New Macklemore song celebrates anti-Israel campus protests

• Published date: 07 May 2024
• Author: HANNAH BROWN
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

In a new song he just released on his Instagram account, "Hind's Hall," he celebrates the masked throngs who occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York two weeks ago, dubbing it Hind's Hall to honor a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who was killed Israel's war in Gaza, one of many civilians not allowed by Hamas to take shelter in its vast network of tunnels

"Block the barricade until Palestine is free," he sings. As he praises the protesters, he makes sure to mention that there are Jews among them and asserts that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, as well as accusing Israel of genocide, apartheid, and colonization.

Song combines footage of students calling for "intifada"

The song video combines footage of the demonstrations with news clips from Gaza, where students all over the US have chanted to "globalize the Intifada" and "Burn down Tel Aviv," as well as threatening that the October 7 massacre by Hamas in which 1,200 people were killed in Israel, and 250 people from all around the world and from many religions were kidnapped into Gaza, will be repeated. The video also includes images from anti-police protests in the US and he doesn't neglect to repeat calls made a few years ago in America to "F**k the police." Among the groups he disparages are AIPAC and CUFI (Christians United for Israel). Politicians shown as he sings lines meant to put them in a negative light include Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Senator Mitch McConnell, and George Latimer, who is running against anti-Israel "Squad" member Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

But the main agenda expressed in the song is against US President Joe Biden, about whom he sings, "The blood is on your hands, Biden, we can see it all/And f**k no, I'm not voting for you in the fall."

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