The Weaponizing of Empathy

Empathy is the homage paid by those who’re quite unwilling

to pay the price demanded by morality,

vicarious vice

of being nice,

providing spacious leg room for emotions overspilling

on spurious grounds not based upon legality.

The morality of killing human shields in order to prevent

massacres like that committed by Hamas leads to attacks

on Jews which empathy inspires, and lamentably max-

imizes Jewish scapegoats providing Hamas’s crimes ham atonement

for its monstrous murderous massacre, as unforgiveable

as lies they tell about the Jews, lies sadly too long-liveable.

Empathy that by morality is being weaponized

in a manner that is shamefully immoral

now causes Jews throughout the world to be chastised,

a parody of what’s horrifically non-fiction, with no moral.

Just as the massacre of Jews that was organized by the Nazis generated Holocaust denial, the massacre of Jews by Hamas terrorists has generated an equally contemptible response, antisemitism.

Gershon Hepner is a poet who has written over 25,000 poems on subjects ranging from music to literature, politics to Torah. He grew up in England and moved to Los Angeles in 1976. Using his varied interests and experiences, he has authored dozens of papers in medical and academic journals, and authored “Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel.” He can be reached at gershonhepner@gmail.com.