Current sectionArt & CultureShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeA screenshot from Saint Levant and Haifa Wehbe's music video for "Mitsubishi," which Shabjdeed directly references in his diss track. Credit: Saint Levant / YouTubeFor Palestinian artists, invoking the cause invites accusations of exploiting it, while ignoring it invites accusations of abandoning it08:11 PM • August 04 2026 IDTWhen Palestinian rapper Shabjdeed released "SLV," there was little ambiguity about its target. Over a fast trap beat, he repeatedly names Saint Levant, questioning how one of the world's most visible Palestinian musicians reconciles a career built around sex, fashion and celebrity with his position as a cultural representative of Palestine.In the NewsA Diss Track of Rapper Saint Levant Asks What Famous Palestinians Should BeUnlike Israel's Latest Influencer, Charli XCX Would Have Recognized RabinThe Way Netanyahu Treated His Brother's Partner Is the Way He Treats IsraelisCan Hot-air Balloons Lift Tourism Back to Israel's Gaza Border?The Massacre That Changed an Entire Documentary on Druze in the Golan HeightsRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIThis Israeli ultra-Orthodox Feminist Activist Has a Warning for U.S. JewsNetanyahu Says Israel Has 'Special Forces' Ready if He's Arrested on NY VisitHow Israel's Elbit Armed the United Arab EmiratesTwo Female Israeli Soldiers Die by Suicide as IDF Mental Health Crisis DeepensDozens of IDF Soldiers Desert Sde Teiman Base in Protest of Commander'I Tried, I Got Crushed by AIPAC': Andy Levin Is All-in for El-Sayed