I was about to begin my performance in Salisbury last Saturday 2nd November when I heard the shocking news of the arrest of Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors and the founder of the Jewish Network for Palestine. The…

Many of you might be rather surprised and disturbed by the difficulties we encountered in the organising of my concert in Bath last month. Without the dogged and determined efforts over several years of a local community group, Bath Friends…

Poetry: Refaat Alareer (1979-2023); Music: Reem Kelani Whilst I was in hospital over Christmas and New Year, I kept on reading aloud the last poem that Refaat Alareer wrote before he was assassinated by Israel in Gaza. The melody would…

If you support genocide, you have no right to complain about people disliking you for it. If you support genocide and you happen to be Jewish, you have no right to weaponise anti-Semitism against your critics. You bear responsibility for…

It’s no longer a “retaliatory attack”. It stopped being that before it had begun. It’s a genocide, no longer plausible nor probable. A genocide: pure and simple. For seven long months, the killing has been without relent. It’s no longer…

Our existence as Palestinians is a statement in itself. When you say you don’t want “overt” politics, you question our olive oil. You question our songs. You question our poems. You question our very being. Last time I checked, all…