Advocating for Peace and Equality in Palestine

When I say Free Palestine

it's not against anyone.

It actually means we should protect

everyone.

It means equality for all, respect, peace,

and love.

It means a right to exist regardless of what

sector you're from.

My intention

is to never offend anyone.

I want every soul in this arena to feel the

reflection of love.

But there's innocent humans out in Gaza getting murdered

with our dollars, and those precious human lives are an

extension of us.

I can't get up here in a fur coat, jump around, and pretend, while

in my gut,

my gut's saying, "You know better, Ben." The ancestors yelling, "You better

step up for us."

I love my Jewish brothers and sisters so much, and my

perspective is one that's saying Free

Palestine is also rooted in your protection,

my loves.

And there isn't a drop of antisemitic thought in my

head or my blood.

Never again means never again for all.

Have we not learned the lessons, my love?

The self-centering around what is potentially threatening

to us is actually at the root of what

disconnects all of us.

The word genocide

is such a point of contention for some,

that it's more hurtful than seeing dead babies getting pulled out of

the crumbled cement and the dust.

Comparative suffering leads to believing the lie.

There's a them, and there's a us. It's a lie.

We don't own this Earth. We're just guests here, my love.

And at some point in time,

we drew lines in the mud

based on the color of our skin, the gods we worshiped, and the

divine up above.

And historically, we've exploited Black and brown

bodies to climb up the rungs. But the ladder

doesn't work when it depends on the oppression of

some.

Mm.

Mm. And I've been hearing the Earth cry

lately.

Yeah, the deepest cries. My, oh my, what have we done?

We got some work to do to unlearn and

rewire the plugs

that are short-circuiting in a selfish cycle.

And we're blind to the drug that we're all addicted to.

Me, myself, I, and not us.

In this moment in time,

we're being called to rise and become,

see ourselves in the pain of others and not separate

from them.

And I'ma say it 'til I die with my chest

to the sky. Free Palestine. The

message is love.