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Gaza Diary: Musicians Against Genocide

Do CounterPunch, 30 de setembro 2026
Por Jeffrey St. Clair



Kneepcap. Photo: Raph PH. Wikimedia. CC BY 2.0.

I’ll be honest, last week when I heard the Welsh singer Charlotte Church excoriate Ed Sheeran for being a coward and a hypocrite, I had no idea who she was.


Whilst he [Sheeran] has made millions and has an enormous following – he has an enormous platform to do real good in the world – he chose consumerism and capitalism over doing the right thing. So we say the same thing to Ed Sheeran because fuck the fact that musicians shouldn’t be involved in politics. Fuck that shit. Politics is life. Ed Sheeran, we’re watching you.

I do now. I spent a few hours listening to Church’s music and reading about her career. Church is no latecomer to the Palestinian cause. She has been an advocate for Palestinian rights for many years and has spoken out consistently against the Apartheid State well before the Israeli genocide in Gaza. And Church is far from the only one. In fact, hundreds of musicians, bands and record labels have publicly opposed Israel’s genocidal rampages in Gaza, its ethnic cleansing operations in the West Bank and ongoing occupation of Palestinian land. I started compiling a list of musical artists who’ve spoken up for Palestinians, at risk of being blackballed by their own industry. It’s an impressive diversity of artists and musical styles. And it’s surely incomplete. If you know of bands who’ve taken similar stands against genocide and for Palestinians rights, let me know. In the meantime, listen to their music, buy their CDs and LPs and spread the word… –JSC

A-C

A Tribe Called Quest
Aaron Rowe
Albert Dalton
Amyl and the Sniffers
Ana Tijoux
Annie Lennox
Ashnikko
Aurora
Avishai Cohen
Bastille
BB No Money
Beabaddppbee
Belly
Ben Howard
Beoga
Bert McCracken
Billie Eilish
Billy Bragg
Billy Woods
Björk
Blondie
Blood Orange
Bob Vylan
Brian Ennals
Brian Eno
Brother Ali
By Storm (fka Injury Reserve)
Cameron Winter
Cardi B.
Caribou
Caroline Chung
Caroline Polachek
Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam)
Cavetown
Chance the Rapper
Chanel Beads
Chappelle Roan
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Day Wilson
Chelsea Wolfe
Clairo
Coldplay
Corbin
CupcakKe



Kehlani at a protest in solidarity with Palestine, October 2023.
Photo: Wisenerd.
CC BY-SA 4.0

Robert Del Naja for Massive Attack at an anti-genocide protest in London.
(Screen capture from video posted to YouTube.)






Sudan Archives. Photo: Elise Malterre. Wikimedia.
CC BY 2.0


Sudan Archives. Photo: Elise Malterre. Wikimedia. CC BY 2.0

V-Z

Viagra Boys
Vic Mensa
Victoria Monét
Wanees Zaroun and East Loop
Wednesday
Wegz
Wet Leg
Wolf Alice
Yasmine Hamdan
Yassin Bey
Yeule
Young Fathers
Zara Larsson


Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.



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