The ‘Sex and the City’ waspy star Kristin Davis was just dumped by Oxfam as a spokesperson for the human rights group due to her endorsement deal with an Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava.
It took some pressure by activists across North America and Europe to get Oxfam to see the hypocrisy in a human rights spokesperson also endorsing a company that belongs to an Apartheid regime.
Apparently, Davis had done her due diligence: “She also stressed her shared beliefs with Ahava in treating animals and the environment with respect.” The oppression of Palestinians and the confiscation of their human rights apparently did not make the agenda.
Ahava, famous for its Dead See mud products and their kiosks staffed by Mossad agents and from Israeli soldiers in your local mall, has a business model that relies primarily on stealing Palestinian resources and selling it for profit. The Israeli military establishment facilitates the operation and prevents the native population from reaching its natural resources, just like militias protect drug trafficking or blood diamond trade.
In any case, I’ve always been more of Samantha Jones fan myself, even thought Kerry sported the Kuffiyah.
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Ahava is not just any Israeli company, but one that actually benefits from the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Bravo
Posted by Arayus | August 6, 2009, 6:29 pmGood for Oxfam! Maybe this will help get the word out about Ahava as well?
Posted by Anon | August 6, 2009, 9:20 pmCarrie sported a kaffiyeh? I must have missed that. Unfortunately I didn't miss all the unrealistic portrayal of single women as independently wealthy slaves to fashion, who define themselves by the men they sleep with. That part I soaked up pretty well.
The #2 page that comes up if you google "Ahava boycott" is the talk back section of the Ynet article about Codepink and it's the most unbelievable sexist bullshit about how ugly the protesters were.
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/App/TalkBack/CdaViewO…
Posted by Courtney | August 6, 2009, 11:16 pmhuman rights group
I never heard of them, but the link you provided says they are an NGO that does humanitarian work. That's actually not the same thing as a "human rights group", you know. I just wanted to point that out to you, since we all know how much KABOBfesters care about human rights! And accuracy!
PS-Courtney, the Code Pink hags are hideous. How is it sexist to point that out? This is a group founded by and for female activists. They try to use their femininity to their advantage, so it isn't "sexist" to address their femininity. Or lack thereof! If they had some women in the group who weren't so butt ugly that little kids rund away screaming whenever they show up, they might be more effective, you know? But I suppose it's hard to find women with that kind of aggressive foaming at the mouth in your face hostile approach to everything who look like normal women, because if they looked like normal women they'd have other (and better) options, wouldn't they?
Now THAT was sexist. And you know what? I'm OK with that.
Posted by programmer craig | August 6, 2009, 11:37 pmAnd PS-If there was a group of male activists who marketed themselves as wise fatherly types (as these "ladies" in Code Pink try to market themselves as caring Moms) and they were all a bunch of fat asses in their 50s who'd been divorced numerous times, or involuntary bachelors, and they didn't bathe and they looked like homeless slobs, you don't think anyone would point that out? Seriously? I mean, lets get real here… those code pink women look like they are in a lot worse shape emotionally, physically and financially than the people whose cause they are claiming to advocate, don't you think?
Posted by programmer craig | August 6, 2009, 11:45 pmI see programmer craig has a massive amount of keen insight and intellect since he used up 80% of his space "proving" that these Code Pink activists are ugly. Code Pink isn't perfect by any means, but they are tireless. Their headline-grabbing tactics are highly questionable, but barely touching upon that and instead calling people hags for opposing a company that extracts from and profits from dispossessing indigenous people and bombing hospitals and schools…. Code Pink are average women, of various ages, sizes and shapes (though mostly white and middle-class). One thing I believe that doesn't register on their radar when it comes to getting attention is to be sex symbols. If the Left weren't so small and timid and liberalism hadn't practically collapsed so that people who are sort of the left have voluntarily enslaved by the Democratic Party, Code Pink could more easily be part of a wide range of actions and be part of a context. Instead, they are a bit voluntarist, but do get messages to corporate media consumers, even if they are delivered in an unsophisticated manner. But it seems much of the Left (or people who consider themselves responsible liberals) is much more obsessed with criticizing those who do act than they are with setting an example themselves. Hey, this is what we got and it's better than nothing. They crash hearings, which either wouldn't be important or would seem totally inadequate if the Left were organizationally much better equipped, bigger and focused on mass action. But jabs at their looks is EXACTLY what people like Bill O'Reilly resort to because they have no actual arguments, only their reactions.
Posted by Courtney | August 7, 2009, 2:39 amCode Pink isn't perfect by any means, but they are tireless.
No. US Marines are tireless. Code Pink operatives are batshit crazy.
Code Pink are average women, of various ages, sizes and shapes…
You have a much different opinion of "average" than I do
(though mostly white and middle-class).
I'd agree with mostly "white" but middle-class? Only if welfare = middle-class.
