Amnesty Gives in to Pressure From Anti-Israel Groups

Several Anti-Israel organizations have pressured Amnesty International into withdrawing from its involvement in a concert being given by Leonard Cohen to fundraise for various other peace groups. Although I would oppose the naive kumbaya goals of the Cohen concert, nevertheless, can there be a more stark example that the true aim of these misnamed "peace" groups is most definitely not peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews, but in fact is the obliteration of Israel and the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the country?

Amnesty International caves to Israel boycotters
Leonard Cohen is planning to play a concert in Israel on September 24th. The 47,000 tickets, ranging in price from $90 to $315, sold out in a day.

Cohen turned the concert into a fundraiser for pro-peace groups. He worked together with Amnesty International to create a special fund that would hand out the proceeds to places like a peace group made up of the parents of Israelis and Palestinians killed called the Parents Circle-Family Forum, a children's health program run by the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, an organization that brings together Israeli army veterans and former Palestinian fighters and a center for special needs children in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Cohen tried to also schedule a concert in Ramallah, but this was rejected by the Palestinian Arabs.

The Israeli concert is not in Jerusalem, but in Tel Aviv. In no way can it be considered controversial to anyone who thinks that Israel has the right to exist.

However, the "peace" organizations who do not share that belief immediately started pressuring Amnesty International to withdraw its involvement in a charity that would give literally millions of dollars to groups that are dedicated to Arab-Israeli coexistence. These groups sent an open letter to Amnesty insisting that they stop all involvement with the concert. The signed groups include:

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