Vegans for Palestine Podcast - Episode 01 - Al Nakba (The Catastrophe)

Every Palestinian that you meet will have a Nakba story that they have inherited from their families.

But - what is the Nakba? Why should vegans learn about the Nakba? In our first episode, Dalal and Rayan discuss the ongoing impact of the 1948 Nakba.

This podcast is captioned here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnr-siOe3w&t=2099s

Transcript

[Music] [Applause] Dalal: Vegans for Palestine is a podcast that is the first of its kind it's a podcast by vegan Palestinians about all things both vegan and Palestinian. Rayan: the vegans for Palestine podcast is dedicated to empowering Palestinian veganism and raises the voices of vegans across the Arab world. Dalal: the vegans for pal podcast emerged from a movement of the same name the movement is an intersectional anticolonial Global vegan movement dedicated to the liberation of human and non-human animals across historical Palestine. Rayan: since the genocide in the Gaza Strip began in October last year vegans around the world dedicated to Palestinian Liberation have reached out and joined vegans for Palestine. The apartheid state of Israel has referred to us Palestinians as quote nonhuman animals and they've done this to rationalize their genocidal aims of exterminating and annihilating us. Dalal: as Palestinian vegans we identify the connections between this language of dehumanization that has a carnivore logic, we see this carnivore logic play out in factory farms these same factory farms that produce dead animal carcasses for human consumption. Rayan: Zionism itself is inherently racist, as it characterizes Palestinians in ways that dehumanize us and this affirms that Zionism is also a racist Colonial settler project. We also acknowledge that a portion of the Palestinian diaspora is located in settler Colonial societies around the globe, and we'd like to point out that the Palestinian cause has solidarity with indigenous populations around the world. Dalal: we hope that this podcast not only empowers Palestinian vegan voices but also educates vegans worldwide about intersectional veganism and the Palestinian struggle. Rayan: and on that note I'd like to introduce my lovely co-host Dalal Radwan. Dalal is a digital media Creator educator and she hails from Palestine and she pursues a vegan on a budget philosophy where she explores veganism and its intersectionality in her life and the lives of those around her. Meanwhile, Dalal also maintains a low waste lifestyle to the best that she can. Dalal also hosts her first Arabic language vegan podcast which is called "What the Batteikh" which translates to "what the watermelon" and on this podcast, Dalal talks to arabic speaking vegans about their vegan stories and explores the intersectionality of veganism within their lives as well as for advocating for Palestine, because what  the Batteikh!

Dalal:so my lovely co-host Rayan Al-Natour, he is located in Wiradjuri country which is the Aboriginal original name of the land that he resides in Australia he has worked in Aboriginal &Torres Strait Islander education across many institutions and is an expert in anti-racist social justice perspectives and decolonizing education curriculum. Rayan can communicate Auslan (Australian sign language) and is regularly in contact with Deaf people all over Palestine. Rayan: I'm really looking forward to today hey so some people in our audience might be wondering why do we need to talk about the history of Palestine on a podcast about veganism? and we'll get to that shortly, on our first podcast episode though we're exploring the Nakba specifically and we'd like to emphasize that this Nakba is ongoing and the genocide in Gaza is just one of many manifestations of the Nakba as we outlined previously Palestinian veganism is intersectional and anticolonial and this means that our veganism is not only about animal Liberation but it is embedded into our identity as Palestinians.

Dalal: every Palestinian vegan you meet will have a Nakba story that we have inherited from our families ,
there will be lots of non-palestinian and non Arab vegans listening to this podcast which is great and to you listeners we see that if you want to learn about Palestinian veganism it means you will need to learn about our Palestinian history. We will first listen to Dr Ghada Karmi's recollection as an eyewitness to the Nakba of 1948.

