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Adalah-NY - UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands
Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations
A senior advisor to UNICEF’s Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. Leviev had previously [...]
A Jewish-Palestinian advocacy group held a thank-you rally outside the UAE’s representative office in New York on Tuesday over the country’s stand on not allowing a controversial Israeli businessman from opening a store in Dubai.
The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East (Adalah) gathered on Tuesday outside the UAE representative office in New York city [...]
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). Leviev is attempting to open jewelry stores in the Emirate of Dubai and to sell his diamonds [...]
New York human rights activists, and representatives of the West Bank Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Jayyous called on the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates to boycott the jewelry stores of Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Israeli settlements. According to a flurry of recent [...]
Adalah-NY: Film screened in front of Leviev New York about Palestinian village protesting Leviev’s settlements.
Twenty-five New York protesters and dozens of Madison Avenue passers-by braved sub-freezing temperatures Monday evening to watch the award winning documentary “Bil’in My Love” on the sidewalk 20 feet from the Madison Avenue jewelry store of Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev. [...]
Those calling for a boycott of Israel were once distant voices. Now the discussion has gone global. It is growing inexorably and will not be silenced.
Not a single Israeli academic institution complains about these atrocities: High Court has been wrongly besmirched [By Amira Hass, Haaretz]
Israeli teens don't like Russians
2 Israeli teens assault elderly men playing chess because "they don't like Russians" The indictment reveals that the two had arrived at the park where they approached the immigrants. One of them blew smoke in one of the older men’s faces, and proceeded to hit him on his arm with a ... UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire, Leviev
Some good news: Adalah-NY - UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations A senior advisor to UNICEF's Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli billionaire ... UN Report: Palestinian's Right to Worship
Religious and cultural rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem is a new UN 19 pages report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. It provids shocking -but not surprising- information about the situation. Excerpt: Nablus, located 65 kilometres from Jerusalem, is the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank. ... AIPAC, The Jewish Holy Worriers
Unlike the Rolling Thunder, the Veteran group that descends on Washington, DC every Memorial Day to remind us and the nation, certainly the Congress of the brave men and women who gave up their lives for the love of the country and to remind us and the nation of the ... Obama campaign apologizes for excluding women in hijab
The Detroit News Sen. Barack Obama's campaign apologized Wednesday after volunteers asked two Muslim women not to stand or sit behind the candidate at a rally in Detroit this week out of concerns about the appearance of traditional Muslim dress in published and broadcast visuals of the events. The incident is one ...
