Dear Iris,
I appended your signature request letter below and will forward to Israeli friends here and in Israel, I hope they'll want to add their names.
Please add my name: *XXXX XXXXX, am a Israeli living in NY.
Hoping for better days,
*XXXX
*(XXXX = עוכר
XXXXX= ישראל
עמית)
----- Original Message -----
From: Iris Hefets
To: jews who jews who
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:31
Subject: [jewswhospeakout] Cohens performance
Dear all,
after I wrote Leonards Cohen manager, that I am disappointed to hear he is performing in Israel, in which according to his words Dachau was built, I got an answer. According to it, they get many mails, supportive and not supportive and the decision is not final. In addition he mentioned the new idea of performing in Ramallah.
I wrote him that I actually intended to go to Cohen's performance in Berlin, will stand though outside with others and protest instead, in case Cohen indeed go on from Berlin to Israel. He did not like the idea...
In case you want to make your point and write the manager, Mr. Robert Kory, a mail: here is his address
rkory@rkmgment.com
all the best
iris
Dear all,
Israeli peace activists are looking for more signatures on the attached letter. We need people with Israeli citizenship, i.e. Israeli passport. If you have one and never understood, why the hell actually: here is the advantage...
The ones wish to sign please contact me:
iris.hefets@googlemail.com
thanks and sorry...
iris
AN OPEN LETTER
TO LEONARD COHEN
כאן אני משנה קצת את הסדר:
תחילה אעלה את רשימת החתימות, ואז את המכתב ששלחו ללאונרד כהן:
Sincerely,
1. Noa Abend
2. Adv. Ahmad M. Amara
3. Iris Bar
4. Yoav Barak
5. Ronnie Barkan
6. Smadar Carmon
7. Adi Dagan
8. Dr. Aim Deuelle Luski
9. Yvonne Deutsch
10. Diana Dolev
11. Shai Efrati
12. Prof. Nomi Erteschik-Shir
13. Naama Farjoun
14. Eva Ferrero
15. Racheli Gai
16. Prof. Rachel Giora
17. Angela Godfrey-Goldstein
18. Amos Gvirtz
19. Tal Haran
20. Iris Hefets
21. Ruth Hiller
22. Tikva Honig-Parnass
23. Dr. Irit Katriel
24. Gal Katz
25. Adam Keller
26. Yael Lerer
27. Yossef Lubovsky
28. Olivia Magnan
29. Ya’acov Manor
30. Eilat maoz
31. Dr. Ruchama Marton
32. Dr. Anat matar
33. Haggai Matar
34. Rela Mazali
35. Dorothy Naor
36. Dr. David Nir
37. Dr. Nurit Peled
38. Leiser Peles
39. Jonathan Pollak
40. Yonatan Shapira
41. Dr. Kobi Snitz
42. Kerstin Sodergren
43. Amir Terkel
44. Adi Winter
45. Beate Zilversmidt
http://www.auphr.org/index.php?opti...id=54&Itemid=84
והמכתב:
Dear Leonard Cohen,
We are Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens, who hold your poetry and music in high esteem, and it is because of this respect for your artistic contributions and your moral Buddhist commitment to "save all beings" that we hope that our appeal to you to cancel your planned performance in Israel will not fall on deaf ears.
Israel is facing one of its most immoral historical moments. Its ruthless, criminal bashing of the Palestinians has met with little international criticism or curbing. The silence of most of the world’s governments continues to embolden successive Israeli governments to commit more violent acts. Israel has violated numerous international laws, but so far for Israeli Jews life in Israel goes on as if nothing happened. Indeed, your people, Cohen, have built “a new Dachau, And call it love, Security, Jewish culture”, as you have so perceptively put it yourself in ‘Questions for Shomrim’,1 but only a few voices have been raised against these injustices.
It is left for us, citizens of the world, to condemn Israeli atrocities and crimes against humanity. Dissociating ourselves from Israel’s brutal policies is the only non-violent way now to avoid becoming complicit in the killing, the wounding and the maiming, and the robbing of Palestinians. Faced with all this and more, Palestinians are calling on all people to support their struggle for their basic rights. Unfortunately, recognizing Palestinian rights will require a fundamental shift in Israeli society. We suspect that this change will be achieved only via external pressure. The least that one can do in such a situation is not act as if it is business as usual. We see our society becoming more and more calloused and racist and given your longstanding, vocal commitment to justice, we cannot envision you cooperating with continued Israeli defiance of justice and morality; we cannot envision you playing a part in the Israeli charade of self-righteousness. We appeal to you to add your voice to those brave people the world over who boycott Israel. We urge you to cancel your planned performance in Israel.
Sincerely,
ראשי
צ'אט
04-05-2009, 17:15
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