She started it with “Long Live the Intifada”.. Kilani strongly supports Palestine

American singer Kehlani directed her latest song, Next 2 U, to the Palestinian people and expressed her solidarity with them by raising the Palestinian flag and wearing the keffiyeh.

Kilani begins the video song with the phrase, “Long live the Intifada,” referring to the stone intifada that witnessed the Palestinians’ attack on the occupation army. Then we see Kilani standing in front of the Palestinian flag, while wearing a suit with details designed from Palestinian shawl fabric, and singing about her desire to protect those she loves. The song includes phrases such as, “They have to get over me to get close to you.”

Kilani dances regularly with a group of women in an intimate and bold way, and she wrote on her personal Instagram account: “This is my comment on Israel’s use of gay rights as a justification to incite hatred against the Palestinians and justify ethnic genocide.”

At the end of the video, Kilani included a list of children killed by the occupying army. She also sells on her own website a T-shirt bearing the name of the song that was made in Bethlehem, Palestine, with all profits going to the people of Gaza, Sudan and the Congo.