Tadhamon Singers were formed in 2018. We are a group of women who sing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. In 2022 we toured the West Bank and Nazareth, singing in refugee camps, cultural centres, streets and cafes, singing with Palestinians and making lasting connections.

As we travelled, Palestinians kept asking us one thing: “please share our story”.

We remain committed to supporting the struggle for justice and equality for Palestine by engaging in activism in the UK against the injustices of the Israeli Apartheid regime.    We do this through performances, song workshops, solidarity actions, small events, online talks and sharing our blog from the trip.  We were early members of the Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. Sign up to the Coalition’s newsletter here

Our Latest Actions

More than 150 people turned out on a cold February evening to attend our latest performance of ‘We Stand With You’.  The audience listened intently as we gave some of the latest news of people we met on our visit to the West Bank. We updated our audience on the campaigns we had attended during 2023 such as protests against Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit and highlighting the involvement of Barclays Bank who financially support companies like Elbit. 

Locally there has been a surge of activity in visiting shops and supermarkets and asking them not to stock Israeli dates grown on Palestinian land in the Jordan valley and also CocaCola which is produced in a factory in one of the oldest and largest colonies/settlements in the West Bank. We sang songs which we had sung at all of these protests and events. 

Five of the songs we sang this evening had been written by Janet Wood, our amazing Choir Director. There was a special moment towards the end of the performance as we were singing the penultimate song, ‘I Stand With You’, when the audience themselves stood up, en masse, in solidarity. We sing this song from our hearts to the hearts of Palestinians everywhere but currently we are thinking so much of all the people in Gaza whose bodies are succumbing to the diseases which have begun circulating, emaciated from hunger and with nowhere to shelter.  Singing it is always a challenge but this was so unexpected that we almost stopped singing. By the time we had sung our final song, ‘Kuluna Ghaza’ (We are all Gaza) we were wiping away a tear or two. 

Following the performance everyone tucked in to the delicious Palestinian food cooked by Musheir El Farra, Chair of Sheffield PSC and from Khan Younis in Gaza. Thanks to the generosity of our audience more than £2500 was raised to send to the Emergency Relief Fund being administered by Sheffield PSC and run by volunteers on the ground around Khan Younis.

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Singing for Palestine Workshop

Saturday 3rd February

On 3^rd February, fifty enthusiastic singers gathered in Sheffield, to learn songs of solidarity for Palestine, in a workshop hosted jointly by Tadhamon Singers and Sheffield Socialist Choir. The workshop was led by our musical director, Janet Wood, and included a range of songs for street protests and boycott actions, written by a number of activist song-writers from around the country. Two new songs written by Janet, hot off the press, for the Coca Cola boycott,  had their world premier. 

After the workshop we marched down the road with our flags and banners and  joined a noisy demonstration outside Waitrose, who are notorious for stocking Israeli dates and other Israeli produce. Many of the singers slipped inside the shop, and put a number of the songs we had just learned to good use, regaling customers and staff with the importance of buying Palestinian. It has to be said that some of the staff didn’t seem totally entertained and our way round the shop was blocked. 

After emerging and doing some more singing with the demo outside, we marched round to Aldi where we repeated the process both inside and outside the store. Janet’s new song, CokeBuster, based on the Ghostbusters song, went down a storm and many customers and staff were smiling. 

♫ “We want to express our gratitude and appreciation of the event organised on Saturday. We loved it! Thank you! 4 singers from Nottingham Clarion Choir”.”

We feel that singing adds so much energy, emotion and humour to our actions, and we would be delighted to share the songs with any other groups who would like to use them. Get in touch via our contact form

Supporting the Justice Now Camp outside Sheffield Town Hall

January 2024