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Act: Tell City Harvest to Say No to Support from Rights Abuser Leviev

Concerned groups of activists have already sent two letters to City Harvest urging them to disavow funds from and ties with Leviev, with no satisfactory response.

By Adalah-NY

Media report that an October fundraiser at billionaire Lev Leviev’s New York diamond store, and a portion of Leviev’s November sales will benefit the New York City anti-hunger organization City Harvest. We strongly believe that City Harvest mission of alleviating hunger in New York City need not be realized at the expense of needy communities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

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Media report that an October fundraiser at billionaire Lev Leviev’s New York diamond store, and a portion of Leviev’s November sales will benefit the New York City anti-hunger organization City Harvest. Business Week and Women’s Wear Daily previously reported on other Leviev fundraisers for City Harvest.

Leviev’s companies have a well-documented history of building Israeli settlements on the land of West Bank Palestinian villages. Settlement construction involves the confiscation and/or destruction of village farmland. Leviev’s companies have also been involved in unethical business practices and human rights abuses in the diamond industry in Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Due to this abysmal human rights record, UNICEF, Oxfam America and CARE, and the governments of Norway and the United Kingdom have all publicly disavowed any relationship with Leviev.

Concerned groups of activists have already sent two letters to City Harvest urging them to disavow funds from and ties with Leviev, with no satisfactory response from City Harvest.

Click here to send an Email to City Harvest Telling Them: Say No to Leviev’s Abuses

http://adalahny.org/web-action/1026/tell-city-harvest-dont-whitewash-levievs-abuses

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You need to make a case

Dec 11, 2012 03:42PM EST

Mike Novack http://

PLEASE -- I am NOT saying that you can't make a case.

But you really DO need to explain why an organization like "City Harvest" should turn down donations from the Devil (example) were the Devil willing to help you feed the hungry (and NOT making any claim upon your soul in exchange for this aid).

Simply not OBVIOUS (and you were asking others to ask City Harvest to do this).

For example --- I don't give to City Harvest but I do donate to the food banks and shelters in my own local area. Should they return MY donations? (assume that I am on the pro-Israel side of THAT conflict).

Mike answered hs own question

Dec 12, 2012 11:44AM EST

Ralph http://

Dear Mike,

I think you ansewred your own question when you suggested that City Harvest should take money from the devil to feed hungry people. Many people wold not agree with you on that.

Also, Leviev does have a claim on City harvest's soul, as his name and City Harvest's are name now forever linked in major media and around the internet.

By the way, though you seem to exhibit some dysfunctional reasoning regarding Palestinians, did you look into Leviev's involvement in human rights abuses and unethical business practices in the diamond industry in Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe?

Lastly, while you may be an internet troll and ethically challenged, I am not aware of any reason that a nonprofit should turn away your money. Leviev on the other hand is actively involved in destroying communities in Palestine and southern Africa.

Forever LInked

Dec 12, 2012 12:34PM EST

Savages http://

Like Islam is forever linked with 9/11, 1993 bombing of the WTC, with Fort Hood, Londons 7/7/05 transport bombings, Bali bombings, Mumbai India massacre,.

Different

Dec 12, 2012 01:06PM EST

Ralph http://

Islam is a broad and diffuse religion and belief system (like other religions). Anyone can be claiming to act on behalf of Islam, and their claim that they are doing so is unverifiable, and will rightly not be accepted by many. The individuals carrying out actions need to be held accountable.

Leviev is a specific individual. His actions are verifiable and proven. His companies are implicated in serious human rights abuses in Occupied Palestine and in southern Africa. He should be held accountable for his proven actions.

City Harvest should ensure that it is not linked to and effectively legitimizing Leviev's human rights abuses. For the moment they are unless they now publicly disavow him.

Verified

Dec 13, 2012 09:48AM EST

Reality Czech http://

Islamists have committed murderous attacks and atrocities all over the world.

THAT IS VERIFIED.

44,000+ dead in Syria.
8 year Iraq/Iran war.
Honor killings.
Beheading captives and posting the murder on the Internet.
Bombing churches, synagogues and mosques.
Using poison gas, a WMD, on the Kurds of Halabja Iraq killing 5,000.
Bombing Pan Am 103.

The above and much more were perpetrated not by Zionists, but by Islamofascists who are defended by socialists and other fascists.

BTW Ralph, If you are against occupation, then please end your brutal, racist occupation of Native American land. Head back to Eurabia, Africa or Asia.