Songs documenting the genocide of the Palestinian people, written since the autumn of 2023 to the present.  At the top are songs written with my AI band, Ai Tsuno.  All the rest involve human collaborators such as Chet Gardiner, Kamala Emanuel, Lorna McKinnon, Laura Love, Gregg Weiss, and others.

Notes From A Holocaust

Audio essays, songs, and interviews related to Palestine.  More at davidrovics.com/palestine.

Palestine

All the tracks in this playlist are a collaboration between David Rovics, who is the lyricist, prompt engineer, and producer, and his AI band, Ai Tsuno.  You can find Ai Tsuno on all the usual music streaming platforms, and you can read more about the project at davidrovics.com/ai-tsuno.

Best of Ai Tsuno

These songs are all collaborations between David Rovics, who is the lyricist, prompt engineer, and producer, and his AI band, Ai Tsuno.  You can find Ai Tsuno on all the usual music streaming platforms, and you can read more about the project at davidrovics.com/ai-tsuno.

Ai Tsuno for Palestine

Palestine Solidarity with David Rovics & Ai Tsuno

A song about current events or one related to this date in history, with a little bit of context.  Available on all the usual podcasting platforms if you look for This Week with David Rovics.

Song For Today

A bunch of my favorite musicians in the world live in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was my home for many formative years, including most of those that I spent making a living as a busker in the subways, which is when I first met and befriended Eric Royer and Sean Staples. Anything I recorded with other musicians from around 1997-2008 involved them. I moved to Oregon and found great musicians out there, and in Ireland and Scotland, to record with. But on an extended family visit to Boston in July 2021 we got the band back together, so to speak, and the result is this album, which I'm just wildly enthusiastic about, and I hope you are, too.

I wrote all the songs. The nitty gritty of the process with the album, in case you want to know, is we recorded everything in MIddlesborough, Massachusetts with the brilliant Dave Westner engineering. (Dave was also the engineer on my recording, Make It So, circa 1994.) Sean Staples played mandolin and guitar with me "live" in the studio, and later laid down those gorgeous organ tracks. Eric Royer played banjo with me live, and later laid down those delicious pedal steel parts. The bass was held down most capably by the brilliant Hazel Royer, who has not fallen far from the tree -- not surprisingly, the Hazel I remember as a baby is now a student at the Berklee College of Music and an accomplished recording artist, much like her father and her namesake, Hazel Dickens, in whose memory I would like to dedicate this album.

May Day

Watch The Buildings Crumble

In the mirror world, this slogan is controversial, and is a veiled threat of genocide against the Jewish people.  In the real world, the ethnonationalist Jewish-supremacist state of Israel has been committing a genocide against the Palestinian people for the past 75 years, and this slogan is a slogan of liberation for all the people who live between the river and the sea.  As with similar slogans in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, for dominant political tendencies in Palestinian civil society it's about equality between all peoples, not genocide.  Genocide, rather, is what Israel is doing.  As the Israeli authorities openly and publicly say, this is "Nakba 2.0."  We should believe them, they're serious.

From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea

When there were still hospitals functioning in the Gaza Strip, before they were intentionally destroyed in an ongoing, genocidal bombing campaign, the surviving doctors wrote on the bodies of the surviving children, over and over again, the acronym, WCNSF -- Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.

Wounded Child -- No Surviving Family (WCNSF)

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Humanitarian Pause

Once the last Palestinian is killed, then the pundits and politicians will say "how could we have known," and they'll open another museum.

Once the Last Palestinian's Killed

Outside of the west they're reporting the WHO and just about every other UN department are holding constant press conferences, trying to sound the alarm about an imminent genocide, and all the people in Gaza who are about to die of famine and disease.

Famine and Disease

Entering the third month of Israel's total embargo on Gaza, the starvation has begun.

This is What Genocide Looks Like

This track is a collaboration between David Rovics, who is the lyricist, prompt engineer, and producer, and his AI band, Ai Tsuno.  You can find Ai Tsuno on all the usual music streaming platforms, and you can read more about the project at davidrovics.com/ai-tsuno.

From the River

Ban Israel Too

Camping in the Graveyards

Gaza Riviera

We Say Cease, They Say Fire

The Rent is Too Damn High

Little Orange Toys

When YouTube Music deleted all of my albums from their platform the other day because my very existence apparently violates their terms of service, Ai Tsuno wrote a fairly blistering song about 1984/2025.

They Deleted David Rovics

As fake ceasefire takes so much of the western world's attention away from Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, in the Occupied West Bank, the daily pogroms carried out by Israeli settlers and soldiers also continue.

Pogroms of the Occupied West Bank

Just a Vigil to Bear Witness

From the album, Make the Planet Earth Great Again

The Apocalypse Will Be Televised

Members of Palestine Action are being held without bail or trial in England for trying to stop a British-sponsored genocide.  Many are on hunger strike, and the doctors say they are dying, as their organs are beginning to fail due to some of them now going on 6 weeks without eating.  Meanwhile in Australia, they are talking about passing a law to say that the phrase, "globalize the intifada" is hate speech.  Resisting genocide is apparently a very hateful thing to do.  Terroristic, even.

Globalize the Intifada

On April 18th, 2012, Khader Adnan was released from an Israeli prison after being on hunger strike for 66 days. He was objecting, among other things, to Israel’s policy of indefinite detention without trial, which still continues — but only for Palestinians.

Khader Adnan

On April 19th, 1943, what might be accurately described as the greatest urban rebellion in the history of civilization began.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing eleven workers and causing the worst environmental disaster in US history.

Deepwater Horizon

On April 22nd, 1991, a young Palestinian named Saed Bannoura was shot 6 times by IDF soldiers — but he refused to die.

The First Intifada

On April 23rd, 1971, veterans of the war in Vietnam carried out a series of operations in Washington, DC, actions involving thousands of recently-returned soldiers, one of which involved the depositing on the White House lawn of 700 medals veterans had received for their service in the military.

Throwing of Medals

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.  I also write songs as part of Ai Tsuno, which you can look up on all the streaming platforms.