Lionel Richie has a concert scheduled in Tel Aviv next month, and Code Pink’s effort to convince the singer to cancel it has been a “fail” and then some:

BREAKING: Simply because we started a campaign urging him to stand up for Palestinian human rights and cancel his upcoming show in Apartheid Israel, @LionelRichie blocked us! ? #LionelDontGo pic.twitter.com/JPrsOD3UwF

.@LionelRichie’s performance in Tel Aviv will serve as an endorsement of Israel’s brutal systems of military occupation and apartheid.

Demand that he stand in solidarity with his Palestinian fans and cancel his show immediately! #LionelDontGo https://t.co/8PLZKwcUsZ

— CODEPINK (@codepink) July 31, 2019