LONDON: British protest singer Billy Bragg has unveiled a new track, titled “Hundred Year Hunger,” in solidarity with the people of Palestine and a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza that includes activist Greta Thunberg, it was reported on Tuesday.
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Bragg said on Instagram that the song “looks at the current famine that Israel has created in Gaza through the lens of a century of enforced food insecurity and malnutrition imposed on the Palestinian people, firstly by British imperialism, then as a weapon of mass displacement by the state of Israel,” The Guardian reported.
The track, which features a chorus in Arabic, takes its title from a book by E. Mark Windle and will raise funds for the Amos Trust’s Gaza Appeal.
In it, Bragg sings: “Now my children ask me why the watching world is standing by / While Israel creates famine as a weapon in their war.”
