Zephaniah Zaps Zionists: How a Bad Poem Reveals the Ugliness and Evil of Judeo-Leftism

Benjamin Zephaniah was a bad poet with a low IQ. But he was also Black and leftist, so he enjoyed huge success and acclaim before his death in 2023. It didn’t matter that he wrote woeful poetry. No, what mattered what he wrote woke poetry. And one of his woeful woke poems is a racial recipe — a recipe for cooking up “The British.” It celebrates everyone from Picts, Romans and Jutes to Pakistanis, Somalis and Malaysians.

Rebuking racist Robert

Zack Polanski, the ugly Jewish leader of Britain’s Green Party, has recently rebuked racist Robert by reciting that recipe. “Racist Robert” is Robert Jenrick, the Zionist politician who complained about not seeing a “white face” when he visited a heavily enriched district in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city. Jenrick is married to a Jew and thinks that “the Star of David should be displayed at every point of entry to the UK to show” that “we stand with Israel.” It’s obvious that he’s working for Israel and Jewish interests, not for the White British. But he’s an interesting example of how, since the Hamas attack on Israel, some powerful Jews have ordered their shabbos goyim to start campaigning against DEI and Islam. His comments about Birmingham were loudly condemned by British leftists and Zack Polanski rebuked his racism by reciting Benji’s bad poem. Here’s a video of the recital and the text of one version of the poem. See if you can spot a horrifying omission from the list of racial ingredients for “Britishness”:

British. pic.twitter.com/jnB0xVQ2Fw

— Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) October 16, 2025

Video of Zack Polanski reciting “The British” by Benjamin Zephaniah

“The British”

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
And let them settle,
Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.
Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
Add lots of Norman French to some
Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.
Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,
Vietnamese and Sudanese.
Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians
And Pakistanis,
Combine with some Guyanese
And turn up the heat.
Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians,
Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some
Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese
And Palestinians
Then add to the melting pot.
Leave the ingredients to simmer.
As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish
Binding them together with English.
Allow time to be cool.
Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future,
Serve with justice
And enjoy.

Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste.

Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all. (“The British” by Benjamin Zephaniah)

Punim of a poetaster: the ugly mug of bad Black poet Benjamin Zephaniah (Wikipedia)

Do you spot the omission from Benji’s bollocks about Britishness? Oy veh — he didn’t mention Jews! And I think the omission was entirely deliberate, because he did mention “Palestinians.” Like it or not, Jews have been important in British history, vastly over-represented for many decades in politics, academia, media and the arts. But Palestinians? They’ve been utterly insignificant in British history, both culturally and demographically. So have some of the other groups mentioned by the woeful woke poet: Malaysians, Kurds and Bosnians, for example.

Propagandizing for Palestine

I conclude that Benjamin Zephaniah was deliberately excluding Jews from his bad poem about Britishness, which he wrote in 2009 or earlier. He was also breaking his own principles: “All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste.” Zephaniah certainly knew that Jews are a big “ingredient” in the racial recipe of Brave New Britain, yet he excluded Jews from his poem even as he included the minor ingredient of Palestinians. In other words, Zephaniah was zapping Zionists — propagandizing on behalf of Palestinians against Jews who support Israel. That must leave a “bitter unpleasant taste” for Jews, who have long regarded Blacks and other non-Whites as “natural allies” against the White majority of Britain and other Western nations.

Jews felt the same “bitter unpleasant taste” after the Black punk-rapper Bobby Vylan led a chant of “Death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]” at the famous Glastonbury Music Festival. As I said in my article about the vibrantly vulval Vylan, the chant was a horrifying example of how the Jews’ “natural allies” have turned out to be Nazi-adjacent. After Hamas murdered, raped and kidnapped hundreds of Israeli Jews in October 2023, Jews in the West watched in dismay as their “natural allies” poured onto the streets of New York, London and Paris not in support of poor persecuted Israel but of murderous and rapist-replete Hamas.

Hilary harassed by Hamas-fans

Since October 7, more and more Jews have begun to understand that, by organizing and supporting non-White immigration, they’ve imported not “natural allies” but natural enemies. As long as they thought the mud flood was bad for Whites, they were all in favor of it. Now that they’ve realized it’s also bad for Jews, they’re having second thoughts. You can see those second thoughts appearing in Jewish media outlets like the Jewish Chronicle, where the Jewish journalist Hilary Freedom has recently described the “18 months of hell” she endured at the hands of some “natural allies” in east London:

My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists

It began with a bake sale to raise funds for Palestine, became a campaign of harassment and ended with transferring my child to another primary. I went through 18 months of hell

Like thousands of parents all over the UK, I am currently in the process of applying for secondary schools, filling out an online form that will determine my daughter’s future. It’s stressful for all Jewish parents, but, for my family, that stress is amplified by the numerous examples of antisemitism that we have endured since October 7.

