NEW YORK, May 11, 2009 (WAFA)- Forty New York human rights advocates gathered at the Leviev jewelry store on Madison Avenue in New York, calling on Madison Avenue shoppers to boycott Israeli diamond industrialist Lev Leviev over his companies’ construction of Jewish colonies on Palestinian land in West Bank villages including Bil’in and Jayyous.
The New York protesters also commemorated Bassem Abu Rahma from Bil’in who was shot to death by Israeli soldiers last month during a peaceful protest against the construction of the Mattityahu East outpost by a Leviev company and of the Israeli Apartheid Wall on Bil’in’s land.
