July
2005 |
Palestinian call for international boycott divestment
and sanctions (BDS) against Israel
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Sept.
2007 |
Sex & the City Star and Oxfam Ambassador Kristin
Davis signs on as Ahava spokeswoman
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Dec.
2009 |
Israel launches massive assault on the blockaded Gaza
Strip
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Jan.
2009 |
Blockade of Ahava store in Covent Garden, London, followed
by regular protest actions at the location
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February
2009 |
Valentines Day picket outside Ahava shop organised by
Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods (J-BIG). Monthly pickets
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March
2009 |
Ahava shop picketed by J-BIG and other activists.
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June
2009 |
First CODEPINK AHAVA protest at the Hilton Hotel in Tel
Aviv
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CODEPINK NYC delivers letter to Ahava Spokeswoman and
Oxfam Ambassador at Lord & Taylor
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CODEPINK NYC Ahava action at Tel Aviv Beach Party in
Central Park
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July
2009 |
Official launch of CODEPINK's "Stolen Beauty"
boycott campaign
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CODEPINK protest at Ahava booth at beauty convention
in Las Vegas
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French activists protest Ahava at Sephora store on the
Champs-Elysees, Paris
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CODEPINK protest action against Ahava in D.C.
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CODEPINK protest action against Ahava in Santa Monica
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Oxfam begins to send out statement that Kristin Davis
has been suspended from publicity work for the duration
of her Ahava contract
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August
2009 |
Article on Page 6 of the New York Post about Kristin
Davis, Oxfam and Ahava
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Store locator disappears from the Ahava U.S. web site
CODEPINK NYC stages protest at an independent pharmacy
and a Ricky's store
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CODEPINK LA protest at store results in promise from
owner not to re-stock Ahava products
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September
2009 |
Article on Gawker about Ahava and Kristin Davis not
renewing their endorsement contract
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CODEPINK Chicago protest at Nordstrom's Department store
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The Stolen Beauty campaign is endorsed by a unanimous
vote at the U.S. Campaign Against the Israeli Occupation
conference in Chicago
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CODEPINK Women for Peace signs the Boycott, Sanctions
& Divestment Movement's international call
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Women in Black/Vienna stage protest at U.N. commissary
that stocks Ahava products
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Second Ahava Blockade: Two activists lock themselves
inside Ahava shop in London's Covent Garden
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The Big Campaign stages protest at Ahava store in London;
protests on the same day in Amsterdam, Washington, D.C.,
and Los Angeles
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First Ahava International Day of Action. Campaigners
stage protests Sunday Times 'Style in the City' fashion
and beauty event in Birmingham leafleted and picketed
by West Midlands PSC.
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October
2009 |
CODEPINK joins the First Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
marathon in support of jailed Palestinian human rights
activist Mohammed Othman with a Stolen Beauty Action
in D.C.
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Tadamon in Canada joins the Stolen Beauty campaign with
store protest in Montreal
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CODEPINK activists continue delivering boycott letters
to store managers around the country
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November
2009 |
Dutch Foreign Ministry agrees to investigate AHAVA's
manufacturing and labeling practices
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December
2009 |
Palestinian Authority launches boycott campaign against
Israeli settlement companies by confiscating and destroying
products including AHAVA Cosmetics.
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Third blockade of the Covent Garden Ahava shop in London.
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January
2010 |
Business and Human Rights Centre (London) disseminates
"The Case Against AHAVA"
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Facebook campaign succeeds in securing confirmation
from Costco that they will no longer carry AHAVA products
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British MP denounces Ahava's fraudulent labeling practices
during debate in Parliament on Israeli "settlement
products"
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February
2010 |
EU court in Brussels rules that products from Israel's
settlements in the West Bank are not Israeli and therefore
are not covered by trade agreements between EU &
Israel
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March
2010 |
March 30 International BDS Day of Action: AHAVA protests
in NYC, D.C., Chicago, Montreal, Austin, Los Angeles,
San Francisco
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Campaigners start holding Saturday demonstrations every
two weeks outside the UK's only Ahava shop in Covent
Garden
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A grassroots coalition of activists propose holding
demonstrations every two weeks outside the UK's only
Ahava shop in response to an appeal from the Palestinian
village of Bil'in.
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First regular fortnightly demo outside the Ahava shop
attracts about 30 protestors and forces the shop to
close early.
