Posted on 08/07/2019 11:40:20 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Music icon Lionel Richie snubbed the women’s anti-war group Code Pink after the organization, which is active in the anti-Israel boycott campaign, launched a petition urging the singer to cancel his upcoming show in Israel.
CodePink: Women for Peace penned an open letter claiming that Richie’s scheduled Sept. 12 concert in Tel Aviv, as part of his “Hello” tour, “will act as an endorsement of Israel’s brutal systems of military occupation and apartheid,” and asked the artist, “Please act now for freedom, dignity, and equality for all in Israel/Palestine. Please cancel your concert in Israel.”
Richie blocked CodePink’s Twitter account on Wednesday.
Not long afterwards, CodePink’s national co-director, Ariel Gold, attacked the singer, saying, “don’t be such a snowflake. You closing your eyes to what is happening to Palestinians won’t stop it from happening or you from being complicit if you perform in Israel.”
The September show will be Richie’s first performance in Israel. The “Hello” singer and songwriter has been a longtime supporter of Israel. In 2013, he entertained guests at a fundraiser in Los Angeles for the Friends of the IDF, according to The Jerusalem Post.
This is not the first time that CodePink has launched a campaign aimed at convincing artists to cancel their concerts in Israel. The group attempted to do the same with pop icon Jennifer Lopez, but to no avail; she performed on Thursday night in Tel Aviv to extremely supportive crowds.
Excellent.
“Hello” is the creepiest video ever. I never realized it as a kid. He stalks a blind chick. Follows her, almost touches her hair, and crank calls her...
Lionel knows what side his bread is buttered on. The IAW/BDS-supporting douchebags aren’t the ones buying his music, and attending his concerts, after all. :P
The Mother of all Snowflakes, Ariel (Really? Like the Mermaid?) Gold calling Lionel Richie a snowflake. What a ditz. Don’t play the Pinkies’ game, Lionel. Do what is right.
Lol - read that as “snubs pro-Bush Derangement Syndrome” group at first and couldn’t figure out what that meant at first!
Need to update my lexicon for the Boycott Divestment stuff
Thank you for the trains...... Oh,not those? Have an awesome concert sir.
Bush Derangement Syndrome, Boycott Divest Sanction, good catch! Like Bureau of Land Mgmt, Black Lives Matter. Another interesting coinkydink.
<< CodePink’s national co-director, Ariel Gold, attacked the singer, saying, “don’t be such a snowflake.” >>
Says the co-director of Snowflake Inc.
It is interesting that Richie is very popular in the Arab world.
will it last all night long?
I love it when snowflake lefties are so triggered by being called snowflakes that they try to turn it around and use the phrase against us, saying stuff like "if you call people a snowflake, YOU'RE the snowflake!" and just don't get that it makes them look even more like a snowflake.
Lionel Ritchie ain’t been black since The Commadores - Chris Tucker
Bravo Lionel Richie!
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