Adalah-New York’s campaign against Leviev, the Russian-Israeli diamond dealer who has funded colonies in the West Bank, has new bite. Dubai has reconsidered and rejected plans by Leviev to open two stores there, evidently because of his role in illegal colonization.
“They sort of folded under the media pressure,” David Bloom, an
Adalah-NY activist, said of the Dubai government. He credited his own
organization — which circulated an e-mail titled “Is Dubai Helping
Ethnic Cleansing In Palestine?” — as well as Arab media outlets, with
embarrassing Dubai into disavowing a connection with Leviev.
Kudos to Adalah, and to the Forward’s Marissa Brostoff, for using the words "ethnic cleansing in Palestine." Hope it breaks a spell on American Jewry!