When we moved here, five years ago — yards from one end of Cable Street — I was fully aware that I would be living in a majority Bangladeshi Muslim area. I was not concerned. I have Muslim friends and have always believed in multiculturalism, in diversity. And besides, the primary school we chose had a wonderful, inspirational Ashkenazi Jewish headteacher known for fostering cross-community relations.

As the only Jewish child at the school — indeed, reportedly the only Jewish child ever to have gone there — our daughter was regarded as a curiosity by some of the other children. A few refused to believe she was Jewish, insisting that she must be Christian. But there were no real issues. We even took in apples and honey for her class to enjoy at Rosh Hashanah.

That all changed on October 7, 2023. My problems began with a parents’ WhatsApp group discussion over a bake sale to raise money for Palestine. I objected to the anti-Israel rhetoric in the thread, pointing out that the group was for school matters, not politics, and that some of the messages upset me. I explained that my cousin’s wife had been murdered at Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7. I asked for understanding.

If anything, my revelation seemed to inflame them more. For the first time I understood that some have absolutely no compassion for dead Israelis or those who mourn them. Palestine flag emojis began appearing in the WhatsApp names in the group, mirroring the flags that had sprung up on every lamppost in the area. Someone removed my admin status. Micro-aggressions, that made me feel I was no longer welcome.

Yes, I had been naive. I had not realised just how anti-Israel the tight-knit, religious local community was. I wasn’t aware that Bangladesh not only refuses to recognise Israel, but also bans its citizens from travelling there and doesn’t allow those with Israeli passports to enter. To some brought up in this culture, Zionism is evil. And now that I had revealed myself as a Zionist, I had become a non-person, a legitimate target. (“My daughter and I were targeted at her school for being Zionists,” The Jewish Chronicle, 23rd October, 2025)

Hamasite-harassed Hilary Freeman supports Israel at Facebook

Why has Hilary Freeman “always believed in multiculturalism, in diversity”? Because she thinks they are good for Jews and, conversely, bad for ancestrally Christian Whites, whom Jews like Freeman still regard as potential oppressors and anti-Semites. Bangladeshis are non-White and non-Christian, so what’s not to like about importing them in huge numbers into Britain?

Well, Hilary Freeman has started to think that Bangladeshi immigration has its downsides. And if she had paid attention to her near-namesake Jonathan Freedman, she might not have been so “naïve” about her move to a Bangladeshi-enriched district in London. Here is Jonny the Jew writing about Bangladeshi anti-Semitism in London twenty years ago:

On March 27 1945 one of the last V2 rockets of the war landed on Hughes Mansions, a block of low-cost housing in London’s East End. Among the 134 people killed, 120 were Jews. Last Sunday [10 April 2005], survivors of the blast and relatives of those killed came back to Hughes Mansions for a memorial service. I was there along with much of my family, including my mother. Her own mother, Feige, and aunt Rivvy were among those killed 60 years ago. It took a full day to find them in the rubble.

People were choked with emotion from the start; they had come back to the spot where they had seen brothers, sisters, parents and friends die. They were expecting to feel sorrow. What they did not bargain for was fear. Within minutes, the mourners were pelted, first with vegetables, then with eggs. Some said they saw stones; others said they had been spat at. Gathered in old age to remember their dead, they felt under siege.

Looking around, it was difficult to spot individual culprits. All that were visible were groups of young Asian [i.e. Bangladeshi] men, standing on the balconies of the rebuilt block. Among the dignitaries at the service was the local MP, Oona King. When she spoke, she attacked the “ignorance” of the assailants and insisted that their real target was her. […] Most of those there thought it much more straightforward. They believed this was an attack by Muslims on Jews. After all, the men wore skullcaps, the prayers were in Hebrew. There was no doubt who they were.

Pre-war Jews, like today’s East End Muslims, also lived in unforgiving poverty. They too were herded into the cramped streets of East London as the first stop for new immigrants. They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society. And they too were feared as a potential fifth column, suspected adherents of a violent, supranational ideology. The “Jewish menace” was said to be first anarchism and then Bolshevism. Today’s “Muslim peril” is jihadism. This is what grieved some of those mourners most. As they huddled together in fear, one spoke for all when she said: “This is so wrong. We should be on the same side.” (“Reviled as outsiders,” The Guardian, 16th April 2005)

By “the same side,” the fearful Jew meant “the anti-White, anti-Christian side.” It was obvious back in 2005 that Bangladeshis and other Muslims are not “natural allies” of Jews, but leftist Jews preferred to ignore that and accentuate the positive. After all, Muslims are definitely natural enemies of Whites and Christians. However, since the October 7 attack on Israel, even leftist Jews have begun to doubt that Muslims and other non-Whites are quite so good for Jewish interests as they once appeared. Hilary Freeman is one of those Jews. She has “always believed in multiculturalism, in diversity,” but now she’s kvetching in the Jewish Chronicle about the “18 months of hell” she’s endured from Bangladeshi Muslims in London.