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May
2010 |
The Palestinian Authority upgrades its boycott campaign
against Israeli settlement products by sending volunteers
throughout the West Bank to distribute a pamphlet describing
targeted companies, including AHAVA
French-based Coordination des Appels pour une Paix Juste
au Proche Orient (CAPJPO) files suit against Sephora
for carrying AHAVA products
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July
2010 |
First AHAVA protest in Brooklyn at Ricky's NYC on Montague
Street organized by Brooklyn for Peace, in collaboration
with CODEPINK NYC & Adalah-NY; several Brooklyn
synagogues and Jewish community groups organize a "buycott"
in response.
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Launch of Czech Ahava boycott in by ISM-Czech Republic
CODEPINK AHAVA boycott activists go to Cosmoprof Convention
in Las Vegas for the second year in a row to confront
AHAVA staff at their booth.
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August
2010 |
Trial of four London activists, all charged with aggravated
trespass, who shut down the Ahava shop in Covent Garden.
All four are acquitted.
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September
2010 |
Stolen Beauty Campaign responds to Ahava CEO Yaakov
Ellis' letter to retailers
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Brooklyn for Peace replies to 7 Brooklyn Rabbis' Denunciatory
Letter about the boycott campaign
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October
2010 |
Stolen Beauty Campaign is presented at a workshop on
commercial boycott at the BDS Quebec Conference in Montreal
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Fourth Ahava Blockade at Covent Garden shop results
in arrest of two activists
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The Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) votes to boycott Ahava Cosmetics and
two other Israeli settlement products
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Boycott campaigners demonstrate, leaflet and speak to
visitors at the Professional Beauty show in Manchester
where Ahava is exhibiting in the UK
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www.goo.gl/Nh3EA
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November
2010 |
Ahava in the dock at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
London Session; the company is found to be complicit
with Israel's violations of international law
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Fifth Ahava Blockade at Covent Garden Shop results in
arrest of two activists
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Video of London 11/22/10 protest & arrests
Ahava protest at ULTA store in Colorado Springs results
in two arrests
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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian
People (Nov. 29) Ahava protest actions from Amsterdam
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1W3SCuxJH8),
London, and Capetown to Seattle, Brooklyn and Los Angeles
In Cape Town, South Africa, Charges Filed Against Wellness
Warehouse & SDV Pharmaceuticals for carrying Ahava
products
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Zionist Federation-sponsored Ahava BUYcott fails as
the English Defence League's "Jewish Division"
announce they will also attend and activists allegedly
glue the shop's locks, thus delaying its opening.
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Ahava in the dock at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
London Session. CODEPINK's Nancy Kricorian and Rae Abileah
testify against the company. Ahava is found to be complicit
in Israel's violations of international law.
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Fifth Ahava occupation/lock-on during the last day of
the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Ahava shop forced
to close and two activists arrested. American CODEPINK
activists, Nancy Kricorian and Rae Abileah also present.
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December
2010 |
Boycott campaigners gather almost daily outside Ahava
and influence shoppers in the run up to Christmas.
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Ahava employee calls a Jewish boycott campaigner a Christ
killer. Zionists defend anti-Semitic comment.
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In response to Ahava's Christmas Gifts of Love holiday
line the Stolen Beauty campaign organizes holiday caroling
actions to let consumers know there is know love in
occupation.
