Guests at the Museum of the City of New York’s “New York After Dark” cocktails Tuesday night expecting the usual champagne concoctions and outdoor dancing found a surprise waiting for them. Posted outside the upper Fifth Avenue mansion was a vocal and incensed pack of 25 protestors from Adalah-NY — sans permit, according to one observer — complete with signs and a take-no-prisoners attitude.

International diamantaire Lev Leviev again finds himself in the eye of a storm in Britain where pro-Palestinian organizations including Adalah-NY expressed outrage upon learning of the British Embassy’s intentions to rent three floors in Tel Aviv’s Hakirya building which is owned by Leviev’s Africa Israel Company.

The British Government's plan to rent new premises in a Tel Aviv skyscraper has run into trouble after a wave of protests that their prospective landlord is a major participant in Jewish settlement-building in the occupied West Bank.

The chosen location for the new UK embassy in Tel Aviv has proven controversial, with human rights activists arguing that it contravenes the country's policy towards Jewish colonies on Palestinian land.