the battlefield

well march with pride;

on roaring tanks side by side;

as the shopkeepers wave, flags with pride;

from the narrow sidewalks

on both sides

In roaring jets young boys fly

flight crews on runways say goodbye;

to our best and brightest

that didn’t seek this war

brought upon us, indeed one more.

Shema Yisroel Adonai Elohienu

Please g-d save us, we beg you we love you;

Adoinai Echad the Lord is one

Shine on us brightly until we’ve won

Gam Ki Eiliech Bigai Zalmaves Loi Irah Rah Ke Atah Emadi.

Even in the valleys of the shadows of death

I fear no evil for you are with me;

Mendel Beilis Hannah Senesh,

Captain Dreyfus our referees

Am lavadad yishkon

A nation alone does dwell;

Faithful fearless,

Even in living hell;

Vigar Ziav In Keves, Vinamer im Gdi Yirbatz, vieigel ukfir umri yachdav, vinaar katan noheg bohem

And the Day shall come

Its Isaiah Eleven;

The wolf will live with the sheep,

Yes on earth, not on heaven

The leopard will lie down

with the goat;

The Prophet

Reads;

The calf with the lion

and fatling;

as a young lad

leads

Who I ask is that child

that the Prophet does see;

perhaps a sophomore in this room

Moshiach Now, the whole world free.

A call for action

to live as Jews;

Men don the Tefiilin

Roll up your sleeves

Women light Shabos candles

On Friday eve;

And the blessing of Peace

The world shall receive

Who I ask is that child

that the Prophet does see;

perhaps a sophomore in this room

Moshiach Now, the whole world free.

For I have seen the Jew 

A Divine Nation, this is true;

A small people of just a few   

Surely you’ve met her too 

Of no particular color

Racial trace or mother tongue,

I have the seen the Jew

He’s just like me and you