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    Antisemitism is back in vogue
      thanks to a world gone rogue

   Some say it’s a fairly recent disease
      spare me the laughter please

   It’s been around ever since Patriarchal Days
      infecting all of history, an age-old malaise … 

   Why did Jacob flee Esau, journeying to Haran
      Esau would have murdered Jacob, had he not gone

   And who did Jacob encounter at journey’s end
      none other than Laban, at first a ‘good friend’

   Laban invited Jacob to stay for free for thirty days
      though he eventually swindled his nephew in so many ways

   Lied to him again and again, switching his bride on his wedding night
      endlessly changing his wages and working conditions – slight after slight

   Finally told his nephew: Your wives are mine, as are your sheep
      expecting Jacob would bend to slavery without so much as a peep 
  
   But to Laban, Jacob never once did bow… instead he fled
      then challenged Esau’s 400 men, backing them down… 

   Murderous Esau, freedom-denying Laban, cooked up twin recipes
      for legions of antisemites down through the ages, into our century

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