“You have blood on your hands, Biden.” The American rapper Macklemore presented this Tuesday, May 7, a new song on Instagram in support of the Palestinians in Gaza. Baptized Hind HallThis title also pays tribute to the pro-Palestinian students who demonstrated at American universities and were arrested by the police.
“What threatens to denounce and want peace? The problem is not the protests, but why they protest. This goes against what our country finances. Keep the barricades up until Palestine is free,” the artist raps.
“If students in tents set up on grass and occupying land is really against the law and is a reason to call in the police and their reinforcements, where does genocide fit into your definition?” Macklemore continues in his song.
“The music industry is silent”
The name “Hind’s Hall” refers to a building at Columbia University in New York, occupied by students and renamed in memory of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl murdered in Gaza.
In this article, Macklemore also makes it known that he will not vote for Joe Biden in the US presidential election in November due to his support for Israel.
“You have blood on your hands, Biden, we can see it all. And no, I will not vote for you in the fall. Undecided. You can’t distort the truth, the people here are united,” says the rapper. .
He added: “We see the lies they convey. Pretending to be anti-Zionist is anti-Semitic. I saw my Jewish brothers and sisters stand in solidarity and shout Free Palestine.”
With Hind HallMacklemore also denounces the silence of the music industry, which is more passionate about the confrontation between Drake and Kendrick Lamar than about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
“The music industry is silent, it is complicit in its policy of silence. What happened to the artists? What do you have to say? (…) I want a cease and desist, not a fucking response from Drake,” Macklemore raps.
Listened to by more than 80 million Internet users on Instagram, Hind Hall will be released soon on streaming platforms. Thereafter, all proceeds from the title will be donated to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Macklemore said.
Source: BFM TV
