Tag: Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen is not playing in Ramallah!
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…
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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…
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Anti-Israel activists urge Leonard Cohen to nix T.A. show
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…