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Above is a "docu-music-video" of Detroit MC Invincible’s song People Not Places. Kabobfest calls it the "greatest hip hop song for Palestine ever."The video, like the song, is a powerful indictment of both the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people, and attempts to shield young American Jews from this reality through programs like Birthright.

Be sure to watch the entire thing. The video continues after the song is over to show how there are some very similar conditions to Israel/Palestine right here in the US, and that as hopeless as the situation might feel at times there is an amazing capacity for change.

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02 HATTLER assalamu alaikum - original photo by Jennifer Hayes
(original photo courtesy of Jennifer Hayes)

I love the poster above. It reminds me of Woody Guthrie's "this machine kills fascists" guitar. I saw it at the beginning of a great music video by the German bass guitarist Hellmut Hattler (the poster is also stuck on the Wall itself). The video is for Hattler's song "Assalamu Alaikum" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here it is:

The video has been nominated by PoliticsOnline and the World eDemocracy Forum for the 2009 "Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics." It's going up against Twitter, Whitehouse.gov and Google – vote for it here!

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The Emperor’s Clothes

by Philip Weiss20 January 2009

Chuck D, from the hip hop group Public Enemy, once called rap music “the CNN of black America.” Looks like its getting the word out for anti-Zionist Jews as well: This song, “The Emperor’s Clothes,” from Detroit rapper Invincible was…

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