Cartoonist Ismail Al-Bozom was arrested because of his drawings and Facebook posts, in which he criticised the Hamas government.

» Read on issuu.com Targeting the Arts Documenting incidents of censorship has never been enough. From the very beginning Freemuse has attempted to put censorship of music and arts into a larger context. In 2015 we introduced INSIGHT – a series of articles providing readers with analytical stories on censorship of …

Rappers Fadi and Bess speak about freedom of expression in Palestine   Freemuse interview with two members of the hip-hop group Darg Team from Gaza Town — about their experiences with censorship because they use their music to communicate critical and political messages, and about the negative image hip-hop has …

Religious protesters are demanding the removal of an artwork depicting a crucified Ronald McDonald at the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel.

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is appealing her conviction for "inciting violence" after serving five months in an Israeli jail.

Kamilya Jubran is born in Akka in Israel to Palestinian parents who are from a northern Palestinian village in Al-Jaleel. From 1982 to 2002, Kamilya was lead song performer of the orchestra Sabreen which was a voice of resistance for the Palestinians. In 2002 she began touring with her solo show.   …

On 20 September, poet Dareen Tatour was released from prison after serving several years in detention and house arrest over one of her poems.

Israel’s public broadcaster has apologised to listeners after playing part of an opera by anti-Semitic German composer Richard Wagner.

On 31 July 2018, Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was sentenced to five months in prison on charges of inciting terrorism over a poem and online posts.

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is set be sentenced on 31 May after an Israeli court convicted her of supporting a terrorist organisation.