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The Palestine Chronicle

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Officials at the United Arab Emirates Mission to the UN affirmed their government's commitment to boycotting the businesses of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev in a meeting Tuesday afternoon with representatives from Adalah-NY and Jews Against the Occupation (JATO).

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The Jewish Week

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N.Y.-based Arab-Jewish group claims credit for UAE snub of diamond merchant; Leviev spokesman says stores will open under his name. (The original article is no longer online, but the full text was posted to the International Solidarity Movement website.)

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Al Bawaba

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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 said that Leviev had no trade license to open a store in the Emirate. The recent report in Dubai's Gulf News, followed a flurry of media coverage of the call by Palestinians and New York activists for Dubai to boycott Leviev's businesses over his companies' settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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The Arab American News

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Those advocating for issues of importance to Arab Americans rarely have anything to celebrate.  In an era defined by the growth of anti-Arabism and Islamophobia in the West, activists' work is necessary, although uphill.  Last week, activists fighting for related causes won rare, but small, victories. Groups protesting an Israeli settlement-supporting diamond company obstructed its plans to set up shop in Dubai.

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National Jeweler

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Billionaire diamantaire Lev Leviev's plan to open two stores in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is stirring up controversy in the Middle Eastern nation.

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ArabianBusiness.com

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Israeli jewellery firm Leviev lacks a trade license to open boutique stores at the Burj Dubai and on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai despite announcing plans to do so, a senior official at Dubai's Department of Economic Department has said.

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