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Goosebumps video links American sacrifices in civil rights struggle to Palestinian protesters’ travails

One of my strongest impressions of my last trip to Palestine is what a great price people are paying for their sturdy resistance to occupation. This is also a theme of Budrus, the fine new documentary. Well now Sana Kassem (whose work we grabbed last week) sounds the same theme with another stirring video, this one marrying Barbara Dane’s civil-rights anthem, It Isn’t Nice (backed up by the Chambers brothers), to images of the struggle in Palestine. Notice especially the three last pictures in the sequence. And these lines:

They murdered folks in Alabama,

They shot Medgar in the back–

Did you say that isn’t proper?

Did you stand out on the track?

You were quiet just like mice,

Now you say that we’re not nice.

But if that’s freedom’s price, we don’t mind…

(Thanks to Norman Finkelstein)

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