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The Sound of Music, Mideast Style

The BBC discovers that hip hop helps drive the Arab Spring. After all, Music and revolutions have a long history. With the Beeb on record that music has power to shape people’s views, how about…

Pesach Benson
July 25, 2011
12:00 am

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The BBC discovers that hip hop helps drive the Arab Spring. After all,

Music and revolutions have a long history.

With the Beeb on record that music has power to shape people’s views, how about a look at the incitement against Israel aired on Palestinian TV?

Here’s but one example flagged by Palestinian Media Watch.

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Tags: Arab Spring, Palestinian incitement

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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