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BOYCOTT L’OREAL
Global brand that profits
from Israeli apartheid
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L’Oreal’s operations in Israel began in the mid-1990s with its subsidiary company L’Oreal Israel operating a factory in the Israeli town of Migdal Haemek in the Lower Galilee. The settlement of Migdal Haemek was established in 1952 on lands belonging to the ethnically-cleansed Palestinian village of al-Mujaydil, whose original inhabitants are still denied the right to return to their homes. Like almost all other Jewish settlements built in the midst of Palestinian villages in the Galilee, inside Israel, Migdal Haemek discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel, denying them the right to buy, rent or live on any part of the town, simply because they are “non-Jews.”
L’Oreal Israel manufacturers a line of products using Dead Sea minerals under the name “Natural Sea Beauty” that is exported to 22 countries. It should be noted that one-third of the western shore of the Dead Sea lies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While the entire shore and its resources are systematically closed to Palestinians by Israeli military occupation and apartheid practices, Israel exploits the Dead Sea for international tourism, mining and improving its image.
L’Oreal should be a target of the academic campaign, because: “L’Oreal awarded a $100,000 “lifetime achievement” award to a scientist at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science in July 2008. The Weizmann Institute, since its establishment, has been a major center for clandestine research and development of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on behalf of Israel’s military establishment with which it has close ties.
According to L’Oreal’s Sustainable Development Report for 2007, L’Oreal partners with UNESCO, supporting women in science and a “Hairdressers Against AIDS” project. UNESCO, as an organ of the United Nations, is committed to international law and UN resolutions opposing Israeli settlements, demanding an end to Israeli military occupation, and supporting Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homes. L’Oreal states that it strives to be free from violations of human rights, and L’Oreal has been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2003. In 2002, The Body Shop gave a human rights award to a Palestinian Israeli non-profit that advocates for internally displaced refugees in Israel and for the right of return of refugees. Ironically, they are now owned by L’Oreal, that has a factory on a cleansed village.
Its chairman Gad Propper has been heavily involved in promoting trade between Israel and Australia. L’Oreal’s cosmetic subsidiaries are listed below and should also be boycotted.
Helena Rubinstein
Garnier
Maybelline
Redken
Lancome
Ralph Lauren
Biotherm
Vichy
La Roche-Posay
Giorgio Armani
The Body Shop
“L’Oreal Israel manufacturers a line of products using Dead Sea minerals under the name “Natural Sea Beauty” that is exported to 22 countries. It should be noted that one-third of the western shore of the Dead Sea lies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While the entire shore and its resources are systematically closed to Palestinians by Israeli military occupation and apartheid practices, Israel exploits the Dead Sea for international tourism, mining and improving its image.”
The BNC says that L’Oreal should be a target of the academic campaign, because: “L’Oreal awarded a $100,000 “lifetime achievement” award to a scientist at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science in July 2008. The Weizmann Institute, since its establishment, has been a major center for clandestine research and development of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on behalf of Israel’s military establishment with which it has close ties.”
According to L’Oreal’s Sustainable Development Report for 2007, L’Oreal partners with UNESCO, supporting women in science and a “Hairdressers Against AIDS” project. UNESCO, as an organ of the United Nations, is committed to international law and UN resolutions opposing Israeli settlements, demanding an end to Israeli military occupation, and supporting Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homes. L’Oreal states that it strives to be free from violations of human rights, and L’Oreal has been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2003. In 2002, The Body Shop gave a human rights award to a Palestinian Israeli non-profit that advocates for internally displaced refugees in Israel and for the right of return of refugees. Ironically, they are now owned by L’Oreal, that has a factory on a cleansed village.