-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:34:35 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder ----- Original Message ----- From: "amjerusalem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:56 PM Subject: [jerusalem-net] AMJ's Press Conference on Estee Lauder Boycott In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful American Muslims for Jerusalem 208 G Street, NE Suite 100 Washington, DC 20002 Phone: (202) 548-4200 Fax: (202) 548-4201 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org AMJ holds Press Conference to Announce Estee Lauder Boycott On Wednesday, February 28, American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ) lead a coalition of advocacy organizations in a press conference calling for a worldwide boycott of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder. That announcement was prompted by Estée Lauder International Chairman Ronald Lauder's activities in support of Israeli right-wing extremists. Estee Lauders products include: Estee Lauder line of perfume and make-up, Aramis, Clinique, Aveda, DKNY and Tommy Hilfegere toiletries products. Estee Lauder also owns several lines of hair and skin care products and shops such as M.A.C. and Origins. Ronald Lauder is the Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and President of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). JNF is a quasi-government agency whose main function is to legitimize Israeli's theft of Palestinian land. In January, Lauder was the key speaker from the US at a rally in Jerusalem, organized by right wing Israeli politician Natan Sharansky. The rally was organized to oppose the mere consideration of Jerusalem as a negotiation item. Lauder addressed 300,000 Israeli extremists at the gates of Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary, one of Islam's three holiest sites). Some of the protesters tried to break into the holy site. Khalid Turaani, AMJ's Executive Director said "this boycott of Estee Lauder will send a clear message that people of conscience refuse to do business with corporations supporting Israeli apartheid policies which violate internationally-recognized human rights". In 1993, Lauder co-founded a think tank called the Shalem Center with Yoram Hazony, a former Netanyahu aid. The Israeli Education Ministry has said the center is "a research institute whose leanings are extreme right-wing and even fascistic." Hebrew University professor Yisrael Bartal describes Hazony as a right-wing extremist. A columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz (9/14/2000) wrote that Hazony is a sympathizer of the slain radical Jewish leader Meir Kahane, who called for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. The goal of Hazony, wrote the columnist, is to find new ways of "breathing life into Kahane's racist, totalitarian, intolerant ideology." Ronald Lauder's Jerusalem-rally speech came at a time when the Israeli government was waging a campaign of siege and starvation against the entire Palestinian population. While Mr. Lauder supports some legitimate charitable causes in the US, he shows his true colors when abroad by supporting fanatic causes that seek to uproot an entire population from its native land. Lauder is also opposed to permitting Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. "For Israel to allow these people to return would be national suicide," he said in a statement last September. In contrast, the UN General Assembly has demanded that Israel allow the Palestinian refugees to return since 1948. "Lauder's opposition to the return of Palestinian refugees in order to maintain the pure-Jewish identity of Israel is nothing short of apartheid at its worst" said Turaani. 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