Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readApr 29, 2022

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Thank you for asking. The words “and Zion” from the lines, “Britain and Europe divide what’s deemed minor, Dominated by kings, bigwigs and Zion,” make the poem antisemitic. I pointed this out to him in private notes when I read the poem two months ago--that the inclusion of those two words propagates the stereotypical and scapegoating myth that Jews control the world, used by Hitler and others, to cause the Holocaust and other genocide against Jews. The writer responded that Jews are too sensitive. I stayed somewhat private on this matter for months but when I saw that yesterday was Yom Hashoah (National Holocaust Remembrance Day ( https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/yom-hashoah-holocaust-memorial-day/ ) I was sparked to go back into the poem and leave comments to educate many of the readers who gushed and fawned over what they believed to be a great poem. The antisemitism in the poem is subtle, but very dangerous. It is precisely this type of undercurrent that when rises to the surface that led to the Holocaust

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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