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* Music/{{Macklemore}}'s "Same Love" is this for gay/lesbian rights, specifically same-sex marriage (and more specifically still, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Referendum_74 Washington state Referendum 74,]] which was on the ballot in Macklemore's home state that year).

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"Same Love" is this for gay/lesbian rights, specifically same-sex marriage (and more specifically still, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Referendum_74 Washington state Referendum 74,]] which was on the ballot in Macklemore's home state that year).year).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmg6vbt04TY Hind's Hall]] condemns the US and Biden administration's support for Israel's genocide in Gaza, as well as the media's silence on critics of Israel and the police brutality against the pro-Palestine protesters.
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* Music/NinaSimone's "Four Women" is more conceptual than your usual protest song, but still falls into this category, as the song introduces four different black women whose lives and identities have been affected by racism and slavery: Aunt Sarah, an enslaved woman; Saffronia, a biracial woman whose black mother was raped by a white man; Sweet Thing, a prostitute; and Peaches, whose parents were enslaved. She also did a rendition of "Strange Fruit," an anti-lynching originally made famous by Music/BillieHoliday.


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** She also has the song "Army Dreamers," sung from the perspective of an Irish mother mourning her young son who was killed in a war, questioning the purpose of a war and taking the futures of so many young men away from them.
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* The 2011 "Long Live Palestine" by underground UK rapper Lowkey criticizes Zionism and the Israeli war crimes committed against Palestinians that get denied and ignored by Western media.

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* Underground UK rapper Lowkey's entire discography is made up of protest songs, much of them railing against racism, Islamophobia, and neo-liberalism. The 2011 song "Long Live Palestine" by underground UK rapper Lowkey criticizes Zionism and the Israeli war crimes committed against Palestinians that get denied and ignored by Western media.media. He has since released two [[SequelSong sequels]] to the song on subsequent releases, as well as "Palestine Will Never Die" in 2023. From "Long Live Palestine:"



* Music/HaruNemuri wrote "Watermelon (Demo)" in support of calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank. The title is reference to how the watermelon became a symbol for Palestine since the Israeli government suppresses the use of the Palestinian flag, confiscating flags and arresting anyone found with one.

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* Music/HaruNemuri wrote "Watermelon (Demo)" in support of calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank. The title is reference to how the watermelon became a symbol for Palestine since the Israeli government suppresses suppressed the use of the Palestinian flag, flag in the 1960s, confiscating flags and arresting anyone found with one.
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--> ''How many more resolutions have to be violated//
How many more children have to be annihilated//
Israel is a terror state, they're terrorists that terrorise//
I testify, my television televised them telling lies//
This is not a war, it is systematic genocide//

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--> ''How many more resolutions have to be violated//
violated\\
How many more children have to be annihilated//
annihilated\\
Israel is a terror state, they're terrorists that terrorise//
terrorise\\
I testify, my television televised them telling lies//
lies\\
This is not a war, it is systematic genocide//genocide\\

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* The 2011 "Long Live Palestine" by underground UK rapper Lowkey criticizes Zionism and the Israeli war crimes committed against Palestinians that get denied and ignored by Western media.
--> ''How many more resolutions have to be violated//
How many more children have to be annihilated//
Israel is a terror state, they're terrorists that terrorise//
I testify, my television televised them telling lies//
This is not a war, it is systematic genocide//
But whatever they try, Palestine will never die''



* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its allegedly militaristic sentiment as well as the alleged death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[HipHop drill]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1." That being said, a lot of the backlash came from people with little to no understanding of Hebrew or Israeli slang, and the language that the celebrities had interpreted as death threats were more akin to saying "karma's a bitch".

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* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its allegedly militaristic sentiment as well as the alleged death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[HipHop drill]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1." That being said, a lot of the backlash came from people with little to no understanding of Hebrew or Israeli slang, and the language that the celebrities had interpreted as death threats were more akin to saying "karma's a bitch".
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* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its pro-imperialist sentiment as well as the death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[HipHop drill]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1."

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* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its pro-imperialist allegedly militaristic sentiment as well as the alleged death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[HipHop drill]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1."" That being said, a lot of the backlash came from people with little to no understanding of Hebrew or Israeli slang, and the language that the celebrities had interpreted as death threats were more akin to saying "karma's a bitch".
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* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its pro-imperialist sentiment as well as the death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[drill HipHop]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1."

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* Israeli duo NessXStila came out with "Harbu Darbu" shortly after the October 7 attacks, channeling the rage Israelis felt at the perceived indifference of the world to the Jewish victims. It namechecks several Hamas and Hezbollah leaders as people who will get theirs, along with celebrities Dua Lipa, Mia Khalifa, and Bella Hadid. The song received a lot of backlash for its pro-imperialist sentiment as well as the death threats made in the lyrics against celebrities who have criticized the Israeli occupation. Mia Khalifa even [[https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/1731099402394059254 responded]] criticizing its use of a [[drill HipHop]] [[HipHop drill]] beat, saying that they "couldn't call for a genocide in their own culture, they had to colonize something to get it to #1."

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