Sunday, October 3, 2010

(NEWS) Boycott Turns Into ‘Buycott’ For West Bank Lotions

"Controversy sells — and in Brooklyn Heights, it’s also good for the skin.

Local Jewish leaders and anti-Israel protesters faced off on Montague Street — again — on Tuesday, holding a raucous debate over whether West Bank-made lotions sold at Ricky’s cosmetics shop support Israel’s 'illegal' occupation of the embattled region.

Not that there was any actual 'debate,' of course, just shouting across the sidewalk, as those who called for a boycott of Israeli-manufactured Ahava cosmetics and purchasers of said projects faced off for the second time in as many months."












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