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Artists Under Fire, with Lana Melman

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Lana Melman spent twenty years in Hollywood, then took on the campaign to make artists boycott Israel. Artists Under Fire is that fight, story by story.

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The Book

Cover of Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel, by Lana Melman.

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Speaker

  • Lana Melman

    Lana Melman

    Author of Artists Under Fire, and CEO of Liberate Art

    Lana Melman is an attorney, a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, and the CEO of Liberate Art. She started as an attorney for Columbia Pictures Television and went on to be an executive at CBS, Warner Bros., the Leonard Goldberg Company and Paramount. From 2011 to 2015 she was the first director of Creative Community for Peace, and she has fought the cultural boycott of Israel ever since. Her column, Hollywood Stories, runs in The Jerusalem Post Magazine.

    Artists Under Fire won the 2022 Nellie Bly Prize Blue Ribbon for nonfiction journalism and the 2023 NYC Big Book Award in Cultural and Social Issues.

Artists Under Fire: The BDS War Against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel is about the pressure put on performers to cancel their shows in Israel, and the ones who wouldn’t. Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys and Carlos Santana are all in it, and so is Roger Waters, who has led the campaign from the other side.

Lana knows that world from the inside. She was an entertainment lawyer and a studio executive, and from 2011 she ran Creative Community for Peace, working with the people around almost a thousand artists who were being pushed to boycott. We brought her to Atlanta in 2022, and she’s back to talk about the book and to take your questions. When she goes, we carry on talking about it. Stay on afterwards to schmooze. That part is never recorded.

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