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World Tour #18 - Israel & Palestine 2026 Update

  • peterjhyland
  • 1 day ago
  • 2 min read


Sun Never Sets On Music's never-ending World Tour returns to Palestine & Israel, as we supplement our May 2024 playlist of music from the war-torn land.


I posted that playlist around 7 months after the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, which killed around 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals. The Israeli response to this heinous act had been and continues to be brutal - around 35,000 confirmed Gazan deaths by then and 72,000 now; physical anniahlaton of the territory. The relentless barrage continues, with the loss of 1,500 Gazans every month. The Israeli toll - also tragically unnecessary - averages 40 to 50 per month and 2,000 to date.


This asymmetrical retaliation by the Israeli government is surely genocidal: "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group." .


As I prepared this playlist I was dismayed to find a similar asymmetry in the music: only one Israeli album released from 2024 to 2026 ("Lider Mit Palestin: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love", a compilation by various artists) is explicitly framed around or dedicated to concern about the loss of life and physical destruction in Gaza.


A generation ago a man of Jewish heritage wrote "Masters of War".


Where are his successors?


Albums are listed in order of release date:

  • Tamer Nafar - In the name of the father, the Imam & John Lennon

  • The Together For Palestine - Lullaby (single)

  • Itzik Dadya - FOREVER

  • Naftali Kemph - Ad Sheyavo Masiach

  • Yosef Gutman & Peter Broderick - River of Eden

  • zeyne - AWDA

  • Ahmed Muin & Friends - Life Is Hard As Mud

  • Various Artists - Lider Mit Palestin: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love

  • El Far3i - Rap Sharq El Nahir

  • Various Artists - Unboundable: BDS Mixtape Vol. 1-3

  • Compilation - Only Sounds That Tremble Through Us

  • Llunr - Dual Reality (Deluxe)

  • Anouar Brahem - After The Last Sky

  • Cinema Royal, Natai Hershkovits, Rejoicer - Cinema Royal

  • Pallatte - Oasis of Peace

  • Tomer Cohen - Story of a Traveler

  • Saint Levant ‑ Love Letters / رسائل حب

  • Yosef Gutman - Resisei Lyla

  • Faraj Suleiman - Maryam

  • Various Artists - Mitz LaMax

  • Oz Noy, David Kikoski, James Genus, Clarence Penn - Fun One

  • Lowkey - Soundtrack to the Struggle

  • Avishai Cohen - Brightlight

  • Shamaly - Bdl Faqed

  •  Noga Erez ‑ The Vandalist

  • Nemahsis - Verbathim

  • Yosef Gutman, Itay Sher - Unity

  • Yemen Blues - Only Love Remains

  • Nissim Black – Glory

  • Yosef Gutman - Why Ten?

  • Oded Tzur, Nitai Hershkovits, Petros Klampanis, Cyrano Almedia - My Prophet

  • Saint Levant ‑ Deira

  • • Belly ‑ 96 Miles from Bethlehem

  • Bedouin Burger, Zeid Hamdan, Lynn Adib - Ma Li Beit

  • Shai Maestro - Solo Miniatures and Tales

  • Elyanna ‑ Woledto


May songs of peace be soon heard again across the Holy Land.


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