Thank you again... Shari... actually when I wrote the first version of this poem my main focus was the ideas of Dworkin who really shaped my thinking of feminism and she was a major reason why I grew in my understanding of 'right wing women', like my own family's Muslimish sibling-sisters. Her book, 'The Politics of Domesticated Females' is a rare gem in its philosophical depth and courageous feminist insights. The other element that was uppermost in my mind, was the experience of one Professor Tony Martin, who included a book which mainly drew on research by a Jewish PHD student, on the role of Jewish people in the Atlantic slave trade.

And there followed a concerted campaign to get him fired simply for the inclusion of one book in a short course for some 30 students.

The other element in the poem is asking how come the quote from the Torah, ( by the way, the quote did not get saved and I did not notice it failed to appear in the first version of the poem) and had no time to find the quote again) until this evening) is certainly not being manifested by those promoting the spread of settlements into the occupied territories of Palestine....

Finally, why is it that because someone is critical of some aspect of jewish people's behaviour, that makes them automatically anti semitic? And similarly, if I critique some aspect of feminism, / Islam/ the case system associated with Hinduism, it does not make me anti-women or Islamophobic or anti Hinduism per se.