A deep gulp of fresh Sumud
try as they might
in their bid
to further their genocide
the zionists
cannot create
Palestinian Hunger
desperate billionaires
invest without counting
in AI programs
and algorithms
and incremental weapons of fear
and imperialist appeasement plans
to maintain the siege
that leads to famine
but try as they might
they cannot
starve a people
by withholding
bread alone
there is no such thing
as Palestinian Hunger
at least
in the way
the corporate blueprint
of American Hunger
deprives us here
in the belly of the beast
of the memories
and wealth
and steadfastness
our ancestors offer
each dawn
that breaks
Palestinian children
break their fast
not with food
not with the apple
or the egg
they never knew
but with
a deep gulp
of fresh Sumud
(c) Julia Wright December 11, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Susan Abulhawa’s playgroundsforpalestine.org, to the steering committee of the GSF and to what remains of the family of Refaat Alareer assassinated by the IOF
Addressing the zionist language-snatchers
” There are things one simply cannot talk about.
There are words I can’t even say to anyone not even to myself “
( Testimony in Arabic of Wissam Rayan, one of the two brothers released after Trump’s “Peace” plan ceasefire as he tries to find words for the torture in Israeli prisons )
don’t dare tell us
what is unspeakable
because we know
don’t dare tell us
what is unspeakable
when you are the ones
who created
the horror
the torture
and crimes
there are still no names for
don’t dare to impose
on us your own definition
of unspeakability
by outlawing the use
of more and more of our words –
genocide
apartheid
woman
gender
dictionary
mathematics
by all means necessary
the legitimacy of self-defense
you invade our language
with word-mines
creating a voiceless desert
wishfully thinking
our speech will stop to flower
youTube subtitles
hollow out words like
murder
rape
and
suicide
to replace them
with letters and numbers
in the hope it will make the impact
of your violence disappear
as if we could not read
or hear
you try to lobotomize us
to remove
our literacy
our memory
but
Richard Wright
in “How Bigger Was Born”
was stubborn
when he wrote:
if Edgar Allan Poe had not existed,
this horror would have invented him
but
if hollow-eyed prisoners
return from Israeli dungeons
with the scars of sights
and all-light nights
they can never unsee,
their wordless tears
are invisible ink
but
our children are already telling us
fresh stories
and inventing
a new language
and
we sit in the trenches
on the rubble
of our stolen language,
defending it
with our poetry,
holding on to the wise whispers
of ancestors unsilenced,
and still able to speak out loud
the only words worth their while,
words lost in zionist translation –
a Love Supreme,
a Love Supreme
of Sumud
( c ) Julia Wright. December 12, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Susan Abulhawa’s playgroundsforpalestine.org, the steering committee of the GSF and to what remains of the family of Refaat Alareer assassinated by the IOF two years ago.
How do you want your american dream to be served? – a satirical poem
how do you want your american dream
to be served –
like your BDS-threatened hamburgers
rare, medium rare or well done
or
barbecued to a crisp –
and side -dished
with special bread
without gluten
as long as it is replaced
with chemically engineered starch
costing five quid a bucket?
where do you want your american dream vacation
booked –
in a marble floored bunker
whose address is guaranteed protected
against the madding People
and their maddening Sumud
or
on the floating glitzy metropolis
of a cruise ship
targeting rebelling orcas
or
a roundtrip first class ticket
to watch the genocide in Gaza
unfold
without intermezzo
from armchairs
under parasols
with binoculars
and cordon bleu refreshments offered?
the american dream
is for sale –
an alibi
for those who can afford to buy it –
the billionaires
the warmongering CEOS
and those
scared
of the self-defeating shadows
cast
by the capitalist canker
in their souls
(c ) Julia Wright December 17, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Susan Abulhawa’s playgroundsforpalestine.org, to the steering committee of the GSF and to what remains of the family of Refaat Alareer assassinated by the IOF two years ago.
In their eyes, it is not Gaza but gas that counts
back then
my forefathers and foremothers
in Poland
had to pay for the railroad tickets
to a “holiday camp” –
the actual destination
where they were gassed
today Trump, Bibi and the UAE
want to make Gaza pay
with its own offshore oil and gas
for
a reconstruction
over which the Palestinians
being cleansed away
would have no say
it is not Gaza
but gas
that counts
timelines do not lie
the very day after the shooting
at Brown University
the corporate media
started a narrative “deployment”
against a place of higher education
whose War Research center
had let us know
the toll of journalists killed in Palestine
is higher than
in both world wars,
former Yugoslavia
Vietnam, Cambodia,
Ukraine and Afghanistan
combined
the very day after
the same gunman
murdered nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro
whose research on free energy
would have meant no gas bills
for the poor,
Bibi suddenly magnanimous and carefree
agreed
to send millions worth of gas
to Egypt
the agreement with Chevron says
it is from the Leviathan site
in Israel
but we know
that plans for a “Greater Israel”
includes gas and oil rich Gaza
how many times
can a Palestinian be killed –
by Nakba
by siege
by bombs
by genocide,
by theft of his ancestral land
by a Knesset-voted death penalty
by theft of his sovereign minerals
how many times
can a Palestinian be killed
with impunity
how many times?
(c) Julia Wright . December 19, 2025. All Rights Reserved to Susan Abulhawa’s playgroundsforpalestine.org, to the steering committee of the GSF and to what remains of the family of Refaat Alareer assassinated by the IOF.