Dr Ghada Karmi: For me the Nakba of 1948 has meant 75 years of dislocation in place in culture in ways of life. We as a family had to flee our home in Jerusalem in April 1948, because of fear, the fear we had of Jewish militias roaming our streets shooting at random. We had no choice, but of course when we left we thought it would not be permanent, we thought we would be back . 
How wrong we were 75 years later here I am living in London which is where we arrived after 1948 , 
living in London and having endured a lifetime of having my sufferings, my tragedy denied by the society around me that was almost as painful as leaving my homeland. No one seemed to understand that we Palestinians had been made to pay the price for Jewish suffering at the hands of Europeans. We were an innocent people and yet we were made to atone for a crime we did not commit. Today, I, like every other Palestinian am determined that we must return to our homeland.

Rayan: Oooft, that was deep! But accurate what are your thoughts Dalal?

Dalal: I think it uh it sums it all up we don't need to do this podcast we can just go back to our businesses um no it's really hard um honestly it's really hard just uh listening to these uh testimonials of Palestinians uh who were displaced um of their homes back in 1948 and now they're still living proof that Palestinians existed,
and they had um they had their own memories in Palestine that they pilt with their families and now they they can't really access that they can't go back to their homes, they can't go back to their Villages or towns and we're living today to listen to these stories, & keep this conversation going about the Nakba.

Rayan:absolutely and what Dr Karmi said that really hit home for me as someone who is currently outside of Palestine
is that we will return, and it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when, but the trauma of the Nakba was really captured in Dr Karmi's tone, in the way she summarized her story, and I liked how she said that a lot of her family were expecting to go home, it was supposed to be temporary.
That's a common narrative among us Palestinians. 
When you talk to Nakba survivors, they will say that they were under the assumption that they were going to leave their home temporarily, and I suppose my question for you is, every one of us Palestinians we've got a Nakba story and I want to hear from you in terms of when did you first learn about the Nakba? do you remember how old you were? do you remember who told you about the  Nakba?

Dalal: that's a really good question! uh I think I don't really have the Nakba story like majority of Palestinians but I remember ever since we were little kids we were really uh Opening Our Eyes to the Nakba and the stories that we grew up listening to and hearing from our teachers in schools, and in kindergarten, you know all the way growing up. I think it's it's always been there that there is all these massacres happening to Palestinians in villages like Deir Yassin. Watching documentaries - even as little kids um which was really hard at the time like you know watching documentaries of massacres and of the Nakba, and the war on Palestine, and just seeing how people were actually forced to leave the country, they don't they didn't really have an option to stay because no one was safe and the militias were killing people to scare the other ones in nearby um nearing in neighboring villages to force people to leave. Now actually, looking back for a child to go through all of that, it was never something that I can ever forget in my life. People talked about it because, Grandparents um talked about their memories. I know that my grandparents had their their own memories of the Naksa which is another annual day of commemoration of the Palestinians displacement in 1967. It's growing up around people who really had their stories about how they were forced to leave their Villages and luckily um my grandparents came back. They reached the Jordanian borders and then they decided that they didn't want to leave and they want to stay at any expense and they came back to the Village everything was robbed nothing was there because you know occupation Israeli occupation had um um taken um over the place when people were kicked out and or they feared for their lives and they had to leave I know my mom was a little girl at the time for instance and her parents um she she has her own memories as well as a kid who had to leave her house and go out of that Village and then she came back and she has um that memory of of that experience till today with her it's sad to say that I am currently living the the continuing neba the continuing and suffering and displacement um even now in 2024 and this is something that Palestinians are still living through um I don't know it was really hard but tell me um I mean the neba do you have a neba story yourself do you have um do you remember also how you learned about the Nakba? 

