[wideawake]

His jazz ensemble is named "Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House" and his last album, Exile is a jazz setting of the poems of Mahmoud Darwish, including a song entitled "Al-Quds" and a song which was originally composed by Bulgarian Jews as a song of mourning after a pogrom. He took the Bulgarian tune and renamed it "Jenin."

[Alouette]

He took the Bulgarian tune and renamed it "Jenin."

No different from Naomi Shemer who took a Basque tune and renamed it "Jerusalem of Gold." Or the composers of "Hatikvah" who ripped off the Czech composer Smetana. Or for that matter, Francis Scott Key who used a tune from an old barroom song.

Speaking of "Jerusalem of Gold" I'm reminded of how much I hate that syrupy, smarmy crappy ballad.