Doc Jazz in magazine on protest music
This issue of the magazine Global Bits, which appears three times a year in New Zealand, titled ‘Get Up Stand Up - Music For Change’ is an excellent overview about protest music throughout history and in all parts of the world. This special was produced in cooperation with Save the Children, in support of the United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. If you are into music, and want to know more about Music For Change, this issue is really worth while to read. Click here to view the magazine. The issue lists Doc Jazz among many significant songwriters in the world! Here’s a quote: ‘Labeling the Musical Intifadah movement Music for Human Rights, Palestinian artist and general surgeon Doc Jazz’s website states that it opposes all types of racism, including anti-semitism, zionism, and other ideologies that uphold beliefs in either the superiority or inferiority of other races. With his songs, Doc Jazz aims to prevent a viewpoint that differs from the usual perspective that people living in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world, are presented with through their regular news sources. “Palestinians who paid for its [Israel’s] creation with the total annihilation of their sovereignty are still alive today. Most of them live in refugee camps in the countries surrounding their homeland.”‘
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