Rayan:I do. probably one of the first times that I'd seen uh my father and my uncles uh extremely sad uh and I was three at the time and I just remember that the story was that the reason why we were not currently in Palestine is because the Europeans were trying to murder us and so my family fled and even though my family is actually from Ramallah which as you and everyone else knows is in what we now call the West Bank on my father's side I have an unusual Nakba story in the fact that my father's side of the family even though we are from Ramallah they actually fled from Al'-Quids (Jerusalem) back to Ramallah, because of what was happening in Deir Yassin. By the time they got to ramala the population rala were panicking because they were seeing all these people come from Lyd  with all sorts of  horror stories that the Zionist soldiers massacred people ,
did unspeakable things to women ,murdered children in front of their parents, murdered parents in front of their children. What I remember being told is that yes they did something horrible to us they came to murder us they came to annihilate us and they were as a result forced to Fleet what we heard Dr Karmi say before about us having to pay for the crimes of Europe against the European Jews really resonates with me because I started to think, well what on Earth did we do why did it why did the world watch this happen to us and do nothing like why was this allowed to happen to us who was in control of Palestine and so I learned from both my my father's side and my mother's side so both my parents are actually from the same Village and I learned from my grandfather on my mother's side about how he witnessed the Ottoman Empire then the British and how the British just helped the Europeans come take Palestine from us, and it wasn't just take it was just it was this violent sort of ethnic cleansing process whereby people were forced to leave their possessions their belongings and some actually thought that they were leaving temporarily and coming back and it is and and now I'm lost in my thoughts like now I think this is the this is the Unspeakable part Oh what now we're speaking about it it's this  NAKBA trauma that we carry with us, yes and those of you that are listening to this podcast now that are vegansm that are thinking well where's the vegan part ... we're going to remind you all again if you want to get to know us as Palestinian vegans you have to get to know our Palestinian story and especially if You' have just discovered that we exist as a result of the current genocide in Gaza, a lot of people within my family, yes, we're horrified but a lot of us aren't surprised because we've experienced this dehumanization before. The difference is is that now we're probably witnessing a Nakba live on social media. I think as Palestinians we are blessed because we have so many Role Models, Palestinian historians, Idols icons that we'll probably go through in this podcast and future podcasts.  for example Historian Rashid Khaldi talks about the British and the Nakba

[Music] Khaldi: the nakba was made possible by the British in that sense you're right by crushing Palestinian resistance in the late 30s and into the early 40s by uh uh killing wounding imprisoning or exiling 10% of the adult male population by confiscating thousands of Arms by killing leaders executing them in the field uh uh hanging them uh uh or exiling them my uncle sent off to the seashells Jam Hussein sent to Kenya and so on and so forth the British crushed the Palestinian national movement at the same time they were arming the militias of the Zionist movement the pmak is created by a British officer a man named ORD Wingate it's trained to cut people's throats blow up houses over their heads and so on they're called night squads uh or Windgate was considered insane by his colleagues they thought he was a maniac a murderous Maniac uh General Montgomery for field Marshall Montgomery thought he was insane he he died during World War II uh uh uh Windgate uh they were arming and training and organizing these militias to help them fight as auxiliaries to help them fight the Palestinians in the 1930s and so what happens there after at a point when Britain begins to deviate from its support from the Zionist movement is that the Zionist movement now has the wherewithal to conquer Palestine. The Palestinians have been crushed and they have the military wherewithal and they move to Moscow and Washington for support uh having given up on Britain. uh the actual work of the nakba is carried out of course by Israeli militia, Zionist militias before May 15th 1948 when the state is established and by the Israeli military after the state was established, but the militias become the Army,  the the organizations that were set up by with help of the British uh govern governmental organizations in the 20s and 30s become the government of the state of [Music] Israel.

Dalal: Most importantly one of the key historical events uh that contributed to why people talk about Palestine and the Palestine code and uh what other people frame or refer to as "the Arab Israeli struggle", "the conflict", "this and that" um but in short, it's um the British mandate, you know, we're talking about the years from 1917 through 1948 when basically um the League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate over Palestine. After World War I, that mandate actually came with the BALFOUR Declaration uh of 1917 which in short really supported the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine , 
um and also uh it didn't really state anything regarding Palestinians, so that period also saw significant immigration of Jews flee and persecution in Europe and I think that's also what Dr Karmi was referring to before. We saw more the rise of Zionism um particularly in the early 20th century, as well even before the British mandate, I think, we can't really for you know we can't really ignore that there has been a long running ottoman rule as well um between 1517 and 1917, so about 400 years also of Ottoman rule.

