NO MORE DEATHS///THAWABET - a 19 band benefit compilation for Palestine

For months, years and decades we have seen the continued destruction of Palestine and its people. The atrocities and war crimes we are seeing the Israeli state commit everyday are unfathomable; indiscriminate bombing and shooting, thousands of children and innocent civilians dead, hospitals and infrastructure destroyed, a blocking of medical aid and food supplies, an internet blackout, and now those who remain are being attacked at the very place they have been told to take refuge. We are witnessing a Genocide.

"This didn’t start on October 7th, or when they mowed the lawn in ’08, it didn’t start in 1967, it didn’t even start in ’48… A century deep into the Nakba, and nothing has changed. The Israeli state apparatus continues to murder, rape, torture and disposess Palestinians for having the audacity to exist in the way of their imagined utopia. Thousands of children abducted and imprisoned without meaningful charge in “peacetime”, families chased off their land at gunpoint in the West Bank, obliterated wholesale in Gaza, separated by walls and zoning laws in ’48 Palestine. Six months and a new calendar year deep into this new phase of unprecedented bloodshed, the foundational delusions of Western civilisation are laid bare. As genocide is livestreamed into our homes, we see the moral bankruptcy of the Zionist apparatus in real-time, as all pretence to its ‘civilised’ nature is unmasked as the same totalitarian savagery it inherited from its imperial benefactors. The lifesblood of all racist oppression, all rapacious colonial extraction, all state weaponisation of sexual violence, and the complicity of the capitalist superstructure within this, is articulated in crystalline detail as the population of Gaza is driven screaming into the desert while the Israelis salt the earth… and build McDonalds on top of it. The teeming billions of the global South and their attendant diasporas in the heart of the machine are watching, and they are not stupid. The mask is never going back on - now is a decisive moment in history. Those who would seek to paper over the cracks in their crumbling empire, to patronise us with false promises of unjust ‘peace’ & hamstrung ’tolerance’ are blind to the material reality; to the fact that the choice, for Palestinians and indeed for all of us, is Nakba or Intifada - slow death or hard-fought struggle. This choice is and remains ours, every one of us. Beyond the deconsecrated shores of the Holy Land, an order that has drowned the world in blood for 500 years now chokes in its death throes on the torrent that it has wrought. The old world is dying - what new world shall we strive to create from its ashes?" - Omar Raja, Anglerfish

This compilation will be raising money to provide esims to those in Gaza, this will allow people to connect with families, communities and to show the world what is happening there. See below for more info; gazaesims.com

We stand with Palestine.

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!

Artwork by Ezra Syahdian (@hitamatih_)