Showing posts with label israeli settlers. Show all posts
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12 April 2009

Zionists Rally in Sderot After "Temporary Arrest"

Rightists' rally begins after organizers released

Right-wing activists began a rally in Sderot, Sunday afternoon, after police released over a dozen organizers who had been "preventively arrested" earlier in the day and the organizers themselves submitted a request to hold the rally in the city.

Police said that the request was granted on the understanding that the rally would be the only event to take place. Organizers, however, said that they still planned to march towards Gush Katif and set up an outpost.

09 April 2009

Hamas Request to Resume Resistance Against Israeli Settlers

Israeli racist zionist settlers on stolen illegal land have the protection of the israeli army with tanks and weapons daily. Just yesterday a group of ARMED zionist settlers attacked a Palestinian village, yet when the IDF arrived they protected the illegal murdering settlers and used their weapons against the victims. So, I say hamas has the right to defend it's people, JUST like Israel does! Story below:

Hamas urges PNA to halt security coordination with Israel

GAZA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement urged on Thursday the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to halt security coordination with Israel in the West Bank, and give a free hand to militants to resist the Israeli settlers.

Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesman in Gaza said in a written statement sent to reporters that after frequent attacks of the settlers "on our people in the West Bank, security coordination must stop and resistance should resume."

On Wednesday, 48 Palestinians were injured, two were in critical conditions during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Hamas said the settlers were protected by the Israeli army.

"The serious Israeli escalation in Jerusalem as well as in Gaza and the West Bank, in particular the settlers attacks on our people in Hebron won't happen if there was no security coordination and there was resistance," said Barhoum.

The PNA and Israel has security agreements of coordination, upon the signed interim agreements reached in the 1990s. The PNA security forces had cracked down on militant groups in the West Bank, mainly Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

"Disarming the resistance has given full opportunity to the Zionist rappers to target our people in Hebron, in Selwan and in Jerusalem. It also encouraged them to escalate their attacks on our people," said Barhoum.

After right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu formed a right-wing majority coalition government, the Palestinian opposition calls to halt the peace talks and security coordination with Israel had mounted.

"I wonder why the Authority (in Ramallah) keeps the security coordination in spite of the ongoing daily attacks on our people in the West Bank and a fanatic Zionist government has been formed," said Barhoum.

08 April 2009

Israeli Settlers ATTACK Palestinians~IDF Shoots At Victims

Saw this on tele this AM, disgraceful. Racist ARMED Zionist settlers, come into a Palestinian village, attack and shoot at people, the Israeli Army comes (not to help those being attacked mind you!) and the IDF then defend the settlers when the Palestinians throw stones back at the ARMED settlers! Several Palestinians were injured when israeli Racist Immoral Nazi soldiers fired metal coated plastic bullets AND Live rounds at them.I look forward to the day when those racist murdering land stealing bigots are removed, kicking and screaming as they are dragged back to IsraHELL where they belong.

Villagers hurt in West Bank clash

At least eight Palestinian have been injured in clashes near an Israeli settlement

Palestinians say the clashes broke out after armed Israeli settlers from Beit Ayin attacked homes in Beit Safa, a nearby Palestinian village.

Israeli forces say they fired live bullets at the legs of stone-throwers.

A hospital in the West Bank town of Hebron said one Palestinian was seriously injured and another three were moderately hurt.
Doctors said one of the injured was hit in the neck with a live round.

The Israeli military said Palestinians had begun throwing stones at settlers from Bat Ayin in the southern West Bank, who had gone to a hilltop to say a special sun blessing prayer in an event which occurs once every 28 years.

Palestinian residents of Beit Safa said a group of settlers, some armed, had entered their village and begun throwing rocks at homes and damaging cars.

They said Israeli forces had arrived and used tear gas, rubber coated bullets and live ammunition to end the disturbance.

An Israeli military spokesperson said "crowd dispersing means" were used initially, but when the crowd became more violent, troop used live ammunition to target the lower body parts of some people in the crowd, and "identified hits".

