Adalah-NY:
The New York Campaign for Boycott of Israel
August 4, New York, NY—Executives at O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, refused yesterday to receive a small delegation of human rights advocates at O’s headquarters at the Hearst Corporation’s office in Manhattan. The delegation was bearing a letter signed by over 5600 people calling on Ms. Winfrey to publicly distance herself from the companies of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. Executives from O apparently then phoned the Hearst Corporation mailroom and ordered staff to refuse to even accept the letter detailing Leviev’s companies’ involvement in serious human rights abuses in Angola and Palestine. As a result, the visitors held a small protest, holding signs and distributing flyers to passersby in front of the Hearst Corporation’s Manhattan office.
Ms. Winfrey wore Leviev diamonds on the cover of the May 2015, 15th anniversary issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, despite an international boycott of Leviev’s companies that has gained steam since 2008. Among those who have severed ties with Leviev’s companies over their human rights abuses are UNICEF, Oxfam America, the British and Norwegian governments, and New Zealand’s pension fund.
Mindy Gershon, one member of the delegation that visited O, explained, “In early June O staff expressed concern about the human rights issues raised in our letter. Yet today O staff went to great lengths to avoid any contact with people concerned about Oprah’s public endorsement of companies involved in human rights abuses in the diamond industry in Angola and the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestine. But we’re determined to ensure that Oprah Winfrey knows that thousands of human rights supporters oppose what she did, and to ensure that she does the right thing and renounces the companies of Lev Leviev.”
The letter asking Ms. Winfrey to renounce Leviev, originally signed by nine organizations and 34 individuals from the US, Palestine, Israel and South Africa, was initially sent to O and the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in late May. Commenting on the fact that Ms. Winfrey was featured wearing Leviev diamonds, the letter noted, “We fear that this publicity conveys to your peers and to the public your implicit endorsement and promotion of Leviev’s companies.” Ms. Winfrey appears to be the first major celebrity to wear Leviev diamonds since embarrassing incidents involving celebrities wearing tainted Leviev diamonds in 2008. The photo of Ms. Winfrey wearing Leviev’s diamonds was picked up by E!Online and Huffington Post.
The letter lauded Ms. Winfrey’s “commitment to racial, social and economic justice in the United States and worldwide,” but noted that the Leviev diamonds she wore may well have been from Angola. Local security companies employed by Leviev in Angola have been credibly accused by one of Angola’s most courageous human rights activists, Rafael Marques de Morais, of committing brutal human rights abuses. In 2014, Mr. Marques de Morais documented another case of brutality by the security company working for Leviev. Other Leviev companies have built thousands of Israeli settlement homes on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in violation of international law.
Sharif Omar from the Land Defense Committee of the West Bank Palestinian village of Jayyous explained, “Since the 1990s Leviev’s company Leader Management and Development has been stealing the land of farmers from my village, Jayyous, to build the Israeli settlement of Zufim. Even today we are fighting in court against the expansion of Zufim on our land. Though the ownership of Leader Management and Development has been hidden over the last year, we from Jayyous call on Oprah Winfrey not to endorse a man who has been responsible for taking over our village’s agricultural land for many years.”
In June, Chelsea Hettrick, Communications Director at OWN, told an Adalah-NY representative that Ms. Winfrey was reviewing the letter, and that Ms. Winfrey’s team would respond soon. However, Ms. Hettrick failed to reply to further calls and emails. Adalah-NY then made the letter public, and it has since garnered 5600 more signatures.
Original signers of the letter included Palestinian and Israeli groups supporting a boycott of Israel, the Dream Defenders, CODEPINK Women for Peace, a South African Jewish group, and a number of African American professors and activists.
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No soul Oprah.
Of course. Ms Winfrey, the worlds most overrated celebrity ,owes her multi billionaire career to the Jews.
Her self aggrandizing program ,which sent the message to every coach potato dummy in the US,that,’you can be me,’ was loaded with Jew worship, and Jew sponsorship.
Of course Ms Winfrey’s ongoing productions named, “Harpo”, for one of the Jew Marx Brothers, and her other endeavors could not survive without Jews.
One not forget she was part if the Holohoax publicity machine.
Her program loaded with the nonsense ,like the women who threw food over the fence to her future husband, and the one , ‘raised with wolves’.
Ms Winfrey never apologized for these proven cons, her gullible audience ate up.
The people most exploited by the world of diamonds,controlled 100 % by Rothschild’s Debeers ,withthis dirty Jew Lirviv a big time front, are Africans.
But Ms Winfrey prefers her Jewish masters to them.
can’t see why this creature is so highly paid and as Dante Ardenz said, “the world’s most overrated celebrity.” How the iq of americans have dropped by double digit points these past decades.oprah projects the feel-good effect that a lot of people are attracted to. so sleek and so jew like. really the opposite of what unnamed and unheralded true heroes do who give their whole wealth, heart and soul on a daily basis to help the downtrodden. oprah is a fake and a shallow ugly bitch inside and out
I didn’t know any thing about Oprah, I thought she was Jewish because that is all she does, to kiss Jewish asses. And you all said: Its hard to believe that the American public has fallen so deep down to the garbage is presented in those programs. The IQ of people has fallen down to dangerous levels.
Lev Leviev Diamonds was consistently ranked Israel’s No.1 diamond exporter up until 2010 after which the company refused to allow their figures to be published. The diamond industry in Israel is a major source of funding ($1 billion/yr.) for the Israeli military which is guilty of gross human rights violations – war crimes according to the UN Human Rights Council, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Diamonds that fund war crimes are blood diamonds.
When Oprah wears blood diamonds from Israel she turns a blind eye to the suffering and hardship of the 1.8 million people trapped in the besieged Gaza strip where Israeli forces killed over 2200 people including over 550 children in 2014. Thousands more were injured and maimed for life. The destruction of vital infrastructure and homes was unprecedented even by Israel’s infamous record.
There can never be any excuse for flaunting Israeli blood diamonds and the refusal of Oprah to disassociate herself from Leviev diamonds clearly demonstrates where her priorities lie and it’s certainly not with the oppressed and defenseless.
Diamonds aren’t glamorous when soaked in the blood of innocent children – Oprah knows this.
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