Susan Sarandon has expressed surprising unwillingness to denounce her support for the Israeli Billionaire, Lev Leviev, who has been criticized by a variety of NGOs including Adalah-NY for his involvement in building settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Human rights protesters took to the streets in New York last week to continue their campaign against an Israeli billionaire who is suspected of building settlements in the occupied West Bank. Adalah-NY, a Jewish-Palestinian umbrella group of activists, vowed to maintain pressure on Lev Leviev, a real estate and diamond mogul who is one of the richest men in Israel, over his suspected activities in the West Bank and to prevent him from opening more Leviev diamond jewellery stores in Dubai.

Key critics such as New York-based Adalah-NY Coalition of Coalition for Justice in the Middle East in cooperation with the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign National Committee, a wide coalition of the largest Palestinian mass organisations, trade unions, networks and organisations, have been campaigning against Lev Leviev's companies.

Two Jewish groups have asked a United Nations agency providing assistance to children in developing countries to reconsider its decision to reject donations from Jewish philanthropist Lev Leviev.