121 hardcore and hardcore-related bands have teamed up for A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for Palestinian Liberation, a compilation which raises money to send aid to Palestinian children in Gaza. The comp includes songs by Racetraitor, Stick To Your Guns, Twitching Tongues, Move, Cloud Rat, END, Terminal Nation, Initiate, ASkySoBlack, Coma Regalia, Thou, .gif from god, Piri Reis, and so many others.
Download it at Bandcamp and stream it and read the organizers’ full statement below.
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“A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation for Palestinian Liberation” is out on bandcamp NOW. We are proud to announce this massive hardcore (and adjacent) benefit compilation to send urgent aid to Palestinian children in Gaza.
All profits will be donated to MECA for Peace to send humanitarian aid to Palestinian youth in Gaza.
More than 115 bands from all over the world (big, small and even brand new ones) came together for this project offering unique contributions (new exclusive songs, live recordings, remixes, some released tracks, etc.), to show a unified message of solidarity to the people of Gaza who are facing a genocide of unprecedented proportions. The hardcore scene must show that our values are not empty words but deep convictions: we walk the talk.
OUR STATEMENT:
For over 75 years, the people of Palestine have been suffering ethnic cleansing, systemic displacement, exploitation, illegal occupation and genocidal practices in their own homeland, under a bloody apartheid regime by the Israeli settler colonial project.
What started with the British colonization of Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century, turned into a violent land grab by the Zionist settlers, which threw the region into turmoil for its native inhabitants, who had been coexisting in relative peace for centuries. Those forced out of their land and living in exile all over the world, their children and grandchildren, are all denied their internationally lawful right to return to their own homes and land that has been brutally stolen from them and appropriated by the Zionist colonial entity.
The people of Gaza, most being refugees of the Nakba and their descendants, half of which are children (53.5% with PTSD pre-Oct. 7th), have been living in “the world’s bigger open air prison” akin to a massive concentration camp, due to a 16 year total blockade of land, sea and sky and are under constant siege, with restricted electricity, water and food.
Contemporaneously, 2023 was the deadliest on record for Palestinians in the West Bank well-before the events of October 7th. We oppose the killing of civilians anywhere and mourn their deaths, but it is foolish to believe this violence from the oppressed exists in a vacuum. The West Bank saw dozens of day-long pogroms, village burnings, thousands of illegal settlement expansions, multiple bombings of hospitals and schools in refugee camps, collective punishment, all war crimes, product of the most far-right, openly fascist Israeli government in history, which has continuously and openly stated their goals of wiping Palestinians off the map.
Today, the Gazans are facing a devastating genocide of unprecedented speed and proportions, with one of the highest rates of deaths in history: more than at least 24.000 people (plus 8.000+ missing trapped under the rubble), including at least 10.400 children, have been brutally murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the 100 days since the brutal retaliation by Hamas on Oct. 7th.
More than 1 in 100 Gazans murdered in only 3 months, hundreds of families completely wiped off the population registry, and the highest number of journalists killed (113) in a single “conflict” in modern history. According to Save the Children, the number of children killed in Gaza in just the first 3 weeks of the assault has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world’s conflict zones since 2019.
Palestinians are being slaughtered indiscriminately by bombs produced and handed out by the western states, fully enabling the Israeli genocide machine with the cannon fodder necessary to continue their shared colonialist project in the area.
For all of the above, it is our moral duty now, like it was for decades before and it will be until Palestinians are liberated, to do everything in our power to provide aid to those in need, protest, spread awareness, organize and take direct action to halt the imperialist war industry. We advocate for freedom, equality and liberation for all in the region.
If you wonder what you would’ve done during slavery or the apartheid in South Africa, what you’re doing now is what you would’ve done then. This is a fight against colonialism and against imperialism. It’s a fight for justice, for human rights, for liberation. Being on the right side of history once history is past is not only useless, it’s betrayal, it’s complicit and it’s lethal.
END THE OCCUPATION – END APARTHEID.
ORGANIZE – PROTEST – BLOCKADE: FIGHT BACK. UNTIL TOTAL LIBERATION.
