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Amnesty International withdraws from Leonard Cohen’s Israel concert fund

Posted on: August 19, 2009 |

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

18 August 2009

New York, NY, August 18 – Amnesty International has announced today that it will abstain from any involvement in the Leonard Cohen concert in Tel Aviv and will not be party to any fund that benefits from the concert’s proceeds. A number of media accounts had reported that Amnesty International was to manage or otherwise partner in a fund created from the proceeds of Cohen’s concert in Israel that would be used to benefit Israeli and Palestinian groups. Amnesty International’s announcement today followed an international outcry … Continue reading

Updated on August 19, 2009
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Village of Bil’in calls on Amnesty International to withdraw from Leonard Cohen concert

Posted on: August 8, 2009 |

8 August 2009
We, members of the Bil’in popular committee against the wall and settlements, have always appreciated Amnesty International’s role in the defense of human rights around the world and have recognized you as partners in our own struggle to defend our rights. We remember with great pleasure and pride your December, 2006 visit to our village to witness one of our protests. For these reasons we were surprised and deeply disturbed to learn that Amnesty International is sponsoring Leonard Cohen’s upcoming concert in Israel.
Dear Amnesty International,

We, members of the Bil’in popular committee against the wall and settlements, have always … Continue reading

Updated on August 8, 2009
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Entertaining apartheid Israel deserves no amnesty!

Posted on: July 30, 2009 |

Open Letter to Amnesty International

30 July, 2009

In May, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) called on singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen to heed the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel and avoid complicity with Israel’s violations of international law by cancelling his planned September concert in Israel, particularly in view of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza earlier this year. Sadly, according to a July 28 article in the Jerusalem Post, Amnesty International USA has agreed to cooperate with Cohen in dealing with Israel on the basis of business as usual. Amnesty International USA … Continue reading

Updated on July 30, 2009
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Leonard Cohen is not playing in Ramallah!

Posted on: July 12, 2009 |

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

12 July 2009

PACBI has been heartened by the untiring efforts of BDS activists in the US and UK in organizing demonstrations and pickets at Leonard Cohen’s performances in advance of his planned concert in Tel Aviv later this summer. The call, “don’t Play Israel!” has been heard loud and clear.

After exhausting all attempts to convince Cohen to apply his avowed humanistic principles in a morally consistent way by refusing to entertain Israeli apartheid and whitewash its crimes, we called on all supporters of a … Continue reading

Updated on July 12, 2009
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New York Activists to Singer Leonard Cohen: “Don’t Play Apartheid; Don’t Play Israel!”

Posted on: May 18, 2009 |
New York Activists to Singer Leonard Cohen: "Don't Play Apartheid; Don't Play Israel!"

Adalah-NY

17 May 2009

New York activists gathered in front of Radio City Music Hall Sunday night during a Leonard Cohen concert to call upon the singer/songwriter to cancel his scheduled September concert in Israel. The protesters sang songs, chanted, handed out leaflets to concert attendees and produced sidewalk art. The call comes in support of earlier calls by Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens and residents of the UK, and coincides with the publication of an open letter by the … Continue reading

Updated on May 18, 2009
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Anti-Israel activists urge Leonard Cohen to nix T.A. show

Posted on: May 11, 2009 |

Cnaan Liphshiz | Ha’aretz

11 May 2009

Anti-Israel activists are stepping up efforts to dissuade Leonard Cohen from performing in Israel in September.

The activists urge supporters to “apply pressure during his tour by local groups along his path,” in their most recent appeal, which was circulated on Monday in various pro-Palestinian mailing lists.

They added that letters “and various actions” might prove “instrumental in helping him take the decision to cancel his last concert.” This, they explain, is because “it is obvious the situation in Palestine and Israel is quite clear to Leonard Cohen, to judge by his song entitled Questions … Continue reading

Updated on May 11, 2009
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An open letter to Leonard Cohen

Posted on: May 11, 2009 |

An Open Letter to Leonard Cohen | British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)

Dear Leonard Cohen:

Your songs have been part of the soundtrack of our lives — like breathing, some of them. But we can’t make sense of why you’ve decided to perform in Israel in September this year.

If we understand anything about Buddhism – your practice of which is public knowledge – it’s that Buddhism advocates ‘right action’. We accept that this precept, like the injunction to ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’, is probably honoured more in the breach than the observance. But we can’t believe … Continue reading

Updated on May 18, 2009
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