Several lobby groups in the UK with strong links to the British government first pressured music giant Spotify and then imposed key changes on the company’s organisational structure.
, Israel does not extend even basic respect to Palestinians.
Pro-Palestinian music can challenge audiences to not only think about this but what to do about it. This is apparent where Lowkey, in “Long Live Palestine”, raps about the harsh living conditions of Palestinian living in refugee camps, within the Occupied Territories:Stars, think of othersThose who have lost the right to speakEnergised by the emotional impact or force of music, such lyrics have the potential to mobilise people.
The lobby does not limit itself to public relations. It’s committed to demobilising pro-Palestinian initiatives, ultimately aimed towards justice for Palestine., informing him that a library had censored one of his books, well-known American literary critic Charles Bukowski observes: “Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.” Though Bukowski wrote this originally for a private audience, it applies to the Israeli lobby as well.
In attempting to censor pro-Palestinian music, it seeks to suppress awareness of those “actualities” that implicate Israel and for which it still needs to be held fully accountable, disposessing them of their land and homes, destroying their agriculture, imprisoning them without properPro-Palestinian music defies such suppression. It insists that, however uncomfortable it may sometimes make us, we consider what Palestinians are forced to endure.
It means that we, true to our common humanity, are upset by injustice not only when it happens to us but others too. Like artists who create pro-Palestinian music we can channel that, whatever our talents, into ending such injustice for good.David Miller is a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs at Istanbul Zaim University and a former Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bristol.
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