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Background story about Leviev

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/0 ... 493942.php

New Yorkers & Palestinians call on Dubai to boycott Leviev jewelry
by Adalah-NY
Saturday Apr 19th, 2008 12:44 PM
Israeli settlement mogul Lev Leviev is opening two jewelry stores this summer in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. A NYC-based rights group joins Palestinian villages and civil society in asking the government and the people of the UAE to stop Leviev from doing business in Dubai.
New York, NY, April 18 - New York human rights activists, and
representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil'in and
Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab
Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and
diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies' construction of
Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent media reports,
Leviev is opening jewelry stores in Dubai during 2008.

"We call on the government and people of the United Arab Emirates to
join the growing international campaign to boycott Lev Leviev's
companies due to their construction of Israeli colonial settlements,
and their human rights violations in Angola," declared Daniel
Lang-Levitsky of Jews Against the Occupation-NYC. "A major Israeli
violator of Palestinian rights and international law should not be
opening jewelry stores in Dubai," added Adalah-NY spokesperson Issa
Ayoub. Adalah-NY has organized eight boycott protests outside
Leviev's new Madison Avenue jewelry store over the last five months.

In the last few days, media have reported that Lev Leviev Diamonds
will open two stores in Dubai this year. In the fourth quarter of
2008, construction will begin on a store to be located in the Burj
Dubai Mall. The second will open in September in the new Atlantis
Hotel on Jumeirah Palm Island. Leviev has already opened one store in
Dubai in March, 2008 in the lobby of Al-Qasr Hotel on Madinat
Jumeirah.

Leviev's company Leader is building the settlement of Zufim on the
land of the West Bank village of Jayyous. The company Danya Cebus, a
subsidiary of Leviev's Africa-Israel, has also built Israeli
settlements on the land of the village of Bil'in, and has built homes
in Maale Adumim and Har Homa on Jabal Abu Ghneim, encircling and
cutting off East Jerusalem from the West Bank. Israel is building its
wall to the east of all these settlements, with the aim of annexing
them to Israel. Leviev also donates to the Land Redemption Fund, an
Israeli settler organization which has used deceit and strong-arm
tactics to secure Israeli-occupied Palestinian land for settlements
in villages like Bil'in and Jayyous.

Israeli settlements directly violate international law according to
the UN, all major human rights organizations and the International
Court of Justice's 2004 advisory opinion on Israel's wall. The IJC's
opinion also said that states are responsible for ensuring that
Israel complies with international law.

Abdullah Abu-Rahme from Bil'in and Sharif Omar from Jayyous
explained, "Leviev's companies are destroying the olive groves and
farms that have sustained our villages for centuries, and are
profiting from human rights abuses." The growing international
movement to boycott Israel has developed in response to the 2005
Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) call by 171
Palestinian civil society organizations (http://www.bds-palestine.net)
asking for "people of conscience all over the world to impose broad
boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar
to those applied to" apartheid South Africa in order to end "Israel's
persistent violations of international law," and "colonial and
discriminatory policies."

In Angola, Leviev works closely with the repressive Dos Santos regime
to mine and sell the country's diamonds, and he employs the private
security firm K&P Mineira, which has been accused of torturing,
sexually abusing and even murdering Angolans. According to the
non-profit watchdog group Partnership Africa Canada, around 10% of
the diamonds sold from Angola, including some of Leviev's, fail to
comply with the Kimberley Process which was created to end the trade
in "blood diamonds."

http://www.gulfnews.com/Nation/Dubai_Fi ... 67229.html

Call to boycott Israeli jeweller
By Abbas Al Lawati, Staff Reporter
Published: December 14, 2008, 23:18
 

Dubai: Activists campaigning against Israeli diamond mogul Lev Leviev urged Dubai residents to boycott the jeweller during the screening of a documentary film on activist hip hop at the Dubai Film Festival on Friday.

Forty T-shirts and one hundred letters from the West Bank town of Jayyous were distributed to the audience at the screening of Slingshot Hip Hop, a documentary about Palestinian rappers in Israel by Arab American filmmaker Jackie Salloum.

Leviev's companies build Jewish-only colonies in the occupied West Bank, including the village of Jayyous. Leviev also owns a self-titled diamond label that has been selling in Dubai for almost a year.

Salloum, who has been to Jayyous, described the situation there are dire, saying that the "security barrier" and colonies being built by Israel there have robbed its residents of their livelihoods.

Online campaign

The distributed T-shirts called on Dubai residents to boycott Leviev as well as Levant Jewellery, owned by Leviev's local agent, Palestinian-Moroccan Arif Bin Khadra.