In 2002, three residents of the settlement were given long jail terms for trying to blow up a Palestinian girls' school in Jerusalem.

Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

The violence comes amid concerns over a clash of opinion between the new Israeli government, led by right-winger Binyamin Netanyahu, and Barack Obama's US administration.

Mr Obama has stressed his commitment to a two-state solution, but Mr Netanyahu does not back the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.
His Foreign Minister, far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman, said on Tuesday that peace talks with the Palestinians had reached a "dead end".

02 April 2009

Israeli Killed in Illegal Settlement

Perhaps this is the only way Palestinians can fight back from being ethnically cleansed by Israel. If Israeli's were not on stolen Palestinian land illegally then they'd not be under attack.

According to reports from the scene, the attacker entered the settlement of Bat Ayin and went on the rampage this morning.

Rescuers told Israel Radio a 13-year-old boy was killed and a seven-year-old boy was badly wounded.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.

The attack is likely to heighten tensions between the Palestinians and the new hard-line Israeli government.

It occurred about 12 miles from the settlement home of controversial new Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Sporadic attacks occur in the West Bank. In March, two Israeli police officers were killed by Palestinians.

It is not confirmed that this attack was carried out by a Palestinian but Israeli emergency services are describing it as a "Palestinian terrorist attack". (comical this statement)

Israeli settlements are built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank against international law.

Their existence is one of the main obstacles to peace
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30 March 2009

BOYCOTT~ Illegal Settler Avocado Goes to Jail

I just love how they reported this.

Londoners lock up criminal Israeli goods in Tesco on Sunday 29 March!

Pictured below is a convicted Illegal Settler Avocado~LOCK IT UP!


Sunday 29 March 2009, Londoners converged towards Tesco supermarkets in West London in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

Avocadoes, pomellos, cherry tomatoes, herbs and dates grown in Israel and on illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank were trapped in baskets and trolleys in order to disrupt the sale of such produce and symbolise the need for clear international action against illegal Israeli settlements and Israeli war crimes in the region. Leaflets were placed on the empty shelves explaining the role of Israeli goods in funding Israeli settler colonialism and state violence.

Tesco, and most supermarkets in Britain, stock and sell Israeli goods including produce from illegal Israeli settlements implanted in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Some of this settlement product is misleadingly labelled 'West Bank' leading many customers to believe they are buying Palestinian produce, while some is labelled 'made in Israel' even though the settlements are clearly colonial entities outside of Israel's internationally recognized borders.

The event was timed to mark Yom el Ard, the yearly celebration of the Palestinian civil rights movement, as well as the global day for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions ( http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1668/381/, http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/351, http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1615/1/)

In recent months, the global pressure for Israel to end its violence against Palestinians has been increasingly felt inside Israel.( http://www.alternativenews.org/content/view/1605/110/)



I say lock em all up and throw away the key! Keep hitting Israel in the wallet where it will hurt! Boycott anything with a bar code that begins with 729 or anything grwon in the West Bank on illegal land.

28 March 2009

IDF Tear Gas Protesters in West Bank~AGAIN

It is Soooooooo past the time for these land stealing, thieving, illegal, evil, racist, Zionists, to be removed from squatting on other peoples land whilst their Zionist armed to the teeth racist soldiers shoot and murder the rightful owners. I hope I live to see the day they are dragged screaming and kicking off that land, evil racists.

Soldiers tear-gas pacifists in West Bank demo
3 hours ago

HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) — Israeli soldiers used tear gas grenades to break up a demonstration on Saturday by Israeli, Palestinian and foreign pacifists in the occupied flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.

No casualties were reported, an AFP correspondent said.

About 150 demonstrators were demanding that Palestinians again be allowed to used a road in the old town of Hebron after they were denied access by the Israeli military for security reasons.

Israeli Arab member of parliament Muhammed Barakeh of the Hadash communist party was among the protesters.

