Adalah-NY (the Coalition for Justice in the Middle East) gathered in front of the Leviev diamond boutique on Madison Avenue February 9 -- the seventh time since paying a surprise visit since opening night November 20, 2007.
Outside the Leviev store on Madison Avenue in New York City on Saturday, some 45 pro-Palestinian protesters from Adalah-NY urged shoppers to boycott the upscale boutique, which is owned by Israeli diamantaire Lev Leviev.
“Lev Leviev’s diamonds are a crime’s best friends.” This was not the least of that which around 100 demonstrators from Adalah-NY chanted yesterday outside Lev Leviev’s diamond boutique on elite Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
Protesters from Adalah-NY demonstrated outside Leviev New York this weekend, urging shoppers to boycott the Madison Avenue store on the last major shopping day before Valentine’s Day, in response to Leviev’s construction activities in the West Bank.
Protesters from Adalah-NY will call on Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Lev Leviev's jewellery, on the final shopping day before Valentine's Day is celebrated.
Oxfam is trying to clear its name after a human-rights organization and several blogs questioned its relationship with a controversial Jewish philanthropist, Lev Leviev.
The New York-based Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, also known as Adalah, wrote to Oxfam International this month demanding that it stop accepting charitable contributions from Leviev, a diamond and construction magnate who is in the process of relocating from Israel to Great Britain.
Israel's Coalition of Women for Peace has called on US actress Susan Sarandon to publicly disavow connections with the businesses of Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev due to his companies' construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This follows similar requests to Sarandon by leading Palestinian civil society organizations, the Palestinian villages of Bil'in and Jayyous where Leviev is building settlements, the US group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Adalah-NY.
