Amnesty International Withdraws from Leonard Cohen’s Israel Concert Fund
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 over the human rights organization’s reported involvement in the Leonard Cohen concert fund, and an earlier international call for Cohen to boycott apartheid Israel.
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<span style=""><span style=" font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style=""><span style="">Omar Barghouti from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) commented, “We welcome Amnesty International’s withdrawal from this ill-conceived project which is clearly intended to whitewash<span> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span><span style=""><span style="">Israel</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span><span style=""><span style="">’s violations of international law and human rights. By abandoning the Leonard Cohen project in Tel Aviv, Amnesty International has dealt Cohen and his public relations team a severe blow, denying them the cover of the organization’s prestige and respectability.”</span></span></span></span></span></span>
ReplyDeleteGood for them. And good on Oxfam too for severing its ties to AHAVA.
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