Press release, Adalah-NY, 4 November 2010
"The following press release was issued by Adalah-NY on 3 November 2010:
"The following press release was issued by Adalah-NY on 3 November 2010:
Africa Israel, the flagship company of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, announced this week that it is no longer involved in Israeli settlement projects and that it has no plans for future settlement activities. Africa Israel subsequently denied that this was a political decision. However, in the last few years numerous organizations, firms, governments and celebrities have exerted pressure and severed their relationships with Leviev and his companies over their involvement in settlement construction and other human rights abuses, in response to a boycott campaign initiated by Adalah-NY.....
As recently as 2008 Leviev expressed strong support for Israel's continued takeover of Palestinian land. In a March 2008 interview in Haaretz daily, reporter Anshel Pfeffer asked Leviev, "Do you have a problem with building in the territories?" Leviev responded, "Not if the State of Israel grants permits legally." According to an English translation of the same Haaretz interview published in The Jewish Chronicle, Leviev explained, "For me, Israel, Jerusalem and Haifa are all the same. ... So are the Golan Heights. As far as I'm concerned, all of Eretz Israel is holy. To decide the future of Jerusalem? It belongs to the Jewish people. What is there to decide? Jerusalem is not a topic for discussion."....."
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