About 600 Jewish settlers live under Israeli military protect in in central Hebron, the West Bank city inhabited by 170,000 Palestinians.

Arab MK Attacked by IDF at Protest

This just in from Haaretz


Arab MK: IDF soldiers attacked me in Hebron

Israeli Arab MK Mohammad Barakeh claimed on Saturday he was attacked by Israel Defense Forces soldiers during a demonstration in Hebron.

Barakeh, chairman of the Hadash party, said troops pushed him violently and sprayed him with tear gas when they through tear gas and shock grenades into the crowd.

The incident occurred when IDF soldiers asked dozens of leftist and Palestinian demonstrators to disperse. They had staged their protest in front of the settlement inside the West Bank city, a frequent flashpoint for tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

Barakeh, however, refused to leave and told the soldiers that the only people able to make such a request were the city's true owners, the Palestinians.

The IDF relayed in response that troops were not at all violent toward the lawmaker. They employed riot control measures, the army said, after the protestors had refused to leave despite an IDF order declaring the area a closed military zone.

The army and police said according to video they took of the incident, it is clear that Barakeh was not attacked.

(Right he was not attacked and neither was Tristan Anderson!!)

26 March 2009

Israel & Egypt-30th Anniversary Not Happy One

Egypt & Israel,
Happy 30th Anniversary?
Maybe not!

Egypt has suffered greatly due to the recent genocide in Gaza and it's shameless silence and support for fellow Arabs being slaughtered en mass. Many in Egypt and other Arab states are not celebrating the Egypt-Israeli treaty’s 30th anniversary, and with good reason. Great report from the BBC just out:

In Cairo, the 30th anniversary of the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt is seen by many as a moment for regret, not celebration.

"It's a celebration for Israel - not for Egypt, not for the Arabs, not for the Palestinians," says Issam al-Aryan of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist opposition movement which is officially banned in Egypt.

"I think the majority of Egyptians are against the treaty after 30 years."
Israel is holding events to mark what it calls a "watershed" moment, the first time an Arab nation recognised the Jewish state.

But there are no commemorations in Egypt, where discussion of the treaty focuses on concerns over Israel's new right-wing government and a campaign in the courts to stop Egypt selling its gas to Israel at below-market rates.

Pariah status

Under the deal, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula which it had occupied in whole or in part since 1967. In return, Egypt agreed to demilitarise the area and normalise relations with Israel. Promises of a comprehensive peace agreement for the whole Middle East quickly ran into the sand and Egypt went from a leader in the Arab world to a pariah.

Despite public outrage, the government refused to open its border with Gaza, leading to accusations that Cairo was putting its relationship with Israel and the US above the suffering of the Palestinians.

But some say Egypt could worry less about antagonising Israel.

"Since Israel violated its commitments [under the treaty] by carrying out military actions on Egyptian borders, by not going along with the intention in Camp David to reach a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East, and violated its commitments to the Palestinians, and its commitments under international law, I think Egypt has a good argument for offering more support to the Palestinians," says Professor Mustafa Kamel al-Sayed of the American University in Cairo

Undiplomatic presence

But the arrival of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government in Israel, including the hardliner Avigdor Lieberman as a possible foreign minister, brings fresh concerns for stability. Mr Lieberman said Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak should "go to hell", and has suggested bombing the Aswan Dam, drowning Egypt in the waters of the Nile.

Such language does "not make Israelis very good partners", admits former diplomat Ahmed Maher:

"The Israelis are so arrogant... We are on a very shaky foundation, but a shaky foundation which has endured because we Egyptians have been wise.
"You can't live by the sword alone, this is something the Israelis, in the arrogance of power, have not yet realised."

Many Egyptians are bitter that their precedent of exchanging land for peace did not lead to a comprehensive settlement.

Instead, some believe Israel returned Sinai to consolidate its hold on other occupied territories and free its hand to pursue military action against the Palestinians and in Lebanon.

