Israeli-Palestinian Musician’s Subversive Critique of Mizrahi Politics-Culture

By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam | August 20, 2015 The controversial Israeli-Palestinian performer, Jowan Safadi, produced a new song, It’s Hard to Be an Arab, which features a provocative YouTube video. When I first listened to it without knowing anything about Safadi, I thought he might be a Mizrahi Jew satirizing his own ethnic community’s prejudices. […]

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