Ugly punim, ugly poem

Zack Polanski isn’t one of those Jews now doubting the value of their “natural allies.” As leader of the Green Party, Polanski still believes in open borders and maximal minority worship. When he recited Benji’s bollocks about Britishness, he must have noticed that Jews weren’t included in the racial recipe. But he preferred to ignore that and use the poem as anti-White propaganda. There was even a shot of a proudly fluttering Palestinian flag when he recited a bit about “some Palestinians.”

Ugly Zeph, ugly Zack: two shots from Polanski’s poetry-recital (see video here)

But there’s more to note in Zack’s video in celebration of vibrancy. I was struck by the ugliness of everything in it, from Polanski’s punim to the bad poetry he was reciting to the unshaven ethnics he was shown shaking hands with as he toured the dirty, run-down streets of enriched Birmingham. And the video had a shot of a mural of Benjamin Zephaniah’s ugly mug. As I’ve often pointed out at the Occidental Observer, ugliness is intrinsic to leftism. So is evil. I fully agree with what the White nationalist blogger Morgoth has said about Polanski and his party:

I get bad vibes from the Green Party, folks. I get that they’re a tiny party of nutballs now, but I feel like something monstrous dwells within.

They make me sort of sick.

There’s a dark aura of foreshadowing about them. That Fagin [the Jewish master-thief in Dickens] fella, and the little goblin woman [former Green leader Carla Denyer].

It’s not right, I’m telling you. (Morgoth at Twitter, 6th October 2025)

That Fagin feller and the little goblin woman: Zack Polanski and Carla Denyer

Mass immigration has been central to the evil visited on Whites and the West by Jews and their leftist allies. Do you recall how the Jew Hilary Freeman kvetched about her “18 months of hell” in east London? Well, compare what she went through with what some Whites have experienced in the same place from the same imported enrichers. Here’s a long-forgotten story about some boisterous Bangladeshis:

A South Quay construction superviser may never work again after a horrific attack by a gang of youths left him paralysed down his right side. John Payne, who oversees refurbishment at London Underground stations for Construction Resources Ltd in Lutomer House, South Quay, was trying to protect two young female friends during the assault in Stepney [East London] on Monday, April 8, at around 11.30pm.

His stepfather, Ricky Jackson, said John, 32, was walking home with Sarah O’Leary and Jenny Curran, both 21, and two other men when a gang of youths began shouting at the group. John told them to go away, but they were set upon, with John and the other two men trying to protect the girls as they attempted to make it to one of the group’s houses 15 yards away.

Jenny, according to John’s family, was struck on the head and body with an iron bar as John tried to protect her along with Denny Curran, 20, who also works for Construction Resources Ltd, and Paul Whitehall, 30. The group were then totally outnumbered as “15 or 16 more guys appeared armed with machetes, axes, knives and hammers,” according to Mr Jackson, of Beckton. He added: “John was hacked about the head and knocked unconscious and Denny threw himself on top of John fearing that the next blow would kill him. In doing this he was struck with a machete over the back of the head, slicing a large area of scalp to the bone.”

When Jenny regained consciousness she held John’s split skull together in her hands as they waited for the police to arrive, and John was taken to intensive care at the Royal London Hospital.

He remains in hospital and is paralysed down the right side of his body. Mr Jackson said: “His skull was crushed with such force that pieces of bone were embedded in his brain. The surgeons operated but concluded that it would be more dangerous to remove the fragments and could do him even more harm.”

John’s cousin Debbie Granger said: “He has got some slight movement back in his fingers, but we are not sure if he will be able to walk again properly, let alone return to work.”

John will now need specialist care and counselling, as he is suffering severe depression and has had a couple of seizures since the attack. (“Paralysed after Machete Attack,” 27th April 2006)

That was Bangladeshis enriching Whites. When the White schoolboy Kriss Donald was doused in gasoline and incinerated, it was Pakistanis. When the White schoolgirl Charles Downes was raped, murdered and dismembered, it was a Jordanian and an Iranian. When White schoolgirls were blown up at a pop concert, it was a Libyan. When the White mother Tracey Mertens was abducted and incinerated in a churchyard, it was two Blacks, probably Jamaicans. It was certainly a Jamaican who committed scores or even hundreds of life-shortening rapes and sexual assaults against elderly White women (and some men) in London. It’s an Afghan who has just allegedly stabbed a White dogwalker to death in London. Et cetera, et cetera, ad nauseam.

But to the best of my knowledge, Palestinians haven’t yet committed any bestial crimes on British soil. I confidently predict that Palestinians will soon big up the bestiality, because they’re now being imported into Britain in growing numbers by the left. The Guardian has just reported that a “UK rule change allows Palestinian scholars to bring families from Gaza.” And guess who campaigned for the “rule change” for the “scholars”? The Jew Enver Solomon, chief executive of the Refugee Council, had previously said: “It is excessively harsh to tell students fleeing the appalling devastation in Gaza that while they can study safely here, they must leave their loved ones behind. No one should be forced to choose between their education and their family.” That’s not the wisdom but the wickedness of Solomon. It will soon lead to Palestinians committing bestial crimes on British soil.