South African-Palestinian music video celebrates common struggle against racial intolerance Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 03/13/2012 In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called "The New Black." The song is taken from The Mavrix's upcoming album, Pura Vida, set for release in June. The release of the song and video was marked on 12 March with a Skype link up between the Soweto Palestine Solidarity Alliance with activists in Palestine to launch Israeli Apartheid Week in Gaza. "This was a momentous moment as it not only signalled a growing impatience with apartheid Israel but also asserted a common bond of struggle against oppression and for a just peace between South Africans and Palestinians," Naazim Adam of South Africa's Palestine Solidarity Alliance wrote in an emailed statement. "Despite being over 1000km apart, Palestinians and So! wetans were able to feel the common brotherhood and sisterhood that unites people against racial intolerance," Adam added. The New Black was written and composed by Jeremy Karodia and Ayub Mayet as "a musical reaction to the horror of the Gaza Massacre of 2008/2009 and then subsequently inspired by the book Mornings in Jenin, authored by Susan Abulhawa," according to notes accompanying the video. The Mavrix recorded their part in South Africa while Omar recorded the Oud in Gaza. Release accompanying ...
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