By Sammy Baroud
Il rapper e cantautore americano Macklemore ha pubblicato il suo attesissimo brano Hinds Hall 2 venerdì.
Questo inno alla Palestina è il seguito della sua canzone Hinds Hall, che ha ottenuto milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube, Instagram e altre piattaforme di social media.
La canzone prende il nome dalla Hall della Columbia University che un tempo si chiamava Hamiltons Hae che è stata rinominata Hinds Hall dagli attivisti studenteschi filo-palestinesi in onore di Hind Rajab, la bambina uccisa senza pietà dalle forze di occupazione israeliane a gennaio, insieme a sei membri della sua famiglia e a due paramedici intervenuti per salvarla.
La canzone vede anche la partecipazione dell’artista palestinese-americano Anees e del rapper quindicenne di Gaza MC Abdul.
Il testo è potente e la frase principale del ritornello, cantata da Anees, può essere tradotta con “Nella nostra vita saremo liberi e potranno seppellirci, ma scopriranno che siamo semi”.
"Hind Rajab's mum, we see you! We heard your daughter's cries."
Palestine Action shuts down and occupies Grid Defence Systems, a military hardware supplier for Israel’s largest arms firm, Elbit Systems.pic.twitter.com/wFM4f8HVyI
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) June 27, 2024
Anche il video musicale realizzato per la canzone è particolarmente evocativo e mostra numerose scene drammatiche vissute a Gaza negli ultimi 11 mesi di genocidio.
Il verso di Macklemore è particolarmente d’impatto, e glorifica la resistenza palestinese dicendo: “Lunga vita alla resistenza se c’è qualcosa per cui resistere”.
Sullo sfondo del video, passano in rassegna vecchi filmati dell’IRA (Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese), di Malcolm X, di membri del partito delle Pantere Nere, nonché di bambini gazawi che lanciano sassi contro i carri armati israeliani.
L’artista esprime anche le sue forti convinzioni anti-sioniste quando dice: “Per un minuto ho cercato di fare da ponte, ma non ci sarà mai libertà supplicando i sionisti”.
HIND’S HALL 2 VIDEO… All Proceeds from the song are going to @unrwausa
Video edited by Omar Alali pic.twitter.com/1BtWDZBdpX— Macklemore (@macklemore) September 20, 2024
Nel testo, c’è anche la ferma condanna alla vicepresidente e attuale candidata democratica alle presidenziali, Kamala Harris. “Ehi Kamala, non so se mi stai ascoltando, ma smetti di mandare soldi e armi o non vincerai in Michigan”.
Come accennato, questa non è la prima canzone a favore della Palestina o la prima manifestazione pubblica dell’importante artista di Seattle.
Macklemore è stato forse il musicista mainstream più esplicito sul genocidio di Gaza sin dall’inizio della guerra, nonostante non sia palestinese, arabo o musulmano.
Il potente testo di Macklemore non è solo una bella dimostrazione di solidarietà, ma dimostra al mondo che la questione palestinese è una questione di umanità e che a tua formazione o la tua origine non hanno nulla a che fare con la tua posizione in merito.
Taking over Hamilton Hall as done in 1968, Columbia students unfurl a banner that reads "Hind's Hall," in reference to Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces.
Hundreds of students cheer as the banner is revealed, erupting into chants to "Free Palestine." pic.twitter.com/Oi8WgdZmqf— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) April 30, 2024
Il testo completo qui
In our lifetime we will be free
One day when the light shines we will be free
In our lifetime we will be free
And they can bury us
But they will find out we are seeds
Oo-ohhh, Oo-ohhh
Oo-ohhh, Oo-ohhh
They can bury us
But they will find out we are seeds
Verse 1: Anees
I say free Falasteen because I know of every massacre we suffered
The Nakba, Sabra, Shatila, Rafah
My people have died a million times in their struggles
‘Til they rise from the tidеs
Like a rose through the rubblе
I see God himself in the eye of a refugee
Who’d rather die a martyr than live a life under siege
So if I’m not allowed to say “From the River to the Sea”
Then “From the rind to the seed Palestine will be free”
Still, they know they can’t shake us
Billion-dollar sword to the neck
Death cannot break us
And every Palestinian refugee holds a key
One day we will return
No matter how long it takes us
Chorus: Anees & Choirs, Macklemore
In our lifetime we will be free
One day when the light shines we will be free
In our lifetime we will be free
And they can bury us
But they will find out we are seeds
Oo-ohhh, Oo-ohhh
Oo-ohhh, Oo-ohhh
They can bury us
But they will find out we are seeds
Verse 2: MC Abdul
(Yeah, yeah)
I’ve seen massacres, I’m grateful to be alive
You appreciate life when you survive a genocide
Look in my eyes and tell me what you see
Ran out of tears to cry, rap ‘til Palestine is free
Got a problem with the system that doesn’t want us existing
Turn a city to a prison that’s missing living conditions
My moms calling, she’s telling me she’s kinda scared
I hear the bombs fallin’, I smell the death up in the air
My uncle lost his children, I lost my cousins
As tears water their grave to let them know he still loves ‘em
Our schools turn to shelters for the rich and poor
I just pray for peace
When I speak I don’t wish for war
Bodies layin’ out, ain’t nothing to play about
I give the people hope ‘cause I’m the first who made it out
I’m just walking the path, this is God’s plan
Building up my dreams, from the rubble I touched with my hands
Chorus: Amer Zahr & Choirs
في حياتنا منكون حرين
يلمع النور ومنكون حرين
في حياتنا منكون حرين
لو دفنونا منرجع مزهرين
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
Verse 3: Macklemore
They done woke up the world now
We know who you serve at the White House
To kids in Gaza my vow right now
I’ma ride for your life like you were my child
Long live the resistance if there’s something to resist
Had enough of you motherfuckers murdering little kids
PC for a minute I was trynna be a bridge
But there’ll never be freedom by pleading with Zionists
World screaming, “Free Palestine”
We see the Manual we know how you colonized
You’d be surprised by how many fucks we actually really don’t give
When you take away that power of the all-mighty dollar sign
Fuck the allure, we’ll boycott the stores
Capitalism killing us that’s something we can’t afford
They want us to hate each other in the interest of war
Afraid of the mosque and afraid to light the menorah
Hey Kamala, I don’t know if you’re listening
But stop sending money and weapons or you ain’t winning Michigan
We uncommitted, and hell no we ain’t switching positions
Because the whole world turned Palestinian
I see them murdered children in Gaza and I see my babies
Life being stripped from the bombs we’re making
When will Congress decide a Palestinian’s life is just as precious as an Israeli’s
We don’t own the earth, don’t own the earth
We’re killing each other over some lines in the dirt
We bleed the same blood, feel the same hurt
Palestinian life, does it have the same worth?
What happened to us?
What happened to us?
Chorus: Amer Zahr & Choirs
في حياتنا منكون حرين
يلمع النور ومنكون حرين
في حياتنا منكون حرين
لو دفنونا منرجع مزهرين
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be free
(The Palestine Chronicle)
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