Jabaliya by David Rovics

As the genocide of the Palestinian people carried out by the Israeli military accelerates, I haven't written as much as I did during the first several months of the Israeli horrors. Every murdered child deserves many songs, but at the same time, what more is there to say? How many different ways are there to rephrase "stop killing the children"?

But I did write nine songs, and one poem, between August and October, 2024, and they're all on this album, along with a new recording of a song I wrote in 2016 (guess which one).

Tracklist

1.	The Constitution Is My Permit	2:28

2.	In Wisconsin in 1854 (Song for Joshua Glover)	4:26

3.	Section 12 (Do You Support the Resistance)	2:39

4.	On the Streets of London (Free Sarah Wilkinson)	2:16

5.	Aysenur	3:40

6.	Ballad of Donald and Kamala (When It Comes to Israel)	3:29

7.	Whatever They'll Pay (Ballad of Lars Fruergaard Joergensen)	2:29

8.	Jill Stein	2:44

9.	The Generals' Plan	2:07

10.	Arc of Justice	2:41

11.	Jabaliya	2:59

Credits

released October 26, 2024

If you hear vocal harmonies, that's my singing and touring partner, Kamala Emanuel, from Brisbane, Australia -- the other half of the Ministry of Culture.

Otherwise everything other than the voices and whichever instrument I'm playing (usually guitar, sometimes mandola) is Chet Gardiner, who improved the tone and added instrumentation to everything from his home studio in Hawai'i.

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.