Setting the Record Straight
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Around the first anniversary of the Stolen
Beauty Ahava boycott campaign, the long-expected pushback
from Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories and anti-boycott groups
began in earnest. Ahava CEO Yaakov Ellis circulated a
letter to the company's retail partners that was
full of false claims about boycott supporters and dubious
reasoning about the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Soon
thereafter, in response to the first Ahava boycott protest
in Brooklyn organized by Brooklyn for Peace on July 9,
2010, seven rabbis placed an open letter in a local paper
decrying the boycott and calling on supporters of Israel
to launch a “buycott.”
As our international boycott campaign continues
to grow in size and influence, we expect that these
types of attacks will increase. We
are therefore devoting this “Setting the Record
Straight” section of the Stolen Beauty site to
our reasoned and researched responses to false claims
made by Ahava and its factually challenged supporters.
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