Nordstrom promotes itself as a socially responsible company that supports “quality business principles” but is it really socially responsible when it profits by selling AHAVA products that are made from stolen resources in a factory on occupied land? Confronting Nordstrom’s support and sale of AHAVA products is our current action to “boycott, divest and sanction” [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
Friday, August 28, 2009
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