From ABC Radio in Australia.

On Saturday, 19th September, activists around the world held protests and actions against Ahava skin care products. The shop in London's Covent Garden was picketed by about 30 protestors. The day before the shop was occupied for nearly six hours. Actions also took place in Washington DC and Amsterdam.

The movement to boycott Israelis becoming respectable. In Europe and America as well as in the Middle East and many parts of the developing world, people of conscience –

including many Jews - are rejecting anti-Arab prejudice and Zionist mythology and seeing Israel for what it is – an ethnocentric state which deserves to be ostracised.

16th July 2009, Paris.

Real News 10-minute video on Ahava and Code pink.

NEW YORK CITY — "Sex & The City" star Kristin Davis, well known for her work as a goodwill ambassador of international human rights organization Oxfam and for her lucrative spokesperson job for Israeli cosmetics company Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, has been suspended from all publicity work by Oxfam for the duration of her contract with Ahava.

Israel enjoys free trade of industrial goods with Europe under the Association Agreement it signed with the European Union in 2000. Yakov Ellis, chief executive officer of the Israeli cosmetics company Ahava, told the BBC radio program Today on 5 November 2008 that his company has benefitted from the free trade with the EU.

Codepink, A US peace group, is launching a boycott campaign against Ahava.