no longer wandering
in the wilderness
we have become
the pharaoh
Tema Okun’s new poem examines how the Israeli military uses Palestinians for “experimenting the latest weaponry of war on fenced in old men, pregnant women, toddlers.”
Tema Okun shares a poem reflecting on her taxi ride leaving the Jewish Voice for Peace conference in Chicago where her Jewish Israeli taxi driver shouted at her that she is not a Jew.