If you cannot see the video, go to the ETA site.
One word: INCREDIBLE. Invincible, a Detroit-based MC and activist, really hits home with this track, which is artfully weaved into an artistic muso-mentary by Iqaa The Olivetone. It is part of a project, Emergence Travel Agency, which creates “media that resists displacement, gentrification, colonization, occupation, obstruction of movement, denial of the right to leave, and denial of the right to return.”
Suhell Nafar from Dam, and Abeer (aka Sabrina Da Witch), bring their skills to bear on the project.
I heard Invincible perform these lyrics before and the destroyed me then. They were a long time in the writing but as you can see, the finished project is an intelligent and undeniably powerful hip-hop polemic. If there are any Zionist hip-hop heads out there, they won’t be standing after they hear this one.
People Not Places (Detroit, New York, Palestine, 12 min)
Directed by Iqaa The Olivetone
Score by Vaughan T (LABTECHS)
Produced by EMERGENCE and Palestine Education Project
This docu-music-video is based on the song of the same name by Invincible featuring Abeer and Suhell Nafar (DAM). Invincible plays two characters in the video: a Birthright Israel tour recruiter, styled as a used car salesman; and herself, subverting the recruiter’s mission by exposing the buried Palestinian significance of each location in the tour.
Invincible exposes the process of historic and continued colonization of Palestine as being even deeper than land seizure and ethnic cleansing, but one that attempts to erase the indigenous language, culture, and memory of Palestinians.
Intertwined with the music video are interviews that expose how Zionist claims to a Jewish “birthright” to Palestine have come at the expense of the Palestinian Right of Return to their indigenous land. These interviews show how the Right of Return of Palestinians is interconnected with the resistance of occupied and displaced refugee communities globally, from Turtle Island to Puerto Rico and beyond.
People Not Places is featured on Invincible’s ShapeShifters album, available in the EMERGENCE Store.
Read lyrics and explanations for People Not Places.
Related posts:
- Video: Hip-Hop in Palestine
- Watch The Palestine Center Symposium on the 1967 War
- Palestinian Hit Song Celebrates Hizballah
- 9 Places That Remind Palestinians of Home
- Update on Busta Rhymes’ song
Will, you dong know what you are talking about. I have copy of Iron Sheikh's debut album. Nobody can touch that.
Posted by jawad | August 15, 2009, 5:50 amwhat do you mean?
Posted by Marwa | August 15, 2009, 7:32 amAnd in other news:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8202746.st…
The Hamas organisation that controls Gaza has launched a bloody crackdown on a radical Islamist group after it declared Gaza an "Islamic emirate". At least 16 people died and scores were injured when Hamas fighters attacked the Jund Ansar Allah group in a mosque in Rafah, near the Egypt border.
Pretty soon, y'all will get killed just for listening to that stuff. But it's all good, right? Any sacrifice for the sake of resistance.
Posted by programmer craig | August 15, 2009, 7:39 amHamas cracks down on an organisation with links to Al-Qaeda and you manage to twist that into people being executed for listening to music?
Posted by Shafiq | August 15, 2009, 4:12 pmYup! You got a problem with that?
Posted by programmer craig | August 15, 2009, 5:21 pmPS-Doesn't HAMAS kinda have links to al Qiada?
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 10:06 amYeah. Turns out HAMAS does have links to al Qaida.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c…
And that was written before HAMAS praised Zarqawi and al Qaida in Iraq to high heavens! And now they object to a group in Gaza wanting to do exactly what Zarqawi did in Iraq which they thought was so spectacularly great for Iraqis? Not good for Palestinians, though?
Looks like HAMAS needs to kill HAMAS now. Bummer.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 10:11 amPC's sources: The IDF and Mahmoud Abbas' 'concerns'
Author of Article: Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations.
HAH!
Hamas has links to both Iran AND Al-Qaida. Iran and Al-Qaida are ideological enemies, with Al-Qaida seeing the Shiite Iranians as 'infidels'.
Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood – both organisations were swift to condemn 9/11. The Al-Qaida members that started off from Muslim Brotherhood, left because of their frustration at the non-Jihadist attitudes of the Muslim Brothers. And that means Hamas has links with Al-Qaeda?
I'm confused.
Posted by Shafiq | August 16, 2009, 11:23 amAre you accusing the Israeli guy of being wrong, or are you accusing him of being a Jew?
I hope you don't expect me or any other rational person to subscribe to the level of bigotry involved where we disqualify people's opinions just because of their ethnicity or their religion?
I'm confused.
That's a cop out. Your problem is extreme bigotry, not confusion. You dismiss facts because they come from sources you consider dubious, and you accept lies because they come from sources you consider legitimate.
There is no doubt that HAMAS has close ties to al Qaida. None.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 6:46 pmI'm accusing him of having an axe to grind because he's a former member of a government that is (and was at the time of his tenure) at war with the subject of his article. His ethnicity or religion has nothing to do with it.
