6th Annual Adalah-NY Anti-Apartheid Holiday Caroling at Leviev

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Video, "Diamond Mines" Caroling at Leviev 2012

Adalah NY's 6th Annual Anti-Apartheid Holiday Caroling at Leviev Jewelry Store, NYC

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"Oppression does not match your dress!!" Members of Adalah NY, The NY campaign for the Boycott of Israel serenade shoppers in front of Lev Leviev's jewelry store on Madison Avenue, NYC on Dec 15, 2012. Singing "Diamond Mines" (to the tune of "Silver Bells"), the holiday carolers call attention to Lev Leviev, who is developing Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which is illegal under international law. Israeli settlements deprive Palestinians of their homes, land, and basic human rights.

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Adalah NY's Anti-Apartheid Holiday Caroling, NYC

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"Oh justice for Palestinian women and men." Members of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel serenade shoppers in front of Lev Leviev's jewelry store on Madison Avenue, NYC on Dec 15, 2012. Singing "Boycott Leviev Jewelry Store" (to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"), the holiday carolers call attention to Lev Leviev, who is developing Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, which is illegal under international law. Israeli settlements deprive Palestinians of their homes, land, and basic human rights.

Press Release

New Yorkers sing carols for an end to abuses by developer Lev Leviev

Protesters urge local nonprofit City Harvest to reject Leviev support

New York, NY, December 15, 2012 – Eighty New Yorkers sang parody carols in front of Israeli settlement-developer and diamond magnate Lev Leviev’s Madison Avenue jewelry store this afternoon. This was the sixth annual holiday demonstration at the store. Leviev’s companies have built thousands of Israeli settlement homes on Palestinian land, and are also involved in human rights abuses and unethical business practices in the diamond industry in Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

The protest took place during a period of heightened international criticism of Israeli settlement expansion. This week New Zealand’s Superannuation Fund, which invests $20 billion on behalf of New Zealand’s government, announced its divestment from Leviev’s companies and two others due to their construction of settlements and Israel’s wall in violation of international law.

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Be part of Adalah-NY's critically acclaimed
Holiday Caroling Choir in front of Lev Leviev's jewelry store

For the sixth straight year, we will tell settlement builder and diamond magnate
Lev Leviev that he is not welcome in our city!
Read more about why we visit LEVIEV every year.

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Endorsed by Artists Against Apartheid, NYC Chapter; Brooklyn For Peace; Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine; CUNY - Brooklyn College Students for Justice in Palestine; CUNY - Hunter Students for Justice in Palestine; CUNY - John Jay College Students for Justice in Palestine; Existence is Resistance; Granny Peace Brigade; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) - New York City; Jews Say No!; New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT); Park Slope Food Coop Members for BDS; Siege Busters Working Group; Students for Justice in Palestine at NYU; WESPAC Foundation; Women in Black, Union Square.

Event Location: 

Leviev NYC
700 Madison Ave Between 62nd and 63rd Sts
New York , NY

Event Date: 

Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm

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