Celebrities further disassociate with settlement financier

Additionally, during the past year the UN children's agency UNICEF and the Oxfam coalition have renounced Leviev, major Hollywood stars have distanced themselves from him, and the governments of United Kingdom and Dubai are under pressure to boycott Leviev's businesses.

The carolers, from the New York-based human rights coalition Adalah-NY and other groups, were accompanied in singing and chanting by a percussion section from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. Hundreds of copies of the comic "Who is Lev Leviev?" were given to passersby, many of whom stopped to hear the parody holiday songs while carrying shopping bags from Madison Avenue's most exclusive shops.

The most vigorously sung of today's eleven parody holiday carols included the following refrain, to the tune of "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel:"

Oh, boycott, boycott, boycott, don't buy Leviev today;
Funds crimes with all those profits, who needs diamonds anyway.

The carolers noted that their musical wish for Leviev, first expressed a year ago during holiday caroling, had been granted, as they again sang to the tune of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas:"

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