A group of refugee children pictured on the MS St Louis. Among those pictured, Walter and Herbert Karliner (both bottom left) went on to survive the war, but lost their entire family at Auchwitz. Picture: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Don AltmanSource:Supplied
Lee Diamond – The Voyage of the Damned
I am embarrassed to be a Jew
I am ashamed to be an Israeli
My Jewish and Israeli pride is deeply wounded
The People who were enslaved in bondage
The People who needed refuge
The same People who were denied refuge
By a world of racists who hated us
To the point of rejecting pleas for
Help
That nation is about to be guilty of the crime
That it accuses the world of:
Racism
Insensitivity
Participation in the potential of
Murder of others that it can save.
Why?
To keep a racist PM
And racist “unGodly”
“Religious parties”
Who fear Jewish blood might be mixed
With
the blood of asylum seekers!
THIS MUST BE STOPPED!
By the nation of Israel !
We must shake this nation to the core
Or lose our raison d’être:
“If I’m only for myself, what am I?”
If asylum seekers are to be deported
From Israel
All of us must stand
Millions of us
Arms locked
To physically stop this!
Or let us fade Into history as
a failed State and a failed People .