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January
2011 |
Canadian
retailer The Bay confirms having dropped Ahava from sales
inventory. The Bay CEO releases a joint statement with
the Canada Israel Committee and the UJA Federation of
Greater Toronto claiming the chain had dropped Ahava because
of declining sales, not because of the boycott
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UK retailer
John Lewis confirms having dropped Ahava from sales
inventory
UK retailer John Lewis claims Ahava dropped because
of "sales performance" of the products, not
the boycott
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February
2011 |
Stolen Beauty
actions are organized in Washington, D.C., New York
City, San Francisco and Los Angeles: store protest and
online action parties are dedicated to the memory of
Jawaher Abu Rahmah, who was killed by tear gas at an
anti-wall demonstration in the village of Bil'in
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A Valentine
for Ahava in London, dedicated to the memory of Jawaher
Abu Rahmah who was killed by tear gas while a bystander
at an anti-wall demonstration in Bil'in
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Ahava IS BAD
FOR BUSINESS at Professional Beauty 2011, London where
activists hand out anti-Ahava leaflets at ExCel Center
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March
2011 |
CODEPINK's
Jodie Evans stages protests at the Ahava stand at Natural
Products Exp West in Anaheim, California
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The National
Cathedral Gift Shop in Washington, D.C. confirms it
is no longer stocking Ahava due to customer complaints
Landlord declines
to renew the lease of Ahava's flagship store in Covent
Garden, London. This is a victory for London BDS activists
who have been holding bi-weekly protests outside the
store for two years
Czech Activists
picket Ahava store
March 30 Land
Day BDS Actions by Stolen Beauty supporters, including
store protests in Los Angeles, New York, and D.C., plus
a visit to Ulta Headquarters by activists in Chicago
- http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/la-doa-6397
- http://www.bdsmovement.net/2011/chicago-activists-pay-ulta-corporate-headquarters-a-visit-6498
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April
2011 |
London BDS
holds an “Ahava leaving party” outside Ahava shop on
Monmouth Street, Covent Garden
Ahava 4 convicted
of trespass in London
British Quakers
announce boycott of settlement products, including Ahava
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May
2011 |
Bt'selem releases
major report on Dispossession and Exploitation in the
Jordan Valley and Northern Dead Sea, and calls out Ahava
as an occupation profiteer
Who Profits
receives documentation from the Israeli Civil Administration
confirming an active mud excavation site exploited by
Ahava on the occupied shores of the Dead Sea
Stolen Beauty
boycott culture jam turns Birchbox/Ahava Twitter contest
into a social media fail
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June
2011 |
Open Shuhada
Street pickets Wellness Warehouse for carrying Ahava
The Holy Land
Awareness and Action Task Group, of the Social Justice
and World Affairs Committee within South West Presbytery
of the United Church of Canada launches campaign against
occupation profiteers, including Ahava
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September
2011 |
Ahava's flagship
London store closes for business after months of bi-weekly
protests
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November
2011 |
King's College
Student Council votes to condemn the university's involvement
in an E.U. funded research project that includes Ahava
National Union of Students (NUS) in the U.K. votes
to condemn research collaboration between King's College
London and Ahava
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December
2011 |
In Marin County,
California BDS Brides protest at Bed, Bath & Beyond,
calling on the retailer to drop illegal settlement products
by Ahava and SodaStream. The BRIDES BOYCOTT AHAVA &
SODASTREAM YouTube video receives over 40,000 hits.
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January
2012 |
Letter from
Prominent UK scientists and intellectuals calling on
Natural History Museum to end research collaboration
with Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories results in a week of
terrible press for Ahava.
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February
2012 |
Major Norwegian
retailer Vita drops Ahava cosmetics
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April
2012 |
Ahava's Japanese
agent discontinues distributing the product line after
learning of the company's illegal practices
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May
2012 |
United Methodists
vote to boycott Ahava settlement goods
South African
Minister of Trade and Industry announces new labeling
rules for Israeli settlement goods. Ahava is specified
by name as not deserving of a “Made in Israel” label.
Swiss Chain
Migros decides to label Israeli settlement goods as
products of the Occupied Territories
Major new Who
Profits Report on Ahava: Tracking the Trade Trail of
Settlement Products
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June
2012 |
Increasing
numbers of Israeli Jews speak out in support of proper
labeling and boycott of settlement goods, including
former Knesset member Avraham Berg and former Israeli
Ambassador Alon Liel
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July
2012 |
U.S. Presbyterians
vote to boycott Ahava and all Israeli settlement goods
Prominent U.K.
jurist says trade ban of Israeli settlement products,
including Ahava, is legal
Abigail Disney
renounces her share of Shamrock Holdings' investment
in Ahava
New edition
of The Lonely Planet Guide to Israel and the Palestinian
Territories is published, and the Ahava Visitors
Center is no longer on the list of recommended places
to visit in the Dead Sea region.
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September
2012 |
Major new report
from Al Haq: Israel's Unlawful Exploitation of Occupied
Natural Resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
(focus on Ahava's pillage of mud)
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October
2012 |
Settlement
labeling controversy heats up in South Africa, with
Ahava serving as poster child
Major new report
from 22 NGO's: Trading Away Peace ~ How Europe Helps
Sustain Israel's Illegal Settlements (Ahava features
prominently)
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