Auckland – New Zealand BDS Activists Ordered To Pay Damages Over Lorde Cancellation Will Donate To Gaza Charity Instead

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    Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab had appealed to Lorde in an open letter to "join the artistic boycott of Israel".Auckland – Two New Zealand women ordered by an Israeli court to pay over $12,000 in damages for allegedly helping persuade pop singer Lorde to cancel her concert said they will donate the money to a Gaza charity.

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    The lawsuit had been filed by three teen-age Israeli ticket holders, who claimed the cancellation had caused emotional distress.

    Justine Sachs and Nadia Abu-Shanab had appealed to the singer in an open letter to “join the artistic boycott of Israel” and cancel her performance, which was scheduled to take place earlier this year. Lorde acknowledged the letter and canceled her show days later in December.

    In response to the ruling, Sachs and Abu-Shanab wrote Friday on thespinoff.co.nz that “The cancellation of her concert can’t be reduced to our letter. We’re just one tiny part of a growing and vibrant movement, and while we’re proud to play our part, credit goes to Lorde for having the human decency to take a stand. It also goes to every ordinary person around the world who has taken up the BDS call, and to the people of Palestine who persevere in their struggle for equality and justice.”

    They called the Israeli court ruling “a stunt of which the sole intention is to intimidate Israel’s critics.”

    “We’ve contacted the relevant people in our government in the hope they can make it clear that New Zealand will not stand by and allow Israel to attempt to bully its citizens,” they also wrote.

    They said that instead of paying the court award, that they would start a crowdfunding campaign to raise at least $12,000 for The Gaza Mental Health Foundation, to assist Palestinian families in Gaza.


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    adar29
    adar29
    5 years ago

    The supposedly Jewish butch should get the 12k and pay for her own mental health treatment. Obviously something is wronginside that brain

    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    5 years ago

    Gaze charities=funding terrorists.

    These machasheifas are useful idiots tot he Palinazis.

    cbdds
    cbdds
    5 years ago

    A careful read of the post indicates that they plan to get the money donated by others, as a go find me project.

    honestbroker
    honestbroker
    5 years ago

    Donate to Gaza Mental health Foundation?!?
    That money will follow all the other money that is donated by the suckers in the west. Directly into the Pockets of Mahmmud Abbas and his cronies.
    Perhaps they should avail themselves of the mental heath services in New Zealand. Based on their photos,looks like they can use it, Especially the porker Justine Sachs.

    Vvvvv
    Vvvvv
    5 years ago

    Gaza charity =oxymoron. More like Gaza terror funding org.