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

Palestine

When the towers crumble in Gaza, they are drawn to the Earth by the same force of gravity as that which brought down the towers in New York, after the planes came.

Watch The Buildings Crumble

Rising of the Ghetto Fighters

Examining the connections between 9/11 and the events of the past weekend in Palestine/Israel is like peeling an onion with infinite layers.

Israel's 9/11:  Counting the Ways

As we stand by, the Israeli military is obeying its commands to annihilate the Gaza Strip.

As The Bombs Rain Down

The thing about the saying, "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger," is it's often not true.

Genocidal Ironies

A backgrounder on Palestine, annotated with relevant songs.

Palestine Teach-In

The western media helps maintain necessary levels of ignorance in the domains they control, while the rest of the world decries another ongoing genocide, brought to us by settler-colonialism and empire.

Alternative Realities and Cycles of Genocide

And then they start shouting at one another afterwards.

Portland Jews Say No to Genocide

I wish I knew.  But I have a few thoughts on the scope of the occasion we desperately need to rise to.

How Do We Stop This Genocide?

For genocide to be committed, the perpetrators need political cover along with lots of weapons and money, and the rhetorical groundwork needs to be laid.

The Geopolitics of Genocide and the Social Engineering of Complicity

Stop the Genocide

Here's the audio version of last night's Concert for Palestine that we livestreamed in front of a small IRL audience.

Concert For Palestine

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

What do they mean in Germany when they say "never again," and how does that relate to what is currently happening in Gaza?

The German Question

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)

We pause this genocide for a few words from our sponsor.

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

Occupation

Where are your borders?

This is a track from my album, Meanwhile In Afghanistan, which can be streamed or downloaded at davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Israeli Geography 101

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