This Week with David Rovics

New song: "What I Learned from the Hasbara Trolls"

The thousands of troll accounts spewing genocidal propaganda on my Facebook posts are abhorrent and completely full of crap, but they have a fascinating narrative, albeit completely farcical.  All the more fascinating is the fact that, although obviously farcical to anyone with an actual clue, the western press and politicians generally accept the narrative as self-evidently accurate.

bearing witness

a concert for gaza.

The Living Wage for Musicians Act: Why We Should Support It and Why Big Tech Won't

On March 6th, representatives Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman introduced the Living Wage for Musicians Act. They're working with the United Musicians and Allied Workers union, and the Make Streaming Pay campaign.

Wadi Gaza is Arabic for Babi Yar and Aaron Bushnell is American for Szmuel Zygelboym

The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press.

Song for Aaron Bushnell

On the other side of the world, Aaron Bushnell's body burned in the same way the bodies of innocent people are burning every day in Gaza. As he burned he shouted repeatedly, "free Palestine."

New song: "Flour"

After using starvation as a Total War, strategic weapon of collective punishment, the Israeli occupation forces are using food tactically as a weapon of war as well.

What Are the Pro-Israel Trolls Trying to Accomplish?

2,000+ hateful comments and one week later, what I have I learned from the Hasbara Trolls?

Notes from a Month on the Road in California, France and England

Report-back from the tour.

Interview with Regis Tremblay

Award-winning filmmaker Regis Tremblay interviewed me at length earlier today from his home in Crimea. It was a wide-ranging and interesting discussion, if I don't say so myself!  Here's the audio version of it.

"Lines Are Drawn" REMIX

"One side says it's a surgical strike
But that's not what it looks like
To anyone else who's seeing this
It looks just like the apocalypse
It looks like a whole population
Being targeted for total devastation
Times like these, you pick a side
You can't be neutral in a genocide..."

I wrote this song yesterday, as I was anticipating the genocide ruling from the Hague. Today, as the World Court has made clear that it is the responsibility of the world to prevent this genocide from being fully executed, I received this beautiful remixed rendition of the song from Chet.