Fact of life

Although there is now talk of a possible deal between Israel and Syria, Issam al-Aryan warns the Syrians not to believe it will help in the wider conflict:
"I hope they can study and review 30 years of discomfort and struggle in Egypt against the treaty.

"They are intelligent enough to get the lesson: the problem is not in Golan or Sinai, it is in Acre, Haifa, Jaffa, Gaza, Ramallah, that is the problem."
But even the Muslim Brotherhood shies away from calling for Egypt's treaty to be ripped up.

"Many people are opposed to this treaty," says Professor Mustafa Kamel al-Sayed.
"Israel did not live up to its treaty... But I think the Egyptian public considers the treaty to be a fact of life".

In three decades, Egypt's cold peace with Israel has never warmed.
The treaty may now be a fact of life. But it is still not a comfortable one.

23 March 2009

Israel Killing Palestine Without Weapons

UPDATE On the Water Issue. I wrote about this the other day HERE, this is a very important issue. Israel controls most of the water into Palestine and Gaza. Israel also steals ¼ of Gazan water for its illegal Zionist settlers. What this means is that only 9000 Israeli Zionist settlers consume a whopping ONE QUARTER of Gaza’s water. This translates into only about 10% of Gaza’s water being drinkable. Read more below:

President Abbas: Israel Can’t Continue to Control Trans-boundary Water

ISTANBUL, March 21, 2009 (WAFA)- On the Fifth World Water Forum and World Water Day, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, Saturday, that “Israel must now realize that it cannot continue to control the Palestinian people and with it, it cannot continue to unilaterally control trans-boundary water and other resources.”

In a statement read on his behalf by the Head of the Palestinian Water Authority Dr. Shaddad Attili, President Abbas said that for almost 42 years, Israel has been in control over Palestinian water resources, and has not shared them equally with Palestinians as required by international law. “Palestinian domestic consumption of water is 4 times less than the Israeli’s, which is less than the World Health Organization’s guidelines for minimum recommended daily levels,” the President added.

President Abbas expressed his disappointment about Israeli colonizers’ use of water, as 9000 Israeli colonizers consume one quarter of the whole consumption of Palestinians in the West Bank, besides the destruction of Gaza water resources. Only 10- 20 % of water there is drinkable.

Regarding the case of Jordan River Basin and other trans-boundary waters including the coastal aquifer underneath Gaza, Abbas said “I am pleased to announce, today, our intention to become a party to this treaty once we have attained statehood. Furthermore, we urge other states that have not yet ratified the UN Convention to join us and the other 16 countries in accepting this fair system of cooperating with regard to the vital resource we celebrate today.”

The UN Convention aims to conserve and manage ground and surface water resources by compelling an obligation on UN member states to share water and cooperate on water-related matters fairly. It provides that the member states negotiate or find a third party agreement.

LINK

05 March 2009

05/03/09 Israel Tells Arabs in Jerusalem "Get Out of Town"



Israelis in Jerusalem gives its Arab residents a big message “Get out of town”

So, if you are racist, when all else fails, and you are attempting to Ethnically cleanse an area. If you can’t steal the land off them, just destroy their houses, then maybe they will all leave. Nice one Israel, never cease to amaze me with your racism, bigotry and evilness.


Demolition plans rattle Arabs in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM // It was a bitterly cold and wet morning to spend outdoors. But for those who gathered at a makeshift tent in the Bustan neighbourhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem, on Sunday morning, it is a situation they fear they may have to get used to.

“I hope it won’t get to that,” said Saleh Shweiki, 56, an herbologist and local resident whose house is threatened with demolition by Jerusalem’s municipal authorities. “I have 13 children and with their children we are 35 people in my house.”

Mr Shweiki and 87 families have lived under the threat of demolition for nearly four years now. The demolition orders were handed down because, according to the municipality, the houses were built without licences in what is designated as a national park area.

