BOYCOTT ISRAEL:
BOYCOTT L'OREAL
DON’T DRESS UP ISRAELI APARTHEID AND OCCUPATION!!
Once again the “L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival” is about to hit the catwalks in Melbourne. While the media will focus on the glitz and glamour of fashion week, little will be said about L’Oreal’s not so glamorous support for Israeli apartheid and occupation.
Since the mid-1990s, L’Oreal has been operating in Israel, motivated in part by political consideration. L’Oreal Israel operates a factory in the Israeli town of Migdal Ha'emek in the Lower Galilee. The settlement of Migdal Ha'emek 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 Ha’emek 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 also manufacturers a line of products using Dead Sea minerals under the name "Natural Sea Beauty" that is exported to 22 countries. While L’Oreal exploits minerals from the Dead Sea, the region and its resources are systematically closed to the indigenous Palestinian people by Israel's military occupation and apartheid practices, which have set up a network of checkpoints, segregated roads and exclusive zones.
The chairman of L'Oreal Israel is Gad Propper who is the founding chairman of the Israel-EU Chamber of Commerce has been heavily involved in promoting trade between Israel and Australia and New Zealand.
For more information on why boycott Israel and L'Oreal visit: http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/231
Organised by the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (Melbourne)