On Friday a flash mob of campaigners for Palestine took over the concourse of Sheffield Station, singing Carols with new words for Palestine, led by the Tadhamon Singers.
In the Bleak Mid Winter with new words written by the Tadhamon Singers
In the bleak mid winter
In the bleak mid winter
The hunger strikers were
Ignored by David Lammy
And the media
Others looked on silently
How can they allow
Those who stand for justice
To be in prison now?
Our government sends weapons
To murder and to maim
While those who act for justice
It’s they who get the blame.
The terrorists sleep easy
Their war crimes go unseen
While those who work for justice
In prison they remain.
We stand with those on hunger strike
Your struggle will prevail
We know we are the many
The Zionists will fail.
We all must work for freedom
Adallah is our cry
Palestine needs peace now
To live and never die.
Hark and listen to us sing
Hark and listen to us sing
‘Look what’s really happening,
While you sing of peace on earth,
Eat and drink with festive mirth.
Nations, open up your eyes,
Stop the silence and the lies,
And throughout the world proclaim
Free Palestine must be the aim!’
Hark and listen to us sing:
‘Look what’s really happening!’
From the river to the sea
Freedom and equality
End injustice, right the wrongs
No more killing, no more bombs
Genocide must be condemned
Zionism has to end
Take a stand for Palestine
Peace and justice for all time
Hark and listen to us sing:
‘Look what’s really happening!’
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY
Words by Deborah Maccoby
Once in royal David’s city
Stood a big apartheid wall;
People entering and leaving
Had to pass a checkpoint hall.
Bethlehem was strangulated,
And her children segregated.
Though this city is a symbol
To the world of peace and love,
Concrete walls have closed around her,
Settlements expand above.
And apartheid Israel stands
All around on stolen lands.
David’s people once instructed
All the world in righteousness;
Prophets spoke of truth and justice;
Israel’s leaders now oppress.
All who look at Bethlehem
Must speak out the truth to them.
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
Words by Deborah Maccoby
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie!
A wall is laid where tourists stayed,
And people can’t go by.
And in thy dark streets shineth
No cheerful Christmas light;
The hate and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
How silently, how silently
The world regards it all,
As now thy heart is torn apart
By Israel’s ghetto wall.
They terrorise a people,
A war-crime and a sin;
In Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Qalqilya and Bilin.
O ye who now rule Bethlehem,
Cast down the iron cage,
The walls of hate that separate
And harden and enrage.
The land grab and apartheid,
This violence must cease,
If there’s to be a land that’s free,
A Bethlehem at peace.
O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
Words by Deborah Maccoby
O come all ye faithful,
All who care for justice,
O look ye, O look ye at Bethlehem.
Come and behold it
Under occupation.
O come, let’s not ignore it,
O come, let’s not ignore it,
O come, let’s not ignore it,
Tell the world.
Sing, all ye people,
Sing in indignation,
Be with the citizens of Bethlehem.
Sing out for justice,
Freedom from oppression.
O come, let’s not ignore it,
O come, let’s not ignore it,
O come, let’s not ignore it,
Tell the world.
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