Residents, human rights groups and lawyers are crying foul, however. They say the demolition orders are part of a larger Israeli scheme to make life untenable for Jerusalem’s Palestinian inhabitants.
snip

Furthermore, the City of David archaeological park that the area is meant for is funded by a controversial Israeli organisation, El Ad, which is active in promoting building in areas of occupied East Jerusalem exclusively for Jewish housing and in transgression of international law.
snip
“What is happening now is done in order to slowly but surely prevent the local population from existing there.”

The demolition orders were first handed down in 2005, but an international outcry prevented demolitions from being carried out then. A compromise was reached whereby the residents would, at their own expense, put forward a plan for the development of the area.

On Feb 17, however, the municipality rejected that plan. The new mayor in Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, promised more Jewish settlement in the occupied eastern part of the city during his campaign for office. Moreover, he left Ehud Olmert’s Kadima Party because he was adamantly opposed to any future division of the city.
Snip

“There are several recent [political] developments that have brought the demolitions up again,” Mr Kawar said, but “ultimately it’s about racism. The municipality wants the land without the people”.
snip

“This is a battle for Jerusalem, make no mistake about it,” said Abed Shalode of the Popular Committee for the Defence of Silwan, a local grassroots organisation that is fighting the demolition orders.

“They [Israelis] may put different reasons for why they want these houses down to why they built Maaleh Admumim [the largest settlement in the occupied West Bank], but the aim is the same. They want Palestinians out.”


http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090304/FOREIGN/564704137/1002

04 March 2009

04/03/09 Lev Leviev-Next Israeli Prime Minister Lives in England

England has a Zionist cancer living within its borders, and one who proclaims to be working towards becoming the next Prime Minister of Israel, take note.





Today’s post will be about Israeli Billionaire Lev Leviev, he just got pwnd by England today regarding the location of an Embassy.

Embassy snub to Leviev firm
The British embassy in Tel Aviv has decided not to move into a building owned by tycoon Lev Leviev because of his company’s role in settlement construction in the West Bank.
http://www.thejc.com/articles/embassy-snub-leviev-firm


While this is a good thing, England should be very aware of what is perhaps his real goal and reasons for suddenly moving to cold rainy England from sunny warm Israel. But who is Lev Leviev, for those of you who do not know, let me tell you about him.

Last year he was also cut from UNICEF for his support of Israeli Settler activity and funding of said activity.

UNICEF cuts ties to Israeli billionaire Leviev
NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. children's fund UNICEF has severed ties with an Israeli billionaire and financial backer due to his suspected involvement in building settlements in the occupied West Bank, UNICEF said on Friday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUKN2047885820080620


Leviev is a Russian born Jew/Zionist who ultimately went to live in Israel, but moved to England in 2007 (more on the England move later)His move to London follows in the footsteps of more high-profile billionaires, including his friend Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club. Leviev makes his billions off of Africa’s diamond mines and has a company called Africa-Israel, and AFI Development ( in England) among others. Aside from making fist loads of money, he does other “charitable” work for the good of mankind, or should I say the good of expanding the boundaries of Israel across the whole of Palestine . But there is more than just this, read on.

From wiki:
Israeli settlements

Leviev is involved in the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Leviev’s Danya Cebus company, a subsidiary of Africa-Israel, subcontracted the construction of Mattityahu East to Shaya Boymelgreen. Danya Cebus is also building part of Har Homa and Maale Adumim .[5] In 1999, Leviev’s company Danya Cebus announced plans to build new homes in the settlement of Ariel[6] Through another subsidiary, LIDAR, Leviev appears to be the sole realtor/developer of the settlement of Zufim.

