On May 27, 2008, representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO) met with representatives from the United Arab Emirates UN Mission in Manhattan. They presented the UAE representatives with a letter from students from the West Bank village ...
Read More »NY Jewish Week: Protesting Leviev, From Here To Dubai
by Walter Ruby – Special to The Jewish Week. To view original article, click here N.Y.-based Arab-Jewish group claims credit for UAE snub of diamond merchant; Leviev spokesman says stores will open under his name. Leviev already operates two jewelry ...
Read More »Adalah-NY: Women worldwide call for Mother’s Day boycott of Leviev’s diamonds
To add your name, email: info@adalahny.org To view the letter and signatures, click here New York, May 2 – During the run-up to Mother’s Day in the US, over 100 women from around the world have signed a letter from ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: Senior official in Dubai government: Leviev has no license for opening a store in the Emirates
Senior official in Dubai government: Leviev has no license for opening a store in the Emirates The Marker: Ha’aretz Daily’s Hebrew-language business magazine (Israel), click here to view (Translated by Adalah-NY) May 1, 2008 By Ora Coren and Michal Ramati ...
Read More »Following boycott call, Dubai says Leviev has no license for planned jewelry stores
Adalah-NY Contact: info@adalahny.org, www.adalahny.org New York, NY, April 30 – In a sudden reversal, just 16 days after Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev publicly announced plans to open two new jewelry stores in Dubai this year, a high-level Dubai government official ...
Read More »Interview: Boycotting Israel at the Arab American University in Jenin
Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is currently volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He previous reports can be found on his blog Ashraf is from Tulkarem, Palestine. He ...
Read More »Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?
From Khalid Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate. According to reliable sources in the ...
Read More »Adalah-NY: New Yorkers protest Leviev’s Israeli settlements, commemorating Palestinian “Land Day”
New York, NY, March 29 – Forty New Yorkers commemorated the Palestinian national holiday Land Day Saturday with the eighth protest at the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. The protest included songs, theater and testimonials from ...
Read More »Adalah-NY: 13 organizations demand Waldorf-Astoria cancel Friends of IDF fundraiser
TO: The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY (sent by fax) SUBJ: Cancel March 18 “Friends of IDF Fundraiser” over Israeli human rights violations DATE: March 11, 2008 As thirteen organizations working for human rights, social justice, and peace, we demand ...
Read More »Ma’ariv: Leviev’s Diamonds at the Oscars
By Gal Karniel 2/24/08 | Ma’ariv on-line (Israel) (Translation by Adalah-NY) Human rights organizations around the world warn against wearing Angolan diamonds at the Oscar ceremony. Again Leviev is in the headlines. Leviev is loaning Oscar nominees jewelry for the ...
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