Meanwhile, activists campaigning against Leviev's activities have set up a Facebook group that is calling for a boycott of all Dubai venues that host stores selling Leviev diamonds.

The group has gained almost 400 members in less than two weeks since its launch, according to group administrator Jabbar, a UAE-based Palestinian rapper.

Levant stores exist in the Atlantis, Al Qasr and Mina Al Salaam hotels. Another branch is planned for the Dubai Mall.

"It's important for people to be aware of where their money is going. Especially if it is happening so close to home," said Jabbar.

New York based Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah-NY), has led the international campaign against Leviev.

The group has recently had success in persuading Hollywood celebrities to distance themselves from Leviev.

So far, Sex and the City star Kirsten Davis, Full House star Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as Felicity Huffman and Melissa George have reportedly asked Leviev to stop using their names to promote the diamonds.

Pictures of a number of other celebrities such as Salma Hayek, Sharon Stone and Whitney Houston remain on the Leviev website.

 

New York Human Rights Carolers Renew Call for Boycott of Leviev        
Musical Holiday Protest Highlights Boycott Campaign Achievements in Last Year

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

December 20, New York, NY – Thirty human rights carolers braved the cold and ice today to serenade Manhattan's holiday shoppers with a call, for the second year, to boycott the jewelry store and companies of Israeli settlement-builder and diamond mogul Lev Leviev. Leviev's Madison Avenue store has been the site of 12 protests since it opened in mid-November, 2007, and protests against his businesses have spread to London, Dubai and the West Bank villages where he is building settlements. Additionally, during the past year UNICEF and Oxfam have renounced Leviev, major Hollywood stars have distanced themselves from him, and the governments of United Kingdom and Dubai are under pressure to boycott Leviev's businesses.

The carolers, from the New York-based human rights coalition Adalah-NY and other groups, were accompanied in singing and chanting by a percussion section from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. Hundreds of copies of the comic "Who is Lev Leviev?" were given to passersby, many of whom stopped to hear the parody holiday songs while carrying shopping bags from Madison Avenue's most exclusive shops.

The most vigorously sung of today's eleven parody holiday carols included the following refrain, to the tune of "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel:"

Oh, boycott, boycott, boycott, don't buy Leviev today;
Funds crimes with all those profits, who needs diamonds anyway.

The carolers noted that their musical wish for Leviev, first expressed a year ago during holiday caroling, had been granted, as they again sang to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas:"

We wish you a loss of business, we wish you a loss of business, we wish you a loss of business, and a poor fiscal year;
Apartheid is how Leviev gets rich, screwing workers and Angolans throughout the year.

Riham Barhgouti from Adalah-NY explained, "During the last year, the value of Leviev's company Africa-Israel has plunged dramatically, imperiling his worldwide business empire, and Leviev's image has been badly tarnished by media attention to his companies' settlement construction in violation of international law, as well as his human rights violations in Angola and Namibia. In the new year, we wish that Leviev and all human rights violators will again receive appropriate rewards for their actions."

In the most recent blow to Leviev's reputation, on December 19th Adalah-NY announced that, following complaints by at least four major Hollywood stars whose photos were posted on Leviev's website, Leviev staff removed the entire Celebrities photo section from his website www.leviev.com this week. The photos' removal came after Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation-NYC sent letters to and spoke with representatives for Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields, Andie MacDowell, Lucy Liu, Whitney Houston and Sharon Stone, all of whose names and photos, apparently wearing Leviev jewelry, were featured in a Celebrities section of Leviev's website.

Leviev's companies Africa Israel and Leader have recently built Jewish-only homes on Palestinian land in the Israeli settlements of Zufim, Mattityahu East, Har Homa and Maale Adumim, impoverishing Palestinian communities like Bil'in and Jayyous and violating international law. Leviev also funds the settlement organization the Land Redemption Fund. In Angola, Leviev's close partnership in the diamond trade with President Dos Santos supports a corrupt government. In December, the Israeli financial journal Globes published an expose of Leviev's serious rights abuses and failure to fully comply with the Kimberley Process in Angola (English translation). And in Namibia, Leviev recently fired around 200 striking diamond polishers, some of whom were already struggling to survive on less than $2/day. In New York, Leviev's real estate ventures in partnership with Shaya Boymlegreen have been associated with the displacement of lower- and middle-income families, prompting community and labor groups to organize against them.

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With the Gaza genocide, I'm really scared that another 9-11 is going to happen its the only PR israel knows that can change people's mind. Even celebrities although they are sellouts and just as criminal are seeing it more popular to move in to the anti-zionist camps, which scares me....