Ryan: yeah we've always been  we've always been an occupied people.

Dalal:we've always been and I think relatively you can we there were probably some short periods of time where there were probably no no 'killing' or 'no executions' or no I don't know how to call it!  I really just I wouldn't call it peace um but neither Liberation but I think people somehow were finding quiet um time during these um unsettling events.

Rayan: By the time the British got to us and gave our land, like you know, enabled colonisers to sort of colonize Palestine,  it's like, these are people - European in general they were very well - most with the exception of the Irish, that's my understanding uh and few others, but Europeans were experts in terms of colonial projects. They colonized lneighboring Islands they colonized North and South America, what we now call Australia, Hawaii Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia, parts of Africa, so by the time they got to 1948 they knew exactly what they were doing, like it's this level of racism that I think we need to unpack and I'm going to say this again and again especially on this podcast it's going to annoy our audiences - that's okay; if your veganism is not intersectional it's just white supremacy. 
Your veganism needs to be intertwined with anti colonialism, otherwise it's just pointless it's just performative,  it's it's it's just performative activism it's just white veganism.

DALAL: I can add that I I agree with you about the point of veganism because for vegans committed to the principles of compassion and Justice and ethical living and all of these values, I think, understanding the NAKBA is important um for recognizing the interconnectedness of different forms of Oppression, and maintaining ethical consistency um as well as supporting broader movements of social justice and um, really just that part of you as a vegan being educated on Palestine, on the NAKBA (1948), on the NAKSA (1967)  on all the um historical events happening that really contributed to the suffering and continuous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, vegans can really become more informed advocates for both animals and human rightS. I explored uh one episode in in in my podcast one of the things is that you can't just advocate for animal rights without advocating for human rights because, how does that make you a vegan you know it's not just it's it's what you said it's white supremacy, it's that idea that oh just being vegan is this and that but it's really intersectional, it's really inclusive, it's really um an ethical value system that you align yourself with when you become Vegan. And not just with Palestine but really with all human, um with all human suffering all human, causes all human issues um being an advocate for for that also just makes sense. 
Rayan: yeah what is the point in sort of this performative activism of you know animal Liberation if it means that you're watching human suffering you know I mean and we can have a whole podcast on the devastation that both animals and humans have faced across Gaza. Zionism and veganism they're both incompatible with one another because Zionism is a racist Colonial ideology. [Music]

[Music] [Music] [Israeli Director of the film "Al-Tantura" speaking): most Israelis don't know their own history most Israelis don't know what really happened in 1948, most Israelis believe the naive story that the Palestinians "ran away" in 1948 by themselves because they were told by the leaders to do so and uh they don't know they don't understand that the Israeli Army went into Village after Village and drove the people out,  sometimes committing war crimes like the massacre Al-Tantura (village) and others.

Dalal:I think one example of the Nakba is what has been documented  in a documentary called Tantura, and it's the story basically of the Palestinian Village Tantura that was ethnically cleansed in 1948 and what really brought up controversy around that film specifically um that that very um documentary is how um an Israeli researcher in 1998 was working on his master's thesis at haa University uh Teddy Katz, really brought light and depth into the tantura history and it was sad that he was persecuted later on, obviously for basically exposing that genocide that happened in Tantura. This film really unleashed the storm in Israel at the time uh that research uh that he worked on um that really brought him a lot of issues simply because he researched one side of history that Israel continuously just avoids and pretends that it never happened it never existed and that is also another story that they tell uh the immigrants they used to tell the immigrants at the time and also that all the generation of um Jewish immigrants how you know they came to a land with no people because what else would you tell people when they come from another country and uh you try to encourage them  to settle in someone else's land,

