Dubai is known as both a wonderland of exuberance and a stopping point for tourists, travelers and international businessmen.  Unimpressed by its display of wealth and luxury, activists are rallying against Dubai's decision to allow an Israeli businessman and active builder of Israeli settlements to set up shop there.  He promotes Palestinian displacement. In a way, they charge, now Dubai dollars will too.

In recent weeks there have been pro-Palestinian demonstrations in New York and London, calling to boycott Leviev`s jewelry stores because of the construction being done on the other side of the Green Line by the Danya Sibus firm, which is owned by Africa-Israel.

Ever since billionaire diamond and real estate magnate Lev Leviev began to raise his profile and personalize his brand with the opening of deluxe diamond shops in London in 2006 and here in 2007, the 51-year-old Uzbekistan-born tycoon has run into a sustained string of bad news and adverse publicity.

Anti-Israel demonstrators have targeted the diamond stores of Israel’s wealthiest man, Lev Leviev. Protestors gathered outside the London and New York stores to deliver a “Justice Valentine”, claiming that “Lev’s diamonds are crime’s best friend.”