This Wednesday, May 11 and Thursday, May 12, Birchbox.com is sponsoring an Ahava Twitter contest. They are calling on people to Tweet skincare question with the hashtag #AHAVAreborn. People who Tweet using that hashtag – part of Ahava’s REBRANDING campaign –will be entered into the contest and given a chance to win $300 worth of Mineral Magical Skincare. (See details below by clicking on the link.)

AHAVA Twitter Contest! Win $300 Worth of Mineral Magical Skincare

http://blog.birchbox.com/post/5243881997/ahava-twitter-contest-win-300-worth-of-mineral

We are asking Ahava boycott supporters to use the hashtags #AHAVAreborn & #stolenbeauty on Wednesday & Thursday to help get out the word about Ahava’s illegal practices and its occupation profiteering. PLEASE TWEET OFTEN. PLEASE SHARE THIS ACTION ALERT WITH YOUR FRIENDS.

Suggested sample tweets are below. You can CUT & PASTE, or write your own. Make sure you include the #hasthags #Ahavareborn & #stolenbeauty. If you click on the j.mp link below the sample Tweets, they will click to Tweet.

Thanks for helping to take the profit out of occupation.

The Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott team

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QUESTIONS WITH LINKS TO STOLEN BEAUTY FACTS & PRESS CLIPS

@birchbox Why are you selling cosmetics made on stolen land? See map http://bit.ly/jpOv9f #AhavaReborn #StolenBeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/ksKRaI

How is Ahava complicit in the sins of occupation? http://bit.ly/ag6cTX #AhavaReborn #StolenBeauty #BDS @birchbox

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/la7bhz

Why is there a boycott campaign against Ahava? http://bit.ly/j5Xg92 #AhavaReborn #StolenBeauty #BDS

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/m6NJJC

Why have 10 rabbis signed onto a boycott against Ahava cosmetics? http://bit.ly/jHHts2 #AhavaReborn #StolenBeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/jJQewW

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QUESTIONS:

#AhavaReborn What’s pretty about occupation profiteering? Don’t buy Ahava’s #stolenbeauty #BDS www.stolenbeauty.org

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/m8HKJ5

@birchbox Why are Ahava products made in a factory on stolen land? That’s ugly. #AhavaReborn #stolenbeauty. #BDS

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/kXhPQI

#AhavaReborn Ahava means love in Hebrew, but what’s loving about #stolenbeauty? www.stolenbeauty.org #BDS

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/iyll3U

@birchbox Why is Ahava’s factory & visitors center in an illegal Israeli settlement? #Ahavareborn #stolenbeauty #BDS

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/kkuvNp

Why do Ahava’s profits subsidize two illegal Israeli settlements? That’s ugly. #Ahavareborn #stolenbeauty @birchbox #BDS

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/iALBmL

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MORE TWEETS:

#AHAVAreborn – new sheepskin, same wolf. Don’t Buy Occupation profiteering. #stolenbeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/ixU2Os

#AHAVAreborn – new label, same illegal Israeli settlement goods #stolenbeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/lcKXa1

#AHAVAreborn is a Pandora’s Box of illegal activity – don’t buy it @BirchBox #stolenbeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/jb4jhE

Even Mineral Magic can’t hide @AHAVA_US origins: Illegal Israeli Settlement #AHAVAreborn #bds #stolenbeauty

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/mlM2QP

#AHAVAreborn contest promises $300 of #stolenbeauty – Occupation Isn’t Pretty! www.stolenbeauty.org

Click to tweet it: http://j.mp/iRbUle

“We are here to tell Ahava, which claims to be devoted to beauty and purity, that you cannot cover up occupation and violation of international law,” said Paris Marron, CODEPINK’s national online organizer. “We call on Ahava to come clean.”

The action, which follows four others in Israel and New York of the past two months, is part of CODEPINK’s “Stolen Beauty” boycott campaign against the Israeli company — which sells its products in upscale shops, spas and salons worldwide — designed to pressure the company to end its illegal practices and pressure Israel to end its violations of international law against Palestine and its people. CODEPINK also plans to educate consumers about Ahava’s dirty secrets and encourage consumers to boycott Ahava products.

CODEPINK recently sent a fact-finding mission to the Ahava headquarters in the Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the Occupied West Bank. What they found made their skin crawl.

“Its products produced in the Occupied West Bank are labeled of ‘Israeli origin’ even though, according to international law including the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions, the West Bank cannot be considered to be part of the State of Israel,” said Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder. “The company also exploits occupied natural resources for profit, which is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”

Ahava does its best to hide its dirt, even hiring Oxfam Ambassador and ‘Sex and the City’ star Kristin Davis as its spokesperson.

Stolen Beauty’ is CODEPINK’s contribution to the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement against institutions and corporations that give tacit or material support to the Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territory, designed to pressure the Israeli government to end the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Conditions there have since worsened because of Israel’s 21-month blockade of Gazan borders, Israel’s continued demolition of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, and land appropriations and violent repression in the West Bank.

For more information and exact schedule, please call Jodie Evans, CODEPINK co-founder, at 310-621-5635.