 (In an interview, Palestinian speaking):my family was displaced from a village called tantura. Tantura was a beautiful Village, uh on the Mediterranean Sea just south of Haifa. the family went to sleep like normal in the middle of the night they started hearing gunfire by early morning the whole village was attacked the evening that the village was attacked up until the early morning,  a massacre had occurred they killed uh several hundred people including many of my distant relatives my uncle Adnan was actually at the mass grave, at gunpoint forced to collect the bodies and throw them into the mass grave. In fact one of the bodies he was collecting was his friend's father his friend his friend's father was actually still alive but he was wounded,  he had no choice but to throw the body into the grave because he told his friend if we don't if we don't do this we're going to end up in the grave with him and we may end up in the grave with him. Anyways the majority of the villagers came into my my family's home seeking Refuge. My grandfather was one of the Elders of the village in fact he owned most of the village my cousin was the mkar which is the mayor of The Village at the time when the villagers came to the house they were seeking like shelter they were seeking help they thought that my grandfather could help them he thought that he could they they thought he could protect them uh unfortunately my grandfather didn't have the power to do that all the men and the women and the children were taken to the beach they were separated my grandmother and my aunt and my youngest Uncle who was 3 years old at the time were forced to to walk to the neighborhood Village of Farees and then eventually they were sent to refugee camps in Syria. 

Dalal: I was reading online one  of those articles that was documenting like a short collection of the things that happened in Palestine especially you know like the NAKBA statistics, what actually happened but uh my eyes caught this quote by one of the Palestinian refugees he said something about um in quotation "without a Homeland something will always be missing, we'll never have dignity",  and I I don't really have any other words to basically stop there and just leave it with people to think about as we advocate for for animal rights and for human rights it's always to remember that we're really advocating for dignity, really, it's just giving people back what they lost because of all these wars because of all these years long suffering and occupation because none of that makes any sense. Rayan: when the zionists came to Palestine and it was well before 1948 that they were trying to convince other European jews to join in their colonial project, you know, the level of dehumanization that must have led to that decision, to come to our land and say either it was 'empty' or that there were people there but they needed to be annihilated ---- two very very contradictory statements, but there's also this trauma that I think you and I, and every other Palestinian carries with us and our I suppose to the disappointment of the Zionist movement is that we haven't forgotten.

Dalal: neither would anyone of us would actually forget uh any of the atrocities our grandparents and their their parents and their families endured throughout the the years uh 76 years on, and we're still living that.And today, it's, as you said earlier,  on it's documented it's on social media, live, um and it's it's important to remember that we're seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg when you look back at the years particularly between 1947 and 1949 there is at least 750,000 Palestinians um from E 1.9 million population who were made refugees beyond the borders of of Palestine, and the Zionist forces at the time had taken over more than 78% of historic Palestine and ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 530 Villages and cities and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities and massacres including more than 70 massacres and from May 15th in 1948 um, we still commemorate the nakba with which means catastrophe, which also means um the mass displacement and the dispossession of Palestinians, during the 1948 massacres and and war that happened on Palestinians, and before that as as we we recall, Palestine was really occupied throughout the years but people forget that it was really multiethnic and Multicultural diverse with people from different backgrounds with different religions people forget that Jews live together with Muslims and Christians and maybe non-religious people in Palestine throughout the years um and they just take that part of you know focusing on one incident in history apart from  all the other connected incidents.

