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 Lev Leviev, Israel’s richest man, is again facing protests by human rights activists demanding that he cease his funding of Israeli settlements in the West bank.
Just two days after the grand opening of Leviev’s Madison Avenue jewelry store ‘Leviev New York’, protesters gathered for a second time, after having previously disrupting a gala opening on November 13th.
In a loud, festive protest Tuesday evening, 40 New Yorkers chanted, danced Palestinian Dabka and performed street theater. Protesters were faced by a cordon of police officers who leaned against the LEVIEV store windows, blocking any view of the expensive jewelry in the showcase, according to local news outlet Indymedia.
No customers entered the store during the hour and a half protest. Protesters focused on Leviev’s companies’ construction of five illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, Leviev’s close ties with the repressive government of Angola where he mines diamonds, and Leviev’s massive New York City development projects with his former US partner Shaya Boymelgreen, which have been plagued by construction problems, and have frequently utilized underpaid, non-union workers in hazardous conditions.
Protesters chanted, “You sparkle, you shine, but settlements are still a crime,” and “How fancy, how pretty, Leviev out of New York City.” They paused to hear the tale of the “gems of injustice” which featured dancing cardboard diamonds. A performance of the Palestinian national dance, dabka, to the song “Wayn ya Ramallah” was interrupted prematurely by an NYPD officer. Since no customers were willing to enter the store during the protest, protesters handed pedestrians on Madison Avenue gift bags which included soil from Palestine and a thank you note saying, “Dear valued customer, with every purchase you make from *LEVIEV New York*, you help Lev Leviev to seize a handful of Palestinian land in order to build more illegal Israeli settlements.”
Leviev built his fortune selling ‘conflict diamonds’ from apartheid South Africa, and is a major contributor to the development of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. All such settlements are a violation of international law, and have been condemned by the United Nations. |
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