We need to talk about
Itamar Ben-Gvir
An Israeli politician
Who many people fear
Itamar has a vision
Of a Greater Israel state
With no room for Palestinians
This man is full of hate
But what’s his ideology?
What’s in his twisted mind?
To understand him and his ilk
We must go back in time
Remember Baruch Goldstein?
He walked in a Hebron mosque
Gunned people as they prayed
29 lives were lost
Itamar had Baruch’s portrait
In his living room
A shrine to a murderer
Above his silver spoons
Both Baruch and Itamar
Were in the Kach movement
A terrorist organisation
Banned by the government
The leader of Kach
Was Rabbi Meir Kahane
A criminal from Brooklyn
Who rose to Israeli fame
When he entered the Knesset
In 1984
Saying slavery or deportment
For Palestinians should be law
Kahane took his ideology
From the Cabbala
Which sees non-Jews as evil
And predicts two Messiah
The first will be a militant
And prepare for the second
Who will redeem the world through miracles
And bring about an armageddon
The first messiah will come, they say
Riding on a donkey
This means religious Zionists
Using Israel as a flunkey
Itamar and his gang
Think it’s the messianic age
They’re kicking the donkey forward
To achieve the final stage
They see war in Palestine
As breaking Satan’s power
Purifying the land
To bring about the hour
They say talmudic law applies
Permitting them to kill
A child for throwing stones
Or even one who they think will
These beliefs lie at the heart
Of how Israel behaves
Imprisoning children without charge
Bombing Gazans to their graves
It’s time for Jews of conscience
To make a different choice
Stop being a donkey
Give sanity a voice
Realise that Zionism
Is racist at its core
Call for a free Palestine
Put an end to war