Leviev’s devotion to settlement construction have drawn protest from outside the Old Bond Street store in his London home, to the Leviev-owned jewelry store in New York City, and has impelled Oxfam to make it clear that Leviev has not donated to the charity.[8][9] UNICEF has also advised Leviev that they will not partner with or accept any contributions from him due to the controversy.[10] In a press release, a spokesperson for Leviev described the protests as “politically motivated” and accused protesters of “deliberately neglect[ing]... extensive humanitarian and philanthropic work, which includes building schools, orphanages, and fostering economic development in communities around the world.”[11] Anti-Defamation League head Abraham Foxman condemned UNICEF’s decision as “selective political discrimination” that “only gives legitimacy to those who would seek to promote a boycott of the State of Israel and its supporters.”

ENGLAND
Israeli diamond billionaire Lev Leviev, who immigrated to Israel from Uzbekistan in 1971, has bought the most expensive new property ever sold in Britain -a $70 million home with a bullet-proof front door costing $100,000, British real estate dealers said on Tuesday.



Leviev moved to Hampstead, London, with his wife Olga and their daughter, Ruthie, in 2007. However, as a keen follower of golf, Leviev maintains a house in the beach resort of Ponte Vedra, Florida


Isn’t it just great how we can always count on the ADL to stand up for Israel, all the while ignoring all other forms of racism in America? I wonder how many times they come to the aid of Arab or Muslim groups. Ah but I digress…Leviev’s other work involves an attempt to infiltrate secular Jewish schools in Israel with his views of Judaism. Thus he created a curriculum for grades 1-6 in order to indoctrinate them, despite this being against Education policy.


Diamond magnate Leviev funds religious programs in schools

Lev Leviev, an internationally known real estate and diamonds magnate, paid money to 60 Israeli state schools through his foundation to teach "traditional values and Jewish culture".

The organization - The Leviev Foundation for Jewish Education and Identity -
The religious lessons are provided from grades 1 through 6, and are taught by religious female students at teacher training colleges. The teachers discuss the importance of prayer and the Halakhic view of history

Chairman of the Pedagogical Department of the Education Ministry Professor Anat Zohar, the official in charge of approving state educational curriculum, stated that upon review, the courses offered by Leviev "are not suitable for the state schools system."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/909340.html



But it would appear that his power and money can bypass the Chairman of the Pedagogical Department of the Education Ministry Professor, as his Zionist brainwashing techniques are still being taught, despite a ban in place. Two reports from Haaretz below:


Ultra-Orthodox program taught in schools despite ministry ban

Ultra-Orthodox businessman Lev Leviev is continuing to run an elementary school program to increase Jewish content in the curriculum, even though the Education Ministry decided the program was unfit to be taught in state schools.

A few months ago, the Leviev Foundation presented the ministry with a second version of the program, but it too was rejected

Some 70 schools in Rishon Letzion ,Netanya ,Petah Tikva and Beit Shemesh are running the program. The Leviev Foundation finances the study hours, books and other materials. The lessons are held in the middle of the school day, so all the pupils are obliged to take part in them.

." The Shenhar Report stated that Jewish studies in state schools should be taught with a secular-humanist, rather than theological, approach.

Parents who tried to find out whether the program was authorized for implementation in their children's school had difficulty getting a clear answer.

"Every time I asked, the school evaded the question," a mother from Netanya said. "I was told I was petty and apparently bored. When I insisted, they promised to get it authorized retroactively."

A mother from Rishon Letzion said, "I did not send my children to a state school to have to ask them what exactly they learned in Jewish identity class. It's impertinent of ultra-Orthodox groups to presume to teach us, the secular people, about Jewish tradition, as though we don't know those things. The most infuriating thing is the Education Ministry's incompetence."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/923325.html


And now we see below, it is still being taught despite TWO bans, like I said, power and money=the ability to buy and brainwash the minds of young children in secular Jewish schools. I wonder if he plans on building any schools in England perhaps?

Lev Leviev's religion classes still taught despite two government bans

A religious educational program funded by a billionaire and banned twice by the Education Ministry is still being taught in more than 70 Israeli schools.

