Kristin Davis, who starred in the long-running HBO hit drama Sex and the City, is reportedly the subject of a controversy involving her association with an Israeli cosmetics company whose headquarters are situated in the West Bank.
According to a report in Thursday's New York Post, Davis - who portrayed the character Charlotte on the successful cable comedy - will no longer serve as a spokeswoman for Oxfam International because the human rights group objects to her endorsement deal with Ahava, a popular cosmetics firm that operates out of the Israeli settlement of Mitzpe Shalem.
Oxfam says Davis' arrangement with Ahava is problematic due to the fact that Mitzpe Shalem is "disputed" territory, according to the New York Post report.
"This has been a huge thing," a source told the Post. "Ahava has factories on disputed land. From Ahava's perspective, they are not doing anything wrong. From an Oxfam perspective, Ahava is a polarizing company and Kristin shouldn't be involved with it."
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105771.htmlBackground by Code Pink’s Nancy Kricorian:
Ahava promises “Beauty Secrets from the Dead Sea.” And wait until you hear those secrets!
Because Ahava is hiding the ugly truth—its products actually come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the Occupied Territory of the Palestinian West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem.
http://www.stolenbeauty.org/article.php?id=4951
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