 
Rayan: you're right though,  let's just talk about that component, because Palestinians we are not a monolith in terms of Who We Are culturally, linguistically, ancestrally, you know religiously, as well. Palestine is not only the home to abrahamic faiths which had Jewish Christian and Muslim communities but also communities from Europe from Asia from Africa as well. There's a huge Armenian Palestinian Community across historical Palestine that are just as Palestinians you and I that have you know cultural ties to PaLESTINE.  Same with you know the various afro Palestinian communities that are all over PALESTINE that also experience the NAKBA,  that have also being persecuted by the Israeli state, that are currently experiencing and surviving the genocide across the Gaza Strip. l 
we get it that, the people trying to colonize us try and create this narrative about us they try and stop us from telling our own stories Yan even a film about the  Nakba that appeared on received such a backlash simply because we were telling our stories that was our only crime our only crime was to tell our stories to say when the zionists came to Palestine when they took over they murdered raped and pillaged because that's exactly what they did. Even Zionist historians have actually said this there's one shock horror historian by the name of Benny Morris who actually said that yes um there was a Nakba that occurred, but he takes the position whereby he actually wishes that in 1948 they managed to eliminate all of us across Palesine that's his only problem. So what you said before made me also think about what life is like living in a settler colonial society in a different part of the world in what we now call Australia. 
DALAL: tell me tell me more about that oh look what we now call AOTEAROA New Zealand, Hawai, Turtle Island, all these different settler Colonial societies, they tend to have a National day, where they celebrate their birth uh and in this one here they call it Australia day and it is when the British basically came to what we now call Sydney cve or what is actually the lands of the Aur people and so from that day they all of a sudden in the 80s they decided to celebrate the national day whereas well before this national day was formed here the First Nations peoples here commemorated that day as a national day of mourning for them and when you look at these settler colonial projects if you see one side that's celebrating a so-called national day of independence and the indigenous population is celebrating a national day of mour you've really got to question why anyone would support those celebrating a so-called national day of independence yeah if someone's celebration is someone else's day of morning what you have what you're witnessing is a settler colonial society which she's not very vegan at all settler colonialism genocide I can't believe I'm saying this but I've had to say this in some vegan circles especially here you know in a western Society where I'm based at the moment -  settler colonialism is not vegan, and it's it's so bizarre that we're even having this conversation now in vegan circles where we're having to educate non-palestinian vegans or non-arab vegans that hey, um genocide isn't actually vegan! you know, describing humans as being animals and then describing the need to slaughter them surely that goes against vegan values. Again, if your veganism is not intersectional what's the point. It's like being a vegan who eats meat you know someone who only eats dead fish carcasses as opposed to dead chicken carcasses, just to sort of make yourself feel good about your existence or a sort of you know, it's it's very very performative, it's pointless. 

Dalal: yeah it's mostly like being on  a plant-based diet where you're probably doing it for health reasons or for um you know losing weight gaining muscles whatever that would be and then not necessarily understanding the full perspective of that philosophy on its own of of being a vegan um, I think maybe we can actually leave this for the audience to probably think about and share their perspectives of why they are vegan, and maybe how they see Palestine and the Nakba from a vegan lens, um I think I would love to to hear from the audience on that, and also back to our very first question: When did you learn about the Nakba as a non Palestinian, a non Arab?  would you like to share with us anything of what you learned about growing up? you know about that experience  ?

about that story? about that narrative?? uh we would love to hear that story from you um so yeah?

Rayan: The following poem is called أَنَا مِنْ هُنَاكَ or 'I belong there' by the classic Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. This poem is read by Palestinian activist and poet and author Remy Kenazi.

Kenazi: I am from there and I have memories. Like any other
 
Man I was born. I have a mother,
 
A house with several windows, friends and brothers.
 
I have a prison cell’s cold window, a wave

Of birds, and an olive tree that cannot die.
 
I walked and crossed the land before the crossing

Of swords made a banquet-table of a body.
 
I come from there, and I return the sky

To its mother when it cries for her, and cry
 
For a cloud on its return

To recognize me. I have learned
 
All words befitting of blood’s court to break

The rule; I have learned all the words to take
 
The lexicon apart for one noun’s sake,
 
The compound I must make:
 
Home.