Posted by programmer craig | August 7, 2009, 1:31 pmPC, are you out on bail or something?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM…
Posted by Fayyad | August 7, 2009, 6:59 pmThat guy is dead, Fayyad. And are you trying to be funny? I went to LA Fitness yesterday (and mine is actually in LA!) and there were no women there. Thanks to this fucker, now I nothing to stare at while I'm working out except fat ass old guys.
Posted by programmer craig | August 7, 2009, 9:28 pmThank god for all women's gyms.
Posted by SanaKF | August 7, 2009, 9:38 pm"Only if welfare = middle class," "US Marines are tireless." What kind of looking glass do you see the world through and why do you read these articles? The first comment I quote makes zero sense to me. They're mostly middle class because the DC ones (I'm mostly talking about like Medea Benjamin) have the free time to protest hearings and the like. The Marines I respect are the kind that set up Iraq Veterans Against the War, who are now applying the values of hard work, determination and perseverance they learned to the pursuit of justice rather than following orders to kill "hajis."
And to add to the debate about which Sex & the City woman was the best. It's hard to say because like Seinfeld, they were all so relentlessly annoying it comes down to style and which one you can stand the most. The nice thing about Seinfeld is everyone knew and acknowledged they were all awful. I would have to go with Carrie, too (which is I believe the most common way of spelling the female version of that name, but alternate spellings are all the rage now, just not when her character would have been born). It's a bit mysterious how any of them made their money, except Samantha because you know they pay people like that crazy sums of money to produce endless streams of bullshit.
Posted by Courtney | August 9, 2009, 12:37 amWhat kind of looking glass do you see the world through and why do you read these articles?
A more mainstream one than yours, obviously, since you have a high opinion of people like "Code Pink", whereas the normal people you like to talk about consider to be the lunatic fringe.
The first comment I quote makes zero sense to me.
So says the woman who introduced Code Pink into a smartass post about Sex and the City…
…have the free time to protest hearings and the like.
Because they are on welfare. And I'm talking about the Berkeley ones. I didn't even know you had any in DC.
The Marines I respect are the kind that set up Iraq Veterans Against the War
The self-hating ones, you mean. Typical
Posted by programmer craig | August 9, 2009, 12:49 amAnd by the way, the Code Pink demonstrations in front of the USMC recruiting office in Berkeley were despicable. That behavior alone justifies any amount of verbal abuse directed at Code Pink, or their apologists. So don't come around here talking about which kind of Marines you "support". You don't even want to know what the average Marine thinks of you. Really, you don't.
Posted by programmer craig | August 9, 2009, 12:54 amHi Will,
Your readers will be interested in a short essay detailing the very close and changing relationship of the modern states of South Africa and Israel since 1948 when South Africa became an extreme racist state and the State of Israel was formed. The piece appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique. You need a password to read it, so on my blog I summarized the main points. Here:
http://africasacountry.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/s…
Posted by Sean | August 7, 2009, 3:47 amSamantha? What the shit, Fayyad? Uh, no, Kerri was definitely the best out of the group because she ended up with a guy who treated her like shit for so many seasons. And she had a column in which she wrote about it weekly.
My dream.
Posted by SanaKF | August 7, 2009, 4:03 amThose Code Pink protesters remind me of this
Posted by eagle007blogger | August 7, 2009, 7:39 amI agree with Fayyad on Samantha. She was the coolest of them. Kerry was pathetic, Miranda nauseating, and Charlotte too delicate. Samantha was the only one with pizzazz.
Posted by KABOBfestWill | August 7, 2009, 2:16 pmCause she drowned her fear of commitment and love in cold, hard sex?
For shame.
Posted by SanaKF | August 7, 2009, 9:28 pmI'm noooot a fan of the show, but seriously? you are a mean person Will
Posted by Amanda | August 11, 2009, 6:32 amAlso a Samantha fan.
By the way, I got accosted by an Israeli kiosk operative in the mall yesterday, selling…wait for it….RUSSIAN STACKING DOLLS! My mom stopped to look at the cute dolls, and all of a sudden "Which one you like? You want to buy? Here, I show you this one – it has THE BEATLES! Please, which one you want to buy?"
I at first took him for a Russian and almost felt a little sorry for him, until we walked past him again later and noticed he was now manning the Dead Sea kiosk (which will be the dead man kiosk if anyone from there ever grabs my arm and starts rubbing that nasty shit all over it again).
Posted by JillianKF | August 7, 2009, 3:18 pmYeah, Sana, don't be hating on a brother's taste… If it makes you feel any better, I was likened to Mr. Big a few times…
Posted by Fayyad | August 7, 2009, 6:58 pmAre you coming on to me?
Posted by SanaKF | August 7, 2009, 9:29 pmThat's how you interpreted it… I guess you are a masochist…:)
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