Talk:Lev Leviev

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Contents 1 chabad dynasty 2 settlements 3 ethnicity in lead sentence 4 updates 5 Settlement activity has been noted, deleted 6 For Your Information. 7 Request for Request for Comment 8 Lev Leviev no longer lives in Israel 9 Re-added cleaned up section on settlements

[edit] chabad dynasty

Why is there a "chabad dynasty" box on this page?? --Gilabrand 13:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] settlements

Hi- I made extensive additions with many references to this page earlier regarding Leviev's documented involvement in settlement construction, which are illegal under international law. Why have they been removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.165.167 (talk) 22:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ethnicity in lead sentence

Can/should that be removed per mosbio? TIA --Tom 15:39, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] updates

this article should be updated. Leviev recnetly opened a NYC Madison Ave. store. Adalah NY, a local human rights group, protested outside the opening & called on Susan Sarandon, who crossed the picket line, to oppose Leviev's building of West Bank settlements. Residents of the West Bank village of Bilin also asked Sarandon to oppose Leviev's building of a settlement on land confiscated fr. them. The NY Post, Jewish Forward & Jewish Telegraphic Agency have all covered this story. There is more in my blog post [1]

Haaretz also reports that Leviev is a major supporter of the Land Redemption Fund, which buys Arab land under false pretences in order to transfer it to settlements. Leviev also owns the Elad Company whose goal is to "Judaize" East Jerusalem (again this is from Haaretz).

Leviev also now owns more than $1 billion in NY real estate & will be moving his offices from Israel to London according to Haaretz. Richard (talk) 21:25, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Since the US is on its way to economic oblivion, Leviev left Israel and preferred to settle in London, rather than New York. (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3318016.ece) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.122.63 (talk) 00:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Levien no longer lives in Israel. He moved to London, UK! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.1.133.81 (talk) 18:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Settlement activity has been noted, deleted

Notes on Leviev's construction of settlements have been added and deleted twice now. I have added them once before, I will restore them--why are they being deleted? Please do not delete without providing some explanation, or edit what you find problematic without deleting the entire section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.199.64 (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi-I'm one of two users who has tried to add information about Leviev's settlement activity to this page, only to have it reverted. If you would like to discuss it, please tell me what NPOV/BLP violations you found that caused you to revert and protect the page from future edits.

[edit] For Your Information.

Unfortunately there are a number of people who act as censor for "inconvenient truths" at Wikipedia. I had similar experiences concerning my edition to a Susan Sarandon article when I posted that she crossed an anti-Leviev picket line last November. They accused me of POV and removed it. Then one or two of them began to start to "edit" an article I was working on-- I suppose to send me a message or punish me. What can one do, except to get more like minded people as you to counter them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Artpot (talk • contribs) 21:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Request for Comment

An active editor on this article should post an RFC on the censorship issue. Seems valid. My own opinion is that the protests are quite appropriate to include. ike to hear from others. Boodlesthecat (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I would also agree that the settlement criticism & resulting protests should be included, of course in a WP:NPOV way. Kalkin (talk) 20:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lev Leviev no longer lives in Israel

Lev Leviev has recently moved to a mansion in New Hampstead, London, United Kingdom. See this if you dont believe me. PLEASE CORRECT THAT!!!--Nadir D Steinmetz 19:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Why wouldn't anyone believe you? Boodlesthecat (talk) 21:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, than correct the article. Anyways, why is it protected, and not semi-protected?--Nadir D Steinmetz 21:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Uh, I can't its protected. Boodlesthecat (talk) 23:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re-added cleaned up section on settlements

Since no one has argued otherwise for a couple of weeks, and the page is no longer protected, I've restored a cleaned up section on Israeli settlements with some of the former info and most of the POV wording removed. Protests against Leviev about this issue have garnered significant media attention and the facts are sourced to reputable newspapers; I think it's clear that the issue deserves inclusion. Whether the existing section, even cleaned up, is up to Wikipedia standards I don't know - but please edit it, rather than removing it. Kalkin (talk) 00:03, 21 February 2008 (UTC)