The Palestinian group Shatat was founded in Vienna and bears a name that reflects Palestinian history. “Shatat” means diaspora and recalls the Palestinian experience of how citizens became refugees, far from home, yet never separated from it in their hearts. Through their singing, the band wants to show that Palestinians are a people with a rich cultural heritage, a vibrant tradition, and a strong identity – an identity they will not allow to be taken from them.

The group Shatat consists of 18 members, each of whom carries within them the memories and stories of earlier generations. Through music, Shatat preserves Palestinian heritage, continues to tell the story of Palestine, and keeps alive the love for the homeland from which they were expelled.

She uses “Circle of Light” to make a statement of resistance. Circles of light are places of hope, places of solidarity, but above all also places of resistance. Resistance against the people who try to destroy them. Against the people who see this world as a playground for their whims, where they can do whatever they want while others suffer as a result. In times when politicians try to divide us, “Circle of Light” is a call to stand together and appreciate our differences instead of turning us against one another.

Nina Maleika has shared stages with Udo Lindenberg, Jan Delay, Clueso, and Stefan Raab, lent her voice to many renowned major projects, and received commissions from pop icon Cher, Wetten Dass, and MTV Unplugged. In Taiwan, she sang with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra and presents international music festivals.

When political conditions in Germany began to change in March 2020, when the corridor of acceptable opinion narrowed in a threatening and dramatic way, and censorship and cancel culture deprived artists of their livelihoods, Nina had to experience what it means to exchange the red carpets of the country for the label “political activist.”

Since 2023, Nina has been active with all her heart and mainly for Palestine, and has made a name for herself through her powerful protest actions as an international activist and organizer of various cultural Palestine events. On the compilation album Voices for Gaza, released in 2025, she appears alongside artists such as Dieter Hallervorden and Michael Barenboim.

Disabled drag performers who, in addition to the usual serving of cunt, want to put a special focus on disability and accessibility. We see disability as a spectrum and not as a fixed definition. During the Song Protest, they will put a specific focus on the challenges arising from disabilities and war injuries in the occupied territory of Palestine.  

Maika Makovski is a multi-talented force in the music world—an electrifying singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer known for her raw intensity and genre-defying sound for the past twenty years. Blending indie rock, blues, and avant-garde influences, her music is both cinematic and visceral, filled with haunting melodies and bold, poetic lyricism. Whether commanding the stage with her powerful presence or crafting deeply immersive studio recordings, Maika’s artistry is fearless, innovative, and deeply authentic. Maika Makovski is celebrating twenty years of musical career exploring territories where rock, poetry, and emotion converge in a single soundscape.

Leftovers is an alternative rock/grunge band from Vienna founded in 2019. The four-piece group combines punk, grunge, and indie rock elements with German lyrics. They became especially known for their energetic live shows and albums such as Krach (2022) and Es kann sein, dass alles endet (2024), which quickly established them as a notable name in the Austrian music scene.

With her rebellious, socially conscious songs, Célia Mara has shattered the glass ceiling of the global jazz scene. With her band, she has performed on major stages, appearing in subversive clubs as well as at major festivals—from New York to Moscow, across Europe, Tunisia, and Vietnam. She has captivated music critics worldwide, and her albums have spent weeks on the European world music charts.

The singer-songwriter uses her powerful voice to advocate for a better world; her danceable grooves instill vitality and a joy in resistance. Just like “her” president, Brazil’s Lula da Silva, she stands shoulder to shoulder with Palestine.

Ronnie Barkan is a past member of Anarchists Against the Wall and Palestine Action. On Nakba Day 2022, he took part in a direct action against the UK headquarters of Israel-based Elbit Systems. In September 2025, the site was shut down. Elbit Systems is Israel’s number one arms manufacturer and currently has boots on the ground in Gaza helping to carry out the genocide.

Barkan challenges the very nature of the Zionist race-state and the discourse of lies that exists throughout mainstream and progressive media, a discourse whose sole purpose is to create legitimacy for something that is fundamentally illegitimate.

While insisting on taking inspiration from the German dissidents of The White Rose and linking their legacy of opposition to Nazism with present-day direct action in opposition to Zionism, he is routinely silenced, harassed, and detained by German authorities.

Co-founder of the initiative ‘Not in our Name’ founded by Jews in Vienna and the jewish anti-zionist initiative.

He is committed to fighting racism, chauvinism and oppression. ‘Everyone can point out injustices and take a stand against exclusion.’ The solidarity of the Global South, especially from Africa, demonstrates the strength of resistance against genocide and apartheid.

Over the past twelve years, she has traveled to numerous war-torn and crisis-stricken regions, most recently to Gaza on two occasions.
Glatz Brubakk powerfully conveys the psychological consequences of the genocide in Gaza, particularly on children and adolescents. But she also shows that helping makes a difference. By bringing us very close to the children and adults she encounters, she reveals where joy and strength can be found despite extreme hardships. She is a passionate advocate for standing up for others and lives by the motto: “Together, we can make the impossible possible!”
She has received numerous awards for her literary work and her commitment to children caught in war and displacement.

For over 20 years, Lidón Soriano has combined her teaching, clinical, and research work with her humanitarian efforts. She has collaborated with a health NGO in Palestine for more than 20 years and has coordinated 17 brigades throughout historic Palestine.

Lidón Soriano has extensive knowledge of the situation in Palestine, the origins of the conflict, its evolution, and the realities on the ground.

She is a co-founder of the Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine at the Spanish State level (RESCOP) and its first coordinator in 2006. She has taught the module on the “Arab-Israeli Conflict” in the Master’s Program in International Cooperation at Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid. For many years, she has also dedicated herself altruistically to sharing what she has learned and experienced during her time in the region in various forums throughout Spain, primarily through conferences, seminars, and talks at universities, foundations, theaters, civic, social, and cultural centers, schools, and many other venues.

She is currently a spokesperson for RESCOP, Yala Nafarroa con Palestina, and the Platform for the Sports Boycott of Israel, from which actions were coordinated during the Vuelta a España cycling race from Turin to Madrid and from which actions against the presence of Israeli representatives in other sports such as basketball, softball, climbing, soccer, etc. continue to be coordinated.

In 2025, she launched the “Txupinazo” that kicked off the San Fermín festival, images that went viral worldwide.

She taught for many years at Birzeit University in Palestine and conducts research on Palestinian nationalism, political movements in the Arab world, and human rights. She is the author of several important publications on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Her late husband, Mustafa al-Kurd, was an important voice of Palestine—a Palestinian singer-songwriter and chansonnier from Jerusalem who drew on many musical traditions to shape the Palestinian political song and a new style of contemporary chansons and music. He participated in the Contr’Eurovision in Brussels in 1988, when Israel was invited to Eurovision for the first time.

Helga Baumgarten will bring a song from that era and of the resistance.

Rafael is an intersectional activist who creates journalistic content on social media to fight against all forms of oppression, discrimination, capitalism, and patriarchy. He is also the media lead for the Austrian delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla and is participating for the second time in this civilian, nonviolent aid mission, which aims to break the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.