More than 600 artists, musicians and music industry workers have signed an open letter calling on Live Nation Entertainment to sever ties with its Israeli operations, as part of the global “Musicians for Palestine” campaign.
The letter urges the world’s largest concert promoter to drop Live Nation Israel and to adopt policies ensuring that its programming and partnerships are “not complicit in oppression anywhere,” according to the campaign’s organizers.
“As musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers, and workers, we refuse to be silent as apartheid Israel continues its genocidal oppression against the Indigenous Palestinian people,” the letter states. “We stand firm in principled solidarity with their struggle for freedom, justice and equality, and we insist on meaningful action to hold the perpetrators of injustice to account.”
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The signatories argue that Live Nation’s continued presence in Israel represents a broader failure within the music industry to confront what they describe as complicity in human rights abuses.
“We know that true solidarity starts with confronting complicity,” the letter continues. “Parts of our industry have too often failed to stand up for Palestinian liberation. We demand that this moral failure come to a decisive end.”
Signatories include Massive Attack, Brian Eno, and Caribou (Dan Snaith).
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The campaign is part of a growing wave of activism within the entertainment industry that has sought to pressure companies, promoters and cultural institutions to reassess their business relationships in Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Similar calls have previously been directed at artists touring in the region, festival organizers and multinational entertainment firms.
Live Nation Entertainment, which operates concerts, festivals and ticketing platforms across more than 40 countries, has not publicly responded to the letter as of publication.
The Musicians for Palestine campaign says it will continue organizing industry workers and artists to push for accountability and policy changes, framing the effort as a moral obligation rather than a political stance.
“We speak out together for life, dignity, and the end of impunity,” the letter concludes.
Read the full letter and list of signatories here.
