Purchase and stream Together4Palestine’s new single, Lullaby, by 11:59pm on Thursday 18 December to help make it Christmas Number 1

The running for this year’s Christmas number 1 single includes an option for solidarity with Palestine. The single Lullaby is a rendition of a Palestinian folk song produced by Stop the War Coalition President Brian Eno and featuring Nai Barghouti, Celeste, Amena, Dan Smith of Bastille, Leigh-Anne Pinnock of Little Mix, Mabel, the London Community Gospel Choir and many more. And it’s in the running for topping the charts.

Currently in third place, you have until 11:59pm on Thursday 18 December to buy and stream the song to help get it to Number 1. Buying and downloading the track for £1.98 counts for a lot more as the charts calculate 1 sale as equal to 600 streams – plus the money raised from sales will go towards charities supporting Palestinian children.

Links to buy and stream the song on various platforms can be found here – the first three are buying options. If you use Bandcamp, make sure to download the track after purchasing or it won’t count towards the charts.

Lullaby is beautifully made and moving track that sounds part hymn and part sombre retelling of the tragedy facing the Palestinian people, particularly children, and is moving to anyone horrified by the still ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The artwork for the tracks (7 min full version and 4 min edit) has been produced by Palestinian painter Malak Mattar. The accompanying music video directed by Lina Makoul was filmed across Palestine, including Gaza.

As the song makes its way through the charts, Israel continues to bomb Gaza, shoot children dead and withhold aid from desperate Gazans consigned to a winter in tents.

While Israel violates the sham ceasefire daily and ramps up its attacks and encroachment of the West Bank, Keir Starmer is focusing on criminalising Palestine solidarity at home to defend Britain’s right to arm and abet the genocide.

Since coming to power, his government has made a concertedly trying to drive a wedge between the organised Palestine movement and the vast majority of the public that opposes the genocide and Britain’s role in it. And in doing so, to justify increasingly authoritarian and anti-democratic measures and legislation that will have repercussions far beyond the Palestine movement.

Keir Starmer would like nothing more than for us to forget about Palestine, forget about the hunger strikers starving to death for protesting their imprisonment for over a year without trial, and forget our lives and public service being decimated to fund his war drive.

This song could be the ghost that haunts Keir Starmer’s Christmas by keeping Palestine in the national spotlight and showing him how futile his efforts to brush it under the carpet have been. It could be an antidote to the government’s intimidation tactics and help mobilise for the 31 January national demonstration.

The song has already partially succeeded in this. Brian Eno and some of the artists involved have been getting widespread mainstream press coverage, giving them airtime to discuss Palestinian culture, to humanise the Palestinian people our media uses every opportunity to dehumanise, and to make the case for active solidarity with Palestine.

So make sure you buy the track and encourage as many people as you can to do the same and help put Palestine front and centre in the mainstream.