June
14, 2009:
Educating the NYC Public!
On the sands of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism's
Tel Aviv Beach, bikini-clad CODEPINK
activists covered themselves in mud to expose Israel's
dirty occupation of Palestine. The beach event
aims to boost U.S. tourism to Israel and clean up Israel’s
image just months after its devastating 22-day assault
on Gaza that killed more than 1,400 Gazans, injured
5,300, destroyed approximately 4,000 homes and displaced
50,000 people into temporary U.N. shelters.
The bikini-clad CODEPINK
women distributed info exposing Israeli Dead Sea cosmetics
company AHAVA, which uses mud illegally extracted from
and packaged in the Occupied Territories. "Despite
its name, (Ahava means "love" in Hebrew),
there is nothing loving about a company that profits
from stolen resources and oppressed people,” says
CODEPINK coodinator Rae
Abileah who organized a protest of AHAVA in Tel Aviv
last week.“We will paint ourselves with mud
to expose the dirty practices of AHAVA and the Israeli
government.”
From
Fox News:
Bikini-Clad
Activists Crash Tel Aviv Beach Party, by Erica Emmich,
June 21, 2009
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