[News] Israeli Police try to shut down Palestinian rapper’s show at Christmas market

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Israeli Police try to shut down Palestinian rapper’s show at Christmas
marketDecember 21, 2022
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Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli occupation police tried on Saturday to
shut down a music performance by popular Palestinian rapper Tamer Nafar,
claiming his rap is an “incitement against the state of Israel”.

Local reports said the Israeli policemen interrupted Nafar and shouted at
him to “get off” the stage while performing the Salam Ya Sahbi song at a
Christmas market in Kafr Yasif near Akko city in 1948-occupied Palestine.

Nafar refused to comply and told the policemen that he had not finished his
performance.

The police officer then said, “Get off or I’ll bring you down” to which
Nafar replied, “Come up and take me down.”

When the rapper got off the stage after finishing his song, about 10
policemen tried to pull him out of the area with one officer pulling him by
his neck, reports added.

Some of the organizers and council members of Kafr Yasif town then
confronted the officers.

In video footage posted by the rapper on his official social media
accounts, the policeman said, “He [Nafar] raps against the police. His rap
is incitement against the state of Israel. He will not continue his show.
An officer will arrive in a bit to shut down the whole show.”

Tamer said the show continued nonetheless in a message at the end of the
video, adding “nothing will stop us.”

The police tried to shut down my show at the Xmas Celebration! Don’t worry,
the show goes on.U cant stop the truth. SHUKRAN KUFOR YASSIF
الشرطة بتحاول ايقاف عرضي في عيد الميلاد المجيد! مهم اذكر انو العرض انعمل
بالاخر، ما ح توقفو الحقيقة !شكراً ل جدعان وجدعات كفر ياسيف #ابن_اللد
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— Tamer Nafar (@TamerNafar) December 19, 2022
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This is not the first time Israeli police tried to shut down Nafar’s shows
and silence him as the prominent rapper from the Lod city who is a founder
member of the first Palestinian hip-hop group DAM has been a frequent
target of right-wing criticism in ‘Israel’ for years.

In 2016, then-Culture Israeli Minister Miri Regev left the Ophir Prize
ceremony when Nafar sang a song containing words by the Palestinian poet
Mahmoud Darwish. She also demanded that Haifa’s mayor cancel Nafar’s
participation in the Haifa Film Festival, claiming Nafar’s words served to
legitimise “terrorism” and undermine the State of ‘Israel’.

Following an appeal by extremist Israeli MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, Social
Services Minister Meir Cohen stopped a promotional campaign by an
organization fighting violence against children in which the rapper took
part. Cohen ordered the removal of another video, which Nafar produced with
the NGO Itach-Ma’aki – Women Lawyers for Social Justice, to encourage women
to turn to sexual assault help centers.
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