A dream for Palestine

By Gilad Atzmon

23 January 2010

On the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Gilad Atzmon shares his dream of a Palestine free of Zionism, racism and apartheid.

I also have a dream that one day the Jewish state – a state sweltering in the heat of injustice, sweltering in the heat of oppression – will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and fairness.

"I have a dream that in the 'Jew-only state' people will not be judged according to the blood of their (Jewish) mother, but rather by the content of their character."

I have a dream that in the “Jew-only state” people will not be judged according to the blood of their (Jewish) mother, but rather by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Israel, in spite of their racist foreign minister, mass-murderer defence minister and Jewish supremacist prime minister, one day right there in between the river and the sea boys and girls will be able to join hands as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every “Separation Wall” will be rubble. The horror of the refugee camps will be made plain and the crooked Israeli town will be made straight by Palestinians returning to their homes, villages, fields and orchards. "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." God Almighty, we are free at last!

I have a dream today and this dream will become true. But when this happens the Jewish state will be called Palestine and it will be one state, a state of all its citizens.

Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born musician, writer and anti-racism campaigner. His latest jazz album, "In loving memory of America", was released on 1 March 2009 and can be purchased here.

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