Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, which is a U.S. Gov’t cocnern. My friend Bob Feldman writes:
"If you do an advanced search on the Smithsonian music site by ‘country,’ you’ll find that for ‘Palestine Territory’ there apparently are just 5 albums being distributed, while for ‘Israel’ there are 51 albums being distributed, including an album containing songs from the IDF."
Feldman notes, "What you might also notice about the Smithsonian music site is that under its genre category, ‘Judaica’, the Smithsonian appears to be still distributing many more albums that appear to have been made from a pro-Zionist historical perspective (including one that appears to present Theodore Herzl in a positive way, etc.). (Links: Four pages of albums, under Judaica, most of them seemingly Zionist songs. Reenactment of Herzl’s Diaries.)
"I thought you might be interested in checking out the Paredon album of Palestinian songs from the 1970s– Palestine Lives!– that’s posted on the Smithsonian music site at the following link (which also contains liner notes that describe Middle East history from a Palestinian left perspective), in case you haven’t already listened to this album before."
