POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE
golden sheaves spread in school yard salt coast grown, resistant stems of native centuries warned from homes to wretched refuge without respite no shafts to freedom where none are safe threat of grass and budding seed shields real estate coveted by lawnmower men with tunnel vision of western pretexts, colonial deterrents to permanence, not never …
In its latest manufactured spectacle of horrendous violence, Operation Protective Edge, Israel broke an 18 month truce and fired on Hamas first, although this was just one of many significant breaches Israel perpetrated against Gaza since November 2012. “Because memories are short. On 29 June, Israel killed a Hamas member in Gaza. On 30 June, …
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They shot the child in her innocent beauty said she was a human shield she made them do it they said yet she was just a child.
Another show in apartheid Tel Aviv which has been cancelled since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge attack of the captive people of Gaza commenced on July 8 is Brian Jonestown Massacre. The band’s performance was due yesterday, 15 July. They cancelled at the very last minute on Monday, 14 July. The group was split right in …
After investigating the Palestinian-led call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel, US rapper artist Talib Kweli announced on twitter that he would respect BDS. Kweli was supposed to appear in an international hip-hop, funk and groove festival planned for mid-August at Hadera. “As much as I want to play Israel, I have decided not to …
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