One of the things the video does not address is the fundamental ambivalence toward the Israeli state by Arab rappers in general and Israeli-Palestinian rappers like DAM in particular, leading to harsh words with Subliminal and a Tel Aviv-Lydda rap rivalry couched in explicitly nationalist terms. Given the problematics of Israeli-Palestinian citizenship, eliding the differences between Gaza/West Bank/Israeli-Palestinian rappers is perhaps not the most productive approach–the problems are not those of a ghettoized minority solely, but also that of an alternative nationalist vision, supported partly by armed resistance, a little of it carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel. That renders the interviewer’s question “Because he’s speaking Arabic? He can’t speak his language?” especially disingenuous and snarky, given the lack of context, as if police harassment on the North American model were what was taking place. (When in fact Israel Police and Border Police can be especially brutal, so fobbing it off as “Walking While Arab” OBSCURES some violent practices of the state as well.)