Dalal: I think it's it's one thing to read history and talk about history, and it's a completely different experience living that History, Day in day out, living it as a reality every day and 76 years on and later, we are still living in the Nakba. It's not necessarily today is not May 15th but we don't have to commemorate Nakba on May 15th every year to remind the world that: Palestine is still occupied, and people are still being displaced, dispossessed, ethnically cleansed from their own homes. We have to talk about it every day and remind people and show them what's really happening so hopefully that can put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people. 

Rayan: we want all  listeners to know that there are vegans across the Gaza Strip right now that are being starved that are being bombed that are being persecuted, some have unfortunately been incarcerated, some have been begging for scraps, some have set up gofundmes. Please follow 'vegans for Palestine' get in touch with how you can support us, how you can support vegans across the Gaza Strip. Learn about Palestinian vegan initiatives, learn about the different animal rights organizations and Animal Welfare Services across the Gaza Strip, across 48 Palestine, and across what we now call the West Bank. Please purchase Macklemore's song 'Hind's Hall'. All proceeds of that song go straight to UNWRA and as we all know UNWRA at the moment is being starved by Western powers, and when UNWRA is starved it means that the people of Gazs continue to starve, so please support us please see our Humanity during a climate whereby the state of Israel is constantly comparing us to animals equating us with animals to justify our Slaughter. What we ask is that you counter that by seeing us as humans. Macklemore (Lyrics - Hind's Hall):
Yeah
The people, they won't leave
What is threatenin' about divesting and wantin' peace?
The problem isn't the protests, it's what they're protesting
It goes against what our country is funding

(Hey) Block the barricade until Palestine is free
(Hey) Block the barricade until Palestine is free

When I was seven, I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy-E
What was it again? Oh yeah, fuck the police (woo)

Actors in badges protecting property
And a system that was designed by white supremacy (brrt)
But the people are in the streets

You can pay off Meta, you can't pay off me
Politicians who serve by any means
AIPAC, CUFI, and all the companies
You see, we sell fear around the land of the free

But this generation here is about to cut the strings
You can ban TikTok, take us out the algorithm
But it's too late, we've seen the truth, we bear witness
Seen the rubble, the buildings, the mothers and the children

And all the men that you murdered, and then we see how you spin it
Who gets the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance
Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment, but
White supremacy is finally on blast
Screamin', "Free Palestine" 'til they're home at last (woo)

We see the lies in 'em
Claimin' it's antisemitic to be anti-Zionist
I've seen Jewish brothers and sisters out there and ridin' in
Solidarity and screamin', "Free Palestine" with them

Organizin', unlearnin' and finally cuttin' ties with
A state that's gotta rely on an apartheid system
To uphold an occupyin' violent
History been repeating for the last seventy-five
The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied (woo)
If students in tents posted on the lawn

Occupyin' the quad is really against the law
And a reason to call in the police and their squad
Where does genocide land in your definition, huh? (Hey, hey)
Destroyin' every college in Gaza and every mosque
Pushin' everyone into Rafah and droppin' bombs

Occupyin' the quad is really against the law
And a reason to call in the police and their squad
Where does genocide land in your definition, huh? (Hey, hey)
Destroyin' every college in Gaza and every mosque
Pushin' everyone into Rafah and droppin' bombs

Occupyin' the quad is really against the law
And a reason to call in the police and their squad
Where does genocide land in your definition, huh? (Hey, hey)
Destroyin' every college in Gaza and every mosque
Pushin' everyone into Rafah and droppin' bombs

What happened to the artist? What d'you got to say?
If I was on a label, you could drop me today
I'd be fine with it 'cause the heart fed my page

What happened to the artist? What d'you got to say?
If I was on a label, you could drop me today
I'd be fine with it 'cause the heart fed my page

If the West was pretendin' that you didn't exist
You'd want the world to stand up and the students finally did, let's get it (woo)
Brrt
Woo