By Philip Weiss | 23 April 2018
MONDOWEISS — Check out this stirring anthem to freedom in Gaza. It begins with a Palestinian child saying “We shall overcome” and an image of Martin Luther King Jr. and then in many still pictures of the “Great March of Return” conveys the strength of the unarmed resistance to the blockade – including the killing of Yaser Murtaja, the Palestinian journalist who was one of six Palestinian journalists shot by Israeli snipers on April 6.
The imagery is by Sana Kassem, and the video was posted by Norman Finkelstein yesterday on Youtube. The song is “Wings to Fly,” by Susan Boyle. The copy accompanying the video was simply: “A video dedicated to the people of Gaza as they struggle to break out of Israel’s infernal prison.”
Then Youtube took it down today, Finkelstein says, and he and Kassem have posted it now on Vimeo. […]
The great irony is MLK was a paid shill of Zionists. He totally supported the Zionist destruction and erasure of Palestine. He never voiced the slightest concern for Palestinians who were colonized and replaced by Jewish imperialists.
Update on the ongoing Israeli massacre of Gazans, from Arab journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud:
Baroud tells how the new propaganda meme is that the Palestinian children and women being killed and maimed, are ‘human shields for military acts and terrorism’
And that the ICC International Criminal Court is supporting this lie
Ramzy Baroud recalls how people have long asked, ‘Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?’
But now that Gazan Gandhis are being maimed & killed by thousands –
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/05/gazan-gandhis-gaza-bleeds-alone-as-liberals-and-progressives-go-mute/