Category: Articles

Samer Issawi

Samer Issawi’s Victory Letter – English and Arabic

(translation by Tariq Shadid – see Arabic original below) God is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to God I thank God above all for this victory, and for his generosity in granting it to me. To start this letter, I would like to offer my apology to all who supported...

That Damned Fourth Reich – does ‘Israel’ qualify?

“Tariq Shadid’s music video Hungry is a great political rap song, reiterating and expanding the notion of hunger and the first to rhyme people with sheeple. It is marred by a refrain ’never charged, never tried by the damned fourth reich’. Israel is not comparable to the Third Reich. The Third Reich was powered by an annihilatory drive that began...

Mariam Barghouti

International solidarity with Palestine: personal observations by Mariam Barghouti

As regular readers of the Musical Intifada know, this website usually only published original material. Sometimes, however, a piece is written which is considered to be having such particular value, quality and importance, that an exception is made. Such is the case with this challenging piece by Palestinian activist Mariam Barghouti, which addresses some very important issues concerning international solidarity....

Roger Waters

Open Letter to Roger Waters: Don’t Drop Your Boycott Call

Dear Roger,   I feel fortunate that I don’t need to explain to you what the devastating effects of Israel’s expansionist policies have been, and continue to be. You are very well informed, and quite aware of the extensive misery that has befallen our people since the ethnic cleansing of our land in 1948 by Zionist terror organizations, the occupation...