Greetings Fellow Earthlings, Listeners, Creators and Frens,

This is a special edition as it is my intention to put a spotlight on the current situation in Palestine. We currently live in a crazy world. One that would shock even George Orwell, the author of 1984, possibly the most important reference we have of the idea of a dystopian world. It is a world in which freedom of speech is becoming a thing of the past. Thought control is not such a far away idea. A prime example is the deliberate conflation of anti-semitism with anti-Zionism, the philosophy driving the racist, Jewish supremacist state of Israel - practising Apartheid at a level that puts the old South Africa to shame.

This deliberate act implemented by Israeli lobbies in the United States has been partly successful in the world, especially where the Western media propaganda machine has power. Insisting on this false narrative gives licence to silence those opposing this utterly evil regime. So here we have an attempt to control our language i.e. the thought control I spoke of earlier. If repeated enough times to people through the media, eventually it would change the meaning of the word anti-semitism, that is if it were successful. Let’s be clear. My position is anti-Zionist, i.e. I oppose the State of Israel with its Settler Colonialism which has been practising brutal oppression, harassment, domination and the ruthless massacre of the Palestinian people since 1948, culminating in ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide in the current scenario.

Semitic is the languge group including Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic and Arabic and therefore it is an interesting irony in all of this is that the State of Israel is carrying out the most violent anti-Semitic campaign possibly in history, comparable to the previous reference of extreme anti-Semitism, i.e. Nazism in WWII. As Max Blumenthal puts it “Anti-semitism is the fuel of Zionism.”

In the Universal Declaration of Human RIghts there are 30 Articles denominating various rights which are inherent and inalienable to humans, according to the declaration. Glancing through them briefly I can see that a whopping 27 have been violated by the State of Israel !! So it makes sense then that Palestinians are considered by many Israelis to be subhuman or “human animals”.

For the sake of simplicity I will address only 2 of the Articles as I consider them to be the most relevant.

Articles 3 - Everyone has the right to life - and to live in freedom and safety and Article 19 - Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. More on this later.

Now just a word on terrorism. The term invokes feelings of fear, barbarism and disregard for civilian life. The perfect tool for manufacturing consent re: the inhuman nature of the Palestinians. This is then used to justify the indiscriminate slaughter of all Palestinians. The right to resist occupation is also a human right under international humanitarian law. Hamas is the most well known and successful of the resistance organizations, but there are various others too and they are working together to resist the Zionist enemy. Violence begets violence and I will never condone humans deliberately harming each other, but I can’t help draw the comparison between the Palestinian story and that of South Africa.

As Nelson Mandela so clearly explains in his book “The Walk to Freedom”, the ANC first practised non violent resistance as a form of protest. When unsuccessful (SA Police simply brutally oppressed these protests, falsely portraying them as violent through their propaganda machine, the media), they shifted to sabotage, still without the goal to actually harm other humans. Only after the failure of this method did they shift to armed resistance, since no other option was available. A similar scenario has played out in Palestine. I mention all of this as it relates to the “Mind control” aspect of repressing freedom of speech by controlling the language we use to address these issues.

Now there is a notion to repress any adult conversation about the Palestinian situation. As soon as one mentions it with a more objective mature approach of the situation, one is accused by Zionists (or other ignorant groups) of being a terrorist supporter.

It is very important to have this conversation as I believe Palestinians represent all of humanity. Remaining silent in the face of the ultimate act of dehumanisation is equal to being complicit.

I will not be complicit.

I will not be silent.

I will not be silenced.

The reason I mentioned Articles 3 and 19 of UDHR is because I claim the right to freedom and expression (3) by writing a piece of music to speak out for the lives of the Palestinians (19).

This brings me to Web3 and the reason Blockchain and NFTs are so important in the current context. Not only does NFT technology create digital ownership which is itself a revolution, but because of the nature of  Blockchain, it imbues that digital file with immutability - since every single transaction carries with it the entire history of that blockchain - and censorship resistance, which comes from the decentralised nature of blockchain.

The War on Error is the embedded NFT for this entry.

All collectors will be airdropped the original artwork in High Res.

All proceeds go to the cause.

Other editions are available here:

Contextualised by the above article, it is my expression of protest against the slaughter, subjugation, ethnic cleansing, bullying, harassment, genocide, Apartheid and de-humanisation of the Palestinian people by the Zionist entity.

I was not alone in this project.

Shoutout to the amazing Spunspazm for doing an incredible job on the visual art of this piece.

Mastering by Colin @ Stooodio Mastering

Further useful resources:

Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel - Max Blumenthal

Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom - Norman Finkelstein

The Punishment of Gaza - Gideon Levy

Gaza fights for Freedom - Abby Martin

The Lobby - AlJazeera Investigations

The General’s Son - Miko Peled

https://killinggaza.com/

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism

https://promisedlandmuseum.org/gabor-mate/

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