Soundtrack of the Yemeni Uprising: Jewish Music?

Protestors in Yemen's "Rose Revolution"

When's the last time you heard the words, "Crank up the Shwekey, we're gonna have ourselves a revolution!"?
It's certainly not what I would have thought to spin if I were DJ'ing the uprisings in Yemen, but apparently among the revolutionaries fighting to bring down that country's President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a song called Kaddish (video below) by the late Israeli singer Ofra Haza has been emerging as the anthem of the uprising.
Like so much of the essential news on Middle East uprising, this tidbit was bandied across Twitter this morning. In a conversation I "overheard"  (thanks to blogger Jack Zaientz, author of the Teruah Jewish Music Blog, who re-tweeted it), Canadian PR professional Maria Al-Masani reported to Senior NP Strategist Andy Carvin that the song has taken on a strong meaning for the Yemeni protestors. 

It makes a lot of sense that Ofra Haza's music would resonate with these Yemeni rebels. First of all, in a "rose revolution" led largely by a mother of three, it is fair to expect some break from the traditional, hard-core revolutionary esthetic. Also, Haza herself was the daughter of Yemeni immigrants to Israel, and many of her songs were sung in Yemeni dialect. In fact, even during her lifetime, the singer was held as a beloved source of national pride to many Yemeni Arabs. Haza's songs also frequently dealt with her own political positions which emphasized peace and unity. Horashoot (The Bridge), for example, is a traditional Yemenite wedding song that she adapted, in Yemeni Arabic, before a tour of Arab countries to symbolize the shaky bond between the two joined peoples, and that she ended in English with the hopeful overture, "We can cross the bridge together."