In print and as an ebook from Guerre and Shalom, an imprint of Mitzpe Press, on 17 November 2026.
To those who sit alone,
I sit with you.
And together we are home.
“The world is taking the f—king piss.”
That’s the first line. The last three are at the top of this page. In between, Daniel Clarke-Serret, a barrister, puts the world on trial. Eighteen indictments in poetry-prose written after October 7 — meant to be heard.
Hamas takes the stand. So do the United Nations, the universities, and the BBC he grew up loving, right down to a licence fee he’s no longer sure he should pay. Palestinian flags crowd the balconies of the Basque Country while the neighbours keep their heads down and the author cries with rage.
Then he turns round and indicts his own side: an Israeli government he believes is wrecking its democracy and a rule of descent that leaves his daughter asking what she is if she isn’t a Jew.
It’s rude, it’s funny, and it doesn’t let anyone off. And at the end it finds the stranger: in Ibn Gabirol’s Zaragoza and the hearts of all those who weep with dismay. Will you join them?
Foreword by Andrew Fox.
Daniel Clarke-Serret is a Founding Fellow of the Mitzpe Institute.
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