The program, called "Zman Masa," or "Journey Time," is paid for by the foundation of Lev Leviev, a Russian-born Israeli real estate and diamond magnate, who says he was horrified by what he calls a lack of religious education in secular Israeli schools.

The Education Ministry's Pedagogical Department said last year that the courses offered by Leviev are unsuitable. The program was later rejected for a second time, due to the fact that the material pushes the ultra-Orthodox stream of Judaism, as opposed to the secular-humanist approach of the state education system.

LINK AND VIDEO
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/987656.html


But it is not just Israel and perhaps England where he wants to spread his teachings, he is also targetting New York as well. See here:

Jewish Charities:

Leviev reportedly donates at least $30 million each year to causes associated with the Hasidic movement. He established a school for his fellow Bukharan Jews in Elmhurst, the Queens Gymnasia. He reportedly has set a goal to make it possible for all Jewish children in New York to go to religious, not public, schools

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/31549/


So, just what are his views of Jews?

'WE need Judaization'

"We're ashamed of what we are," he says. "That's why we feel that we have to get rid of the values of our glorious history and run to learn from other, new nations.

Don't I look to you like a man of the world? Don't I speak to the leading businessmen in the world? And it's no problem that I'm a Jew, and a proud Jew who wears a skullcap everywhere, and that's my symbol and my identity.

There were Jews who told people here [in Russia]: Don't wear a tallit (prayer shawl), don't walk around like Jews, keep quiet. But that's what brings anti-Semitism: when a Jew tries to resemble a goy. When a Jew behaves like what he is - a Jew - a goy begins to respect him, too. When he is not ashamed, then he is respected. I come to eat with very important people in the world, and I say 'only kosher,' and always with a skullcap. I don't recall that my business ever suffered from that."



NOTE- The mega rich can do what they want. His business never suffered because he is worth 6.5 billion and has money, power and influence!! Not because of him being a radical Jew.

More on this:

'WE need Judaization' "Our worldview is mistaken."

We as Jews are obligated to take care of every one of our own, including him. It is written that all of Israel is part of God above, we are part of the Holy One, blessed be he - so for me there's no difference between a Jew in Israel and a Jew abroad.

"That question reflects a mistaken worldview, because the moment a Jew's Jewish soul is poor, of course he won't come to Israel. We want to give him content. My dream is for that to be the job of the Israeli Education Ministry. If not, we have to call it the Ministry of Knowledge. Because there's a big difference between education and knowledge: The moment we don't invest in educating Jewish children according to the roots that were the basis of our education for thousands of years, we are knowledge-givers rather than educators. My vision is that we will live in a Jewish state where 'the Jewish state' won't be written only on the flag, because soon they'll be saying that we have an Arab majority and it won't be nice to write that we're a Jewish state.

He (Leviev) thinks that we are all losing because we don't follow his Jewish path: "Why aren't we in the State of Israel living in peace? Why do we have problems and wars, and all this mess? If we were to live as Jews, according to the Torah, we would be the wealthiest, the most peaceful people, in the safest country," he says.

And why doesn't that happen?

"Because of our behavior, our assimilation, our denial of our Judaism. Every Jew in Israel or in the Diaspora has to know what our roots are, what his ancestors' tradition is, and anyone who thinks otherwise - I say he's simply unfortunate."

"We have become completely confused. We are discussing something that we don't have to discuss - globalization, democratization. We need Judaization.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtStEngPE.jhtml?itemNo=961664&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&title=''WE%20need%20Judaization'%20'&dyn_server=172.20.5.5


So as I mentioned earlier, I wonder what his intention is in England. Why he left sunny Israel, to move to cold rainy England. Is it really because of his financial troubles with AFI Development? Or is there an ulterior motive. Perhaps he is beginning his long global campaign to become Prime Minister of Israel, as he recently stated in an interview in the New York Times where he was quoted as saying he wants to be the Israeli Prime Minister by age 60. Given that he is already 55,we wont have to wait too much longer for the new Zionist Prime Minister of Israel.