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Is Dubai helping ethnic cleansing in Palestine?

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Features, Khalid Amayreh, Our Authors, Palestine

The government of Dubai recently allowed a major bankroller of Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank to open at least two Jewelry stores in the Gulf emirate.
According to reliable sources in the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a key member-state, Israeli billionaire and diamond magnate Lev Leviev is preparing to open two [...]



Call on Dubai to boycott Leviev's stores over Israel settlements

By Haitham Sabbah • Apr 19th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism

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 [...]