Israel's Coalition of Women for Peace has called on US actress Susan Sarandon to publicly disavow connections with the businesses of Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev due to his companies' construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This follows similar requests to Sarandon by leading Palestinian civil society organizations, the Palestinian villages of Bil'in and Jayyous where Leviev is building settlements, the US group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and Adalah-NY. Sarandon had apparently crossed a picket line of human rights campaigners...to attend the...opening of the Madison Avenue LEVIEV New York store...According to Issa Mikel...[from] Adalah-NY, "All Israeli settlements violate international law..."