"While solidarity has been steadily growing, the language of hip-hop has
served as a bridge between communities. Hip-hop has grown immensely in
Palestine among marginalized youth on both sides of the "Green Line,"
while honoring the pioneers and grassroots beginnings of the genre. Like
the kids who founded hip-hop in the South Bronx, whose neighborhoods
were destroyed by gentrification, completely isolated from resources,
abandoned by the government yet scrutinized by law enforcement,
Palestinian rappers express the same resistance. They utilize hip-hop to
promote community, self-expression and to protest environmental
violence and second-class citizenship."
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