IAC and Israeli Independence Day at Berkeley
Students from the Israel Action Committee at UC Berkeley today celebrated Israeli Independence Day on Sproul Plaza today by introducing the student population to one of the State’s many innovations in the past 59 years: hip-hop music. The new Israeli genre has stirred a musical renaissance world-wide, and pop culture will certainly be indebted to Israel for generations to come.
Meanwhile, in Israel, real activists celebrated the date by asking:
“How can one celebrate independence, while the celebration depends on confining millions of Palestinians?” they asked. “How can one celebrate independence, while millions of people in Israel suffer hunger and poverty while corruption is rampant?”
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