I want to start this post with something one of my favorite artists said on her Facebook, something I no longer access except through messenger for various reasons.

“Never Again is happening on our watch.”

Azam Ali, who works with the bands Vas and Niyaz and one of the most compassionate artists I know out there, speaks truth to power. She made a statement condemning atrocities done in Gaza; none of which have anything to do with hunting Hamas. Someone in response echoed what people told me when I condemned the war in Iraq: “go back to your country from which you came if you don’t like what we are doing.” This, does not show a care for free speech at all, yet people say we in the United States are in ‘the land of the free, home of the brave.’