{"id":14026,"date":"2021-07-22T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/labouring-the-point-a-colonial-question\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:43:15","slug":"labouring-the-point-a-colonial-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/labouring-the-point-a-colonial-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Labouring the point &#8211; a colonial question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4d591f647cf00c8ebe53ff77085fcb9a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4d591f647cf00c8ebe53ff77085fcb9a.jpg 318w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4d591f647cf00c8ebe53ff77085fcb9a-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4d591f647cf00c8ebe53ff77085fcb9a-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4d591f647cf00c8ebe53ff77085fcb9a-10x5.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Labouring the point &#8211; a colonial question<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Alexis Lykiard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The endless, questionable anti-Semitism fuss<br \/>Is media-stoked to fool the credulous and hoodwink us \u2013<br \/>All those presuming to deplore, or even criticise,<br \/>The fact that stolen acres are annexed by Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the so-called Promised Land\u2019s a living hell<br \/>For its original inhabitants the Palestinian folk,<br \/>A peaceful people, whom the Zionists coerced to dwell<br \/>Under their military rule, apartheid yoke.<\/p>\n<p>The dispossessed and brutalised \u2013 here\u2019s irony! \u2013 are forced<br \/>Through daily cruelty to heed that distant Holocaust<br \/>For which they\u2019re blameless; elsewhere Gentiles must apologise<br \/>Sheepishly for European history, ad infinitum.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians, flush with cash, close ranks to sneer and fight them \u2013<br \/>Dissenters, any conscience-driven humans who resist<br \/>The shrillest imprecations of the Zionist.<br \/>And yet what Palestinian would accept this unjust fate,<br \/>Repressive occupation by a racist State?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labouring the point &#8211; a colonial question by Alexis Lykiard The endless, questionable anti-Semitism fussIs media-stoked to fool the credulous and hoodwink us \u2013All those presuming to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}