-Brings tremendous prestige

– And envy as well.

In activist circles

The groups try their best

To get to the Top Ten.

They’re greatly distressed

If, despite all their efforts

The League has the gall

To simply ignore them with

No mention at all.

The usual hard workers

are there, it is true,

The US Campaign,

If Americans Knew,

JVP and Sabeel,

And Al-Awda too.

Before the List’s published

The groups are so fraught,

Oscars and Nobels

And Emmies are naught

Compared to winning

A place on The Ten.

Gossip runs rife till

The List’s out, and then

Those failing to make it

Feel put out and jealous,

They think that their work

Has been equally zealous

As those on the List

So how can it be

They’re omitted?

They feel really pissed.

“We’ve worked, oh, so hard

To expose the Apartheid

And cruel Occupation

by Israel” they cried.

“We’re not on the list

But it’s our firm belief

That we should be;

It’s causing us grief!”

Meanwhile Abe Foxman

Complains and asks why

We all criticize Israel;

Yet he really won’t try

To open his eyes

And see the oppression

Of Arabs is now

An Israeli obsession.

Occupation, sheer cruelty,

And Apartheid – no less,

Is why all the groups

Now support BDS.

The evil of Zionism’s

Apartheid is great.

Israel is clearly

A Terrorist State.

“Anti-Semites!” cries Foxman

God – what an old trick!

Can he really not come up

With something more slick?

What he’s yet to discover

–         it will give him the blues –

that many who oppose this Apartheid

are Jews.

– a humble activist.

Dedicated to the memory of the Turks and of Farrakhan Dogan, Turkish-American citizen murdered by Israel, May 31st 2010.