Tagged: justice

New album INTIFADA has been released!

Today, the Musical Intifada is happy to announce the release of the new Doc Jazz CD ‘INTIFADA’. It will become available on Amazon soon! As you can see, Doc Jazz’s musical activism is going through a period of increased intensity. This new album release comes only a week ahead of Doc Jazz’s first ever cross-Atlantic performance, namely at PCRF’s Healing...

3 years today since the murder of Marwa El Sherbiny

3 years today since the murder of Marwa El Sherbiny

Some events are just too tragic, too grim, too significant to forget. Can you imagine someone being murdered – not by bullets, but by 15 knife wounds – in the middle of a courtroom, right in front of the judge and all the other legal assistants? What if I told you that the murderer was actually on trial, and the...

Tweeting for Khader: major kudos and a point of criticism

The past week has been an amazing week for Twitter activism for the Palestinian cause. In fact, the achievements could be described as historic. For 6 days in a row, hashtags related to Khader Adnan’s hunger strike managed to make it to the world trending list 7 times in total. The success of these online demonstrations must be attributed mostly...

Dried Fruit – a short story from the East

Dried Fruit – a short story from the East

By Doc Jazz A wise man one day was spending his day teaching his students, between morning and afternoon prayer. The topics that were discussed were deep and complex, and he gave his students plenty of opportunity for questions; he invited them to question everything they were told, and to ponder on their own thoughts and emotions about the meanings...