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Nancy Kricorian

Nancy Kricorian is a New York City-based writer and activist.

Website: http://www.stolenbeauty.org

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• BDS victory: South Africa strips Ahava’s ‘made in Israel’ label
  • Nancy Kricorian May 18, 2012 at 11:14 am with 1 replies

    Thanks for covering this important BDS win. It is only fitting that South Africa, a land that experienced the efficacy of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions as part of a multifaceted struggle against Apartheid, should be the first country to take such an action against Ahava’s illegal practices. Now consumers from South Africa will be able to look at the label on products coming from the West Bank and to make an informed choice about whether or not they want to support an ongoing military occupation.

• BDS Victory in Japan: Distributor drops Ahava because of the company’s illegal practices
  • Nancy Kricorian February 27, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    While posted under my byline, this statement was issued by the Palestine Forum Japan, a coalition partner in the international Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott campaign. ~ N.K.

• You won't have Ethan Bronner to kick around anymore . . .
  • Nancy Kricorian February 14, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Be still my heart!

• Double standard for the neighbor-- Paul Auster and Turkey
  • Nancy Kricorian February 2, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Thanks, Elinor! The arts blog of the New York Times covered this yesterday, and I posted the following comment in response:

    "One can agree with Paul Auster about the terrible state of press freedom in Turkey, and disagree with his view of Israel as a bastion of free speech. In the name of state security, in addition to its regime of military censorship for the local press, the Israeli government regularly deports and imprisons journalists who try to expose the truth about Israel's brutal occupation of the West Bank. Israel has also recently passed a law that penalizes organizations and individuals who call for a boycott against Israeli products and institutions as part of the global non-violent Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which attempts to hold Israel accountable to international law."

• Personal narratives vs. a colonial reality: Inside the Palestine Writing Workshop
  • Nancy Kricorian December 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    Ian -- Thanks so much for this beautifully written (and flattering) description of the October workshop. It was an intense and productive week.

• Israeli PR firm scrubs Bronner from website as investigative report appears
  • Nancy Kricorian September 14, 2011 at 3:59 pm with 1 replies

    Thank god for screen shots! Makes it harder for people to hide their tracks.

• 'Atlantic' writer admits she knocked Joe Sacco's Gaza book out of deserved place on top-10 list out of fear of 'polarizing'
  • Nancy Kricorian August 14, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Thanks, Phil, for catching this. As a fan of graphic novels in general and of Joe Sacco's work in particular, I find this beyond appalling. The fact that she so glibly describes her specious reasoning and self-censorship in the comments section is also disturbing.

• Brooklyn-Jenin: Happy Birthday, Juliano Mer Khamis
  • Nancy Kricorian May 15, 2011 at 10:34 am

    An homage to the humane.

• Stolen Beauty boycott culture jam turns Ahava’s online marketing contest into a social media #FAIL
  • Nancy Kricorian May 16, 2011 at 7:26 am

    Hmm...Not quite sure how the Syrians and Libyans are germane to a boycott campaign against an Israeli cosmetics company with a factory in an illegal settlement in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Check out @B'tselem's new report that calls Ahava out by name (link to btselem.org
    & MeretzUSA's blog post against Ahava & Soda Stream settlement products (link to meretzusa.org

  • Nancy Kricorian May 14, 2011 at 10:06 am with 1 replies

    There is some overlap, but more Tweets from #AhavaReborn #StolenBeauty culture jam posted here link to twitwall.com

  • Nancy Kricorian May 13, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Thanks, Salim, for this great post about the two-day culture jam. Who knew BDS online activism could be so fun? I wanted to add another of the witty posts from @bethlehemballet -- worth a follow if you are on Twitter.

    @bethlehemballet
    Umm al-Khair residents can't sleep because of settler harassment. They're fed up with having bags under the eyes. Suggestions? #AhavaReborn

• Exhibit C(UNY): How the lobby works
  • Nancy Kricorian May 11, 2011 at 11:17 am with 2 replies

    Why didn't the Times reference Wiesenfeld's comments from last week's Jeff Dwyer column in which he claimed that Palestinians are not human?

• Tom Friedman says Israel and Salam Fayyad deserve credit for Arab revolutions
  • Nancy Kricorian March 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm with 3 replies

    The best thing about Friedman's self-parodic drivel is this hilarious parody that has been circulating on Twitter and Facebook today. MUST READ.

    link to inanities.org

• Al Jazeera funeral for two-state-solution stirs fear and denial
  • Nancy Kricorian January 26, 2011 at 10:13 am with 1 replies

    I could barely read the Golberg/Ibish piece past the first two ill-making paragraphs, but your post made me go back to skim to find this:

    "It is understandable that Palestinians are supporting boycotts of products made in settlements, however, since the settlements are illegitimate and must not be legitimized."

    So now it's okay to "delegitimize" the settlements and settlement products.

• 'Zionism and peace are incompatible' -- Israeli general's son
  • Nancy Kricorian November 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Would love to see this on the opinion page of the New York Times.

• NY Jewish group raises 15,000 signatures in support of Israeli occupation
  • Nancy Kricorian October 28, 2010 at 4:10 pm with 2 replies

    I believe that Phil is reacting to a liberal rabbi's support of settlements and settlement products, not his support for Ricky's. The rabbi is telling people to buy Ahava not to help Ricky's, but to pump up Ahava's sales, thereby sending profits right back to those settlements. If you look at our fliers and our press advisories and read the archive on our site, we have been completely clear about what we are boycotting.

  • Nancy Kricorian October 28, 2010 at 3:39 pm with 1 replies

    We have never called for a boycott of Ricky's, only a boycott of Ahava Cosmetics because its practices are against international law--its factory and visitors center are in a West Bank settlement, its profits subsidize two settlements that co-own the company, and its fraudulent labeling is currently under investigation in the UK and the Netherlands. You can see more about the Stolen Beauty boycott campaign on our site: www.stolenbeauty.org.

• A Jewish peace group grapples with BDS
  • Nancy Kricorian August 13, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    Thanks for this thoughtful piece about your group's efforts to find a way to engage with the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions Movement that fits with your values. Thanks also for promoting our Stolen Beauty Ahava boycott campaign (www.stolenbeauty.org). The goal of the Ahava boycott is to educate the public while attempting to take the profit out of the occupation--or at the very least making sure that people know that buying Ahava Cosmetics supports Israel's illegal settlement project in the Occupied West Bank. We are grateful to the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace and their excellent web site www.whoprofits.org for providing information about the companies that are directly profiting from the Occupation.

• 'NYT' piece from Dead Sea 'kibbutz' ignores int'l boycott of its products
  • Nancy Kricorian August 8, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Women in Black Vienna staged an Ahava boycott protest at the UN Compound in 2009, so the management knows what they are selling.

• Spirit of Bil'in travels to London
  • Nancy Kricorian March 15, 2010 at 6:22 pm

    Thanks for linking to our Stolen Beauty AHAVA boycott campaign. We're gearing up for a coordinated day of Stolen Beauty protests in NYC, Montreal, D.C., Chicago, Austin, S.F., and L.A. for March 30th--the 2nd International BDS Day of Action. Contact me at codepinknyc@gmail.com if you want more details.

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