The claim that Hamas and Al-Qaeda is full of contradictions and logical fallacies. The points made in the article are either a) unproven or b) circumstancial. It is quite clear to all who DON'T have an axe to grind, that Hamas does not have links to Al-Qaeda.
BTW, I did search "HAMAS al Qaida links" into Google and got three articles claiming Hamas-Al-Qaeda links and a couple more about Abbas' 'suspicions'. The first was the one you gave above, the second was from Ynet and the third from JPost. It seems Israelis (and Mahmoud Abbas) see something that the rest of the world doesn't..
I also found this: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3762223… and this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4776…
Posted by Shafiq | August 16, 2009, 7:02 pmPS… are you seriously claiming that HAMAS is "non-Jihadist"?
Because, taht would be an incredibly stupid claim to make, don't you think?
And that means Hamas has links with Al-Qaeda?
No, the links to al Qaida mean that HAMAS has links to al Qaida.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 6:51 pmNo, I'm claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood is non-Jihadist.
And if we're talking Jihadist as in 'worldwide war against the infidel' Jihadist, then yes, neither is Hamas.
What links to Al-Qaeda? Some Al-Qaeda members used to be Muslim Brothers which is the sister organisation of Hamas, which means Hamas has links to Al-Qaeda? You sound like a birther
Posted by Shafiq | August 16, 2009, 7:06 pmNo, I'm claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood is non-Jihadist.
And if we're talking Jihadist as in 'worldwide war against the infidel' Jihadist, then yes, neither is Hamas.
What links to Al-Qaeda? Some Al-Qaeda members used to be Muslim Brothers which is the sister organisation of Hamas, which means Hamas has links to Al-Qaeda? You sound like a birther / 9/11 truther
Posted by Shafiq | August 16, 2009, 7:06 pmAnd if we're talking Jihadist as in 'worldwide war against the infidel' Jihadist, then yes, neither is Hamas.
Well, if we are doing that then neither was al Qaida in Iraq.
Some Al-Qaeda members used to be Muslim Brothers which is the sister organisation of Hamas
Some HAMAS members used to be members of al Qaida. Many HAMAS members received training at al Qaida camps. There have been dozens (probably hundreds actually) of consultations re: planning and policy between HAMAS and al Qaida leadership. HAMAS expressly and openly supported al Qaida in Iraq, including supporting Zarqawi by name and referring to him as a martyr when he was killed.
There's much more, but if you can figure out how to use Google properly you won't need me to explain it to you.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 9:19 pmWell, if we are doing that then neither was al Qaida in Iraq.
No. If you look at their aims: First to get rid of the allied forces, Second 'marginalise' (slaughter on masse) the Shiite population, establish a pure Islamic state in Iraq and THEN help OBL with his global Jihad.
Some HAMAS members used to be members of al Qaida. Many HAMAS members received training at al Qaida camps. There have been dozens (probably hundreds actually) of consultations re: planning and policy between HAMAS and al Qaida leadership. HAMAS expressly and openly supported al Qaida in Iraq, including supporting Zarqawi by name and referring to him as a martyr when he was killed.
Really? Because I did the Google Search, as you asked, and got nothing.
Posted by Shafiq | August 17, 2009, 8:39 amAnd one more thing… some of al Qaida's current leadership is former HAMAS.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 9:21 pmlike who?
And even if your right, which you aren't. The word FORMER means a lot.
Al-Qaeda hates Hamas, and Hamas HATES Al-Qaeda. This is a fact, deal with it.
Posted by Arayus | August 17, 2009, 5:16 amBy the way, don't take my word for it. Type "HAMAS al Qaida links" into Google. It's a veritable treasure trove!
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 10:12 amYeah, a treasure trove of JudeoNazi agit prop…like WMD in Iraq….over 2 million people were killed because that stuff. Your (vermin) job is to demonize Arabs so that the brain dead Americans will kill them for you. Enjoy yourself… the world has seen your cruelty, and your bloodlust. And we are keeping track of how flippant you (ZIONISTS) are about the death of others. We'll remember that next time you're fiddling on the roof. We have also seen your hysterical denounciations of everything and everyone. You babykillers tried to make Mary Robinson look bad. Sick!
Posted by Chauncey | August 16, 2009, 3:21 pmblah blah blah, Chauncey. Somebody like you calls undisputable evidence "agit prop" but you give these KABOBfest fuckers total props for telling outright and obvious lies.
Boring.
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 6:48 pmStill don't get it
Posted by Marwa | August 15, 2009, 7:57 amno…sacrifice for the sake of resistance makes no sense
Posted by Marwa | August 15, 2009, 7:59 amthat's not why
Posted by Marwa | August 15, 2009, 8:01 amI'm trying to survive this bullshit so don't make it worse
Posted by Marwa | August 15, 2009, 8:05 amYergh! Hip hop! What ever happened to black music to turn it into such garbage? We would not have a Middle East conflict if Howlin' Wolf was still alive.
