Bergsonist specializes in time-based media. According to her website she utilizes “acousmatic music, sound art, musique concrète, and experimental traditions, she transforms and abstracts these materials using granular synthesis, spectral processing, and real-time electronic techniques, blurring the origins of sound while creating dynamic dialogues between sound, visuals, and perception.”
ب , the second letter of the Arabic alphabet, features a deep and political tracklist within, containing titles such as “Deadly Police Shooting Sparks Anger in Crown Heights” (this track has since been removed from the release page), “U.S. Federal Funds”, and ending with the sixth track “Protect the Human Rights of Palestinian Children”.
This 8 minute 2 second long track slowly churns a propulsive drum beat in between sparse synth pads— like a steady protest chant, repeated, needed to be said and heard. The track picks up with layers of synth calling out. The drums quiet for a moment, and then return with more intensity. The message must be heard. Dreamy synth notes fill in the space around the drums, and the track beckons the listener’s ear with its one simple, yet urgent request.
The messaging is salient. “Protect the human rights of Palestinian Children.” The track’s focus on the rights of children is striking, but what’s more is the way it underscores the message further by utilizing the word “human” in front of rights. The necessity of stating that Palestinian children have rights proves to not be enough; it clearly states “human rights,” further humanizing Palestinian children. Additionally, this underscores the rights afforded to children under international legal frameworks. The fact that any of this needs to be stated is indicative of a deeply troubling and larger issue altogether of the dehumanization of Palestinian children.
Palestinian Children and Human Rights
In 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, outlining a common standard of living across nations for all peoples. The 30 articles clarify a comprehensive set of human rights, of which many have been violated for the Palestinian people, including Palestinian children.
The human rights of Palestinian children includes access to food, a fair trial, quality education, housing, ability to travel, environmental justice, healthcare and so much more.
Palestinian Children, Forced Starvation, and Access to Care
While there are many ways in which Palestinian children’s rights are violated, the current forced starvation is of particular and striking alarm. In May 2025, the United Nations humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, warned that 14,000 babies in Gaza could die without aid, during an interview with BBC. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations released a June 2025 press briefing titled “Gaza: Palestinians seeking food continue to be killed by Israeli military,” which outlines that “Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food.”
Amnesty International further details the devastating impact on children in their July 2025 report “Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians,” which outlines a denial of medical services for those being starved “The vast majority of children suffering from malnutrition, however, cannot reach any hospital due to access challenges posed by displacement orders and heavy bombardment and ongoing military operations”.
Palestinian Children and The Right to a Fair Trial:
Palestinian children’s rights have for decades been violated by the occupation, perhaps most embodied by the Israeli military prison regime. In the May 2023 fact sheet on Palestinian Child Detainees by Defense for Children International - Palestine, it explains how Palestinian children in the West Bank must face the Israel military detention system (following the aftermath of the Six Day War in 1967). In contrast, Jewish settlers in the West Bank are subject to the Israeli Civilian legal framework, showcasing that Israel is operating two separate legal systems in the same territory. Child detainees, some under the age of 15, are also held in what’s called “administrative detention”— incarceration without trial. Unaware of their reason for detention, children do not have access to an adult or lawyer, and are not given a means of refuting allegations or defending themselves. Their detention is often repeatedly and indefinitely extended.
Israel is the only country in the world that automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts per year prior to 2023, with a record number of Palestinians detained since then.
In the March 2018 publication by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, called “Minors in Jeopardy: Violation of the Rights of Palestinian Minors by Israel’s Military Courts” details how 100s of Palestinian minors are picked up, handcuffed, blindfolded and transported for interrogation, and often subjected to violence en route. They do not have access to an adult or lawyer to consult with before interrogation. “The facts and figures all demonstrate that minors’ rights are still being regularly and systematically violated.”
Palestinian Children and The Right To Life
Palestinians, including children, are being subject to death, violence and injury. According to the Gaza Tracker posted by Al Jazeera (as of Oct 2, 2025), they have confirmed 66,225 people killed with at-least 19,424 being children, and atleast 147 children killed due to starvation with 168,938 people injured.
To conceptualize this further, the Gaza Ministry of Health released a 649-page document listing Palestinians killed between October 7th, 2023 and August 31st, 2024. At the time of publishing, there were confirmed 34,344 Palestinians killed, which has almost now doubled. “The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age. Gaza’s population is youthful, and the register underlines the high toll of Israeli attacks on Palestinian children. More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215.”
From 2018 to 2023 to Now
While this track was incredibly important and timely in 2018, it has unfortunately grown increasingly relevant.
Re-released in 2023 as part of an EP clearly stating “ceasefire now”, Bergsonist continues to enshrine their sonic transmissions with a message calling attention to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. The other two tracks released include “Israeli-Palestinian “conflict” and “Gaza Border Violence”.
Follow the sonic call of Bergsonist for the sake of humanity: Protect the Human Rights of Palestinian Children!
As her bio explains, Bergsonist is “informed by Deleuze’s interpretation of Bergson, [and] uses intuition to explore complex questions of post-colonial identity, techno-futurism and the psychological effects of virtuality on contemporary society.
Her performances blur the line between reality and virtuality, envisioning speculative futures while confronting the tensions of the present.”