Excerpt from speech by Dr. Phillis Starkey, Minister of Parliament, made on 1/27/10 regarding labeling of Israeli settlement products. This section focuses on AHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories. Full transcript of the day’s debates in Parliament available here. The text below comes from a marginally edited version posted by the U.K. site Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Excerpt: I [...]
Monday, January 18, 2010
In mid-December Rula Borelli, prompted by a friend who brought her attention to the fact that AHAVA products were on sale at Costco, sent a letter to the company asking them to remove AHAVA from their shelves, explaining about AHAVA’s illegal practices and the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign against them. Borelli then started a Facebook [...]
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Here is a letter that Fortune Small Business didn’t publish…. To the Editor of Fortune Small Business, In her article “Turning Dead Sea Mud Into Money” (12/10/09), Michal Lev-Ram states, “…Ahava won’t say whether its merchandise has ever been officially boycotted in the U.S.” While Ahava may not have wanted to answer Ms. Lev-Ram’s question, by putting [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
Ahava Drops Spokesperson Amid Public Relations Fiasco A first victory for CODEPINK’s “Stolen Beauty” campaign NEW YORK CITY — The Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava, which illegally manufactures and appropriates its products in occupied Palestinian territory, has dropped its spokesperson Kristin Davis amid a public relations debacle sparked by the peace group CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty campaign. As Gawker.com first [...]
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Real News just published this compelling 10-min. clip detailing the purpose and history of current efforts to boycott Israeli products, how it relates to the international boycott of South Africa in the late ’80s during its apartheid, and CODEPINK’s new “Stolen Beauty” boycott campaign of the Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava. It’s especially interesting to those [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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