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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Laura Snapes

Billy Bragg releases song in support of Palestine and Greta Thunberg aid flotilla

Billy Bragg performing at Glastonbury 2025.
Billy Bragg performing at Glastonbury 2025. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian

Billy Bragg has released a new original song to show his support for the people of Palestine. The title of Hundred Year Hunger was inspired by a new book of the same name by E Mark Windle about the history of chronic malnutrition and deprivation in Gaza and will raise money for the Amos Trust’s Gaza Appeal.

Writing on Instagram, the British protest singer said 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”.

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