PinkPantheress, Damon Albarn, Brian Eno & More Appear at Together For Palestine Benefit Concert Raising Over $2m

Brian Eno’s Together For Palestine performance took spot successful London connected Wednesday evening (Sep. 17) with aboriginal estimates indicating that the payment gig raised implicit £1.5 cardinal ($2m) and counting for Palestinian-led charities and organisations.

The all-star performance was held astatine the OVO Wembley Arena and featured a bid of performances and speeches by 150 starring artists and figures from astir the world, including Eno, Blur’s Damon Albarn, Paul Weller, PinkPantheress and Palestinian artists Elyanna and Saint Levant. The funds raised by the performance volition beryllium distributed by the pro-immigration foundation Choose Love, to organizations specified arsenic Taawon, Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestine Medical Relief Service.

Eno, alongside chap producers Khalid Abdalla, Khaled Ziada and Tracey Seaward, announced the performance successful July. He wrote, “What we are witnessing successful Gaza isn’t a mystery, and neither is it a blur of competing narratives making it ‘hard to understand’,” it work successful part. “When dozens of non-partisan organisations similar Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders picture it arsenic genocide, the motivation enactment is clear. We can’t stay silent. Which is wherefore I’m helping to organise Together for Palestine – a nighttime of music, reflection and anticipation astatine Wembley Arena.” 

On Tuesday (Sep. 16), the UN’s committee for enquiry declared that Israel had committed genocide during its ongoing subject operations successful Palestine. Since the Oct. 7 attacks, which saw violent radical Hamas execution 1,200 Israeli citizens and instrumentality 251 hostages, implicit 64,964 Palestinian citizens person been killed by Israeli attacks, according to the Hamas-run wellness ministry. Over 90% of homes successful Palestine are estimated to person been damaged oregon destroyed with the immense bulk of the colonisation displaced and requiring urgent aid. 

The concert, hosted by comedian Guz Khan, was streamed unrecorded connected YouTube. Prior to the event, Billie Eilish and member Finneas appeared alongside actors Cillian Murphy, Javier Bardem, Brian Cox, Joaquin Phoenix and much successful a abbreviated video pledging enactment for Palestine people.

The evening hosted a fig of peculiar philharmonic performances. Eno teamed up with Albarn, Weller, Nadine Shah, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and Adnan Jourban for a uncommon nationalist performance; helium performed a portion of euphony particularly composed for the event, earlier reciting Khaled Juma’s poem Oh Rascal Children of Gaza<...