A new mix of music, all for Palestine

Today’s mix is all for Palestine. All for Gaza. We need the whole world to speak up as a genocide is taking place in front of our very eyes.

As I’m writing this, one million people are being displaced in the world’s biggest open air prison, as bombs are being dropped and them and they have nowhere to run. Two million people live inside of Gaza’s walls, and half of them are children.

A war of stories is also taking place, as misinformation floods the covers of newspapers, and people argue that it’s “two sides” as if there was ever equal footing between Israel and Palestine. The word “terrorism” only seems to be used for people who are resisting a state of constant terror by whatever means they have left.

I want us all to be honest when we talk about terrorism, because in the United States we haven’t been honest about what terrorism is since September 11, 2001. The day the never-ending “war on terrorism” began. I say it’s a never-ending war, because war IS terrorism. You don’t get to peace through war. And you don’t get to peace by keeping an entire population trapped in an apartheid state.

Violence is the inevitable outcome of land theft, of oppression, of being trapped in an open-air prison for 75 years, while certain people in political power work to dehumanize you every time they speak.

That’s why these stories and this music is important.

Our freedom is bound up with the liberation of the Palestinian people, and yours is too.

A lot of the music in this mix isn’t available on streaming services, but I also have playlists available for you to share on Spotify, Tidal, and YouTube. (As I’m writing this, I’m learning that one of Lowkey’s videos has just been removed today from YouTube against his will. Watch for more censorship happening in this time.)

The full uncensored mix below features some of my own music, stories, and tracks from MC Abdul, Lowkey, Essam, DAM, Invincible, Native Guns, Suheir Hammad, Shadia Mansour, Narcy, Jasiri X, Lupe Fiasco, Ana Tijoux, Aisha Fukushima, and more.

If I was on the radio today, the show would sound a lot like this.

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