Thank You for Dropping Ahava Products!

In January, 2011, we learned that The Bay, a major Canadian department store, discontinued sales of Ahava products. Canadian human rights activists, including our allies at Tadamon!, have had a campaign to ask The Bay to stop selling Ahava. Please join us in thanking The Bay for dropping Ahava. Your message of thanks is crucial as right-wing pro-occupation groups berate and pressure The Bay to reinstate sales of Ahava. Click to send your letter below now!

Subject: Thank you for no longer carrying Ahava products

Dear Chairman Baker, President and CEO Brooks, and Director Rozenwald,

Thank you for no longer carrying Ahava products. Whatever your reasons, your actions support human rights everywhere.

Ahava's products are manufactured in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Ahava is co-owned by two illegal settlements, Mitzpe Shalem and Kahlia, which are subsidized by the company's profits. Ahava cosmetics are labeled 'Products of Israel' when in fact they are made in the West Bank.

The Dutch Foreign Minister has called for an investigation into Ahava; A British Minister of Parliament recently denounced Ahvava's labeling practices as "fraudulent"; and the European Union recently handed down a decision that settlement products, such as Ahava, are not covered by trade agreements between the E.U. and Israel.

According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, already 42% of the West Bank is consumed by the illegal settlement network, making a viable Palestinian state impossible. The settlements, including Mitzpe Shalem where Ahava is manufactured, are an impediment to peace.

So thank you for standing up for human rights and international law. We applaud you!

Sincerely,

Dear Chairman Baker, President and CEO Brooks, and Director Rozenwald,

Thank you for no longer carrying Ahava products. Whatever your reasons, your actions support human rights everywhere.

Ahava's products are manufactured in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank.  Ahava is co-owned by two illegal settlements, Mitzpe Shalem and Kahlia, which are subsidized by the company's profits.  Ahava cosmetics are labeled 'Products of Israel' when in fact they are made in the West Bank.

The Dutch Foreign Minister has called for an investigation into Ahava; A British Minister of Parliament recently denounced Ahvava's labeling practices as "fraudulent"; and the European Union recently handed down a decision that settlement products, such as Ahava, are not covered by trade agreements between the E.U. and Israel.

According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, already 42% of the West Bank is consumed by the illegal settlement network, making a viable Palestinian state impossible.  The settlements, including Mitzpe Shalem where Ahava is manufactured, are an impediment to peace.

So thank you for standing up for human rights and international law.  We applaud you!

Sincerely,

Richard Baker

The Hudson’s Bay Company
P.O. Box 223
Scarborough, ON M1K5C1
CA

Bonnie Brooks

The Hudson’s Bay Company
P.O. Box 223
Scarborough, ON M1K5C1
CA

Shelley Rozenwald

The Hudson’s Bay Company
P.O. Box 223
Scarborough, ON M1K5C1
CA

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