Posted by xoggoth | August 15, 2009, 9:38 amActually, we would not have had a Mid East problem had the Palestinians taken the first curly Shlomo from Moldovia and ripped of his head off and crapped down his throat. They ended up being called terorrists anyways.
Posted by Chauncey | August 16, 2009, 3:30 pmif u wabt hip hop 2 crush ur soul:
goto http://www.muslimhiphop.net and dwnlod the Palestine Album Vol 2
MINDBLOWIN!!
Posted by OooKhalid | August 15, 2009, 7:49 pmOoo-pps wrong website.
This is the One.
<a href="http://www.muslimrap.net” target=”_blank”>www.muslimrap.net
M*IND_F_BLOWIN
Posted by OooKhalid | August 16, 2009, 5:07 ami can't get the video or links to work – anyone else having this problem?
Posted by satyagraha | August 16, 2009, 6:45 pmI'm accusing him of having an axe to grind because he's a former member of a government that is (and was at the time of his tenure) at war with the subject of his article. His ethnicity or religion has nothing to do with it.
Really? His religion and ethnicity has nothing to do with it? So we should automatically exclude any statements made by an Arab or a Muslim if they have any current or past position in a government or any sort of NGO, due to them having "an axe to grind"? Is that a position you would support, Shafiq? If not, then please explain to me how his religion and ethnicity have nothing to do with it?
The claim that Hamas and Al-Qaeda is full of contradictions and logical fallacies. The points made in the article are either a) unproven or b) circumstancial. It is quite clear to all who DON'T have an axe to grind, that Hamas does not have links to Al-Qaeda.
And are you claiming YOU don't have an axe to grind? lol.
At least the former ambassador presented facts to back up his claims. All you presented to back up your dismissal of his claims was overt bigotry.
BTW, I did search "HAMAS al Qaida links" into Google and got three articles claiming Hamas-Al-Qaeda links and a couple more about Abbas' 'suspicions'. The first was the one you gave above, the second was from Ynet and the third from JPost. It seems Israelis (and Mahmoud Abbas) see something that the rest of the world doesn't..
Try it without the quotes
And did you seriously not know that using quotes in Google means you want a literal exact match?
Posted by programmer craig | August 16, 2009, 9:15 pmYes, really. His ethnicity has nothing to do with it. It's the same reason why I wouldn't believe an article on Tibet written by a former Chinese Ambassador to the UN. And it's the same reason why I wouldn't trust Fatah claims about Hamas and vice versa. It's not ethnicity or religion, it's their political beliefs.
The ambassador presented unproven claims, which in no way show that Hamas has links to Al-Qaeda. I also think the recent episode of violence in Gaza, proves this 'fact' beyond doubt.
P.S. I DID do the search without quotes, and the results I gave were the ones that I found. I also redid the search using the more common spelling 'Al-Qaeda' and found the same articles.
Posted by Shafiq | August 17, 2009, 8:34 amYes, really. His ethnicity has nothing to do with it. It's the same reason why I wouldn't believe an article on Tibet written by a former Chinese Ambassador to the UN. And it's the same reason why I wouldn't trust Fatah claims about Hamas and vice versa. It's not ethnicity or religion, it's their political beliefs.
The ambassador presented unproven claims, which in no way show that Hamas has links to Al-Qaeda. I also think the recent episode of violence in Gaza, proves this 'fact' beyond doubt.
P.S. I DID do the search without quotes, and the results I gave were the ones that I found. I also redid the search using the more common spelling 'Al-Qaeda' and found the same articles.
Posted by Shafiq | August 17, 2009, 8:34 amWhy do the people who run this blog allow douchebags like progammer craig to continue posting when all they do is create diversions and intellectually dishonest arguments?
Let this scumbag go back to the YNet/Haaretz/JPost shit-hole of a commenting section where he belongs alongside all the other Jewish supremacists/fascists/morons.
Posted by LD | August 18, 2009, 1:13 ami'm all for palestine but this video is lame as shit.
Posted by you | August 18, 2009, 9:42 amthe music is good but it would be more effective as an uninterrupted song than mixing in the preaching/lectures in between. — dj x the palestinian.
Posted by dj x the palestinian | August 22, 2009, 11:41 pmI'm trying to survive this bullshit so don't make it worse
Posted by girlmerry | June 11, 2011, 1:55 amHiya Delmer Noland here. Have you ever considered creating an ebook or guest authoring on other sites? I have a blog based upon on the same subjects you discuss at http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/08/people-not-places-greatest-hip-hop-song-for-palestine-ever.html and would love to have you share some stories/information. I know my viewers would value your work. If you’re even remotely interested, feel free to send me an email.
Posted by Delmer Noland | July 24, 2011, 4:10 pm