Greetings!

Liberate Art would like to thank everyone involved for making the FIRST EVER anti-BDS ARTIST PANEL a smashing success!

Our deepest appreciation and respect to the panelists from across the entertainment field who spoke out against the anti-Israel cultural boycott campaign on October 29 and to Israeli Consul General , Sam Grundwerg for his inspiring opening remarks .

Liberate Art produced this groundbreaking event for Israel Bonds and Wilshire Boulevard Temple (WBT) on October 29 to educate a broad audience about the inner workings and danger of the cultural boycott campaign and stress the importance of helping to keep Israel strong by investing in Israel Bonds.

Our panelists included musicians Alan Parsons and Guy Erez , actor Mark Pellegrino , iconic writer/director David Zucker, and entertainment attorney, Ken Hertz. As the CEO of Liberate Art, I was honored to be the moderator . 

See event PHOTOS and QUOTES below
Many thanks to the crowd in attendance as well as almost one thousand people who chose to listen and learn online. ( CLICK HERE to see the full event)
The story was covered in print ( Jerusalem Post ), on radio ( Israel Public Broadcasting-KAN), television (i24), online (JewTube ) and on social media (Facebook).

A million thanks to our friends for bringing attention to this event and helping to make it a grand slam including CareerUp, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting (CAMERA), The Israel Group, IsraellyCool, The Jewish Journal, Hen Mazzig, and David Guccione and many more. A very special thank you to my partners Esti Duenyas at Israel Bonds and Rabbi Susan Nanus at WBT.
Alan Parsons, musician/producer
11 Grammy nominations, former Pink Floyd engineer
To other artists: “It’s a minority conspiracy. It has no foundation, so please ignore it.”

“It is an appeal for a boycott, not a boycott. As long as it is an appeal, it can be rejected.”
Mark Pellegrino, TV & film star
The Big Lebowski, Lost, Dexter, Supernatural
"Combating the false charges against Israel is more challenging because the explanation requires a narrative. An abstract thought. BDS speaks in sound bites and capitalizes on visual media to tell their story."
Guy Erez, Israeli musician
Alan Parsons Project bassist
" BDS is not opening a discussion. They are just shooting us down. They are saying Israel is apartheid and it’s not. They’re painting us all as bad. Let them open a conversation."
More excerpts below
Reframe the debate • Educate • Raise Awareness • Empower  
Entertainment Community  •  Students  • Religious Institutions • Community Groups • Radio & TV interviews

Celebrity Outreach  •  Hollywood Focused Promotion
Ken Hertz, entertainment attorney
(Will Smith, Gwen Stefani, The Black-eyed Peas, Keith Richards)
"To the extent that people are not boycotting, the campaign is being ignored. It is not being ignored to the extent that it is noisy and loud. We live in a world of rumor and innuendo and gossip."
David Zucker, filmmaker
Airplane!, Naked Gun, Scaring Movies
"I am r ecently back from a trip to Israel to help raise money for victims of terror."
Sam Grundwerg Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles
“I would like to thank Lana Melman and Liberate Art for everything you do to counter the attempt at a cultural boycott of Israel.”
#Liberate Art from BDS
Warm regards,
Lana Melman
CEO, Liberate Art
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