Israeli Media Network Claims Ricky’s Protests Boost Sales

By on October 3, 2010 9:37 am in Brooklyn Heights, News

According to a West Bank-based Israeli media network, protests against Ricky’s sale of West Bank-made products have been a boon for the store and for Ahava, the manufacturer.

IsraelNationalNews.com: A Brooklyn-based group trying to convince locals to boycott Israeli-made Dead Sea skin care products has managed to promote the region and boost the company’s business better than an ad campaign.

The “Brooklyn for Peace” protesters have been aiming at on [sic] one particular cosmetics shop in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, Ricky’s of Montague Street, which sells the Ahava skin care line.

The article cites the efforts of Rabbi Aaron Raskin, of Congregation B’nai Avraham on Remsen Street, as particularly effective in boosting sales. Rabbi Raskin is identified as “a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who often interacts with doctors, lawyers and judges in the borough.”

This Wikipedia article identifies Israel National News as the written news website of Arutz Sheva (“Channel Seven”), a media group based in the West bank settlement of Beit El, which “is considered Religious Zionist in its outlook, and is focused on issues directly affecting Israeli settlements.”

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  • Obama?

    I myself don’t do business with companies based in countries having an Apartheid form of government.

  • The3rdMan

    The palestinian terror network – killing innocents and boosting sales of Israeli merchants since 1948…..

  • waahngu

    hmm 3rdman…r u forgetting that pre 1948 white europeans had cornered that particular market which led to the terrible guilt which led to what we have now?

  • Nancy

    According to Wikipedia, any pro-Israel stance makes you a Zionistl. I wouldn’t exactly use Wikipedia as an unbiased source

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    Nancy: I try not to use Wikipedia if there are more reliable options; in this instance, Wikipedia was all I could find other than Arutz Sheva’s own websites. The Wikipedia entry on Arutz Sheva has this cautionary note: “This article needs references that appear in reliable third-party publications. Primary sources or sources affiliated with the subject are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please add more appropriate citations from reliable sources.” In other words, the editors of Wikipedia believe this article to be too reliant on Arutz Sheva’s own sources. If it shows any bias, it would therefore be expected to be in favor of Arutz Sheva’s “religious Zionist” position.

    As to what “Zionist” means, I don’t see where this Wikipedia entry defines it as you say it does. If being “pro-Israel” simply means believing that there ought to be, as there is, a Jewish state within the 1948 borders, it seems to me this could be considered a “Zionist” position (and, in this sense, I would be a Zionist). If, however, it is taken to mean that the state of Israel ought to,or must, incorporate what is variously referred to as the West Bank, the occupied territories, or Judea and Samaria, then that’s a different question.

  • Hicks on Hicks

    Hey Obama?
    If you don’t do business with apartheid governments than you should be boycotting arab states. How many jews in their governments compared to arabs in the knesset?

  • Dusty

    Obama: “I myself don’t do business with companies based in countries having an Apartheid form of government.”

    So I am sure you have no problem supporting Israel, the only democracy in the Middle east. Irshad Manji, a queer Muslim woman says:
    “It’s absurd to apply the term apartheid to one of the most progressive states in the world”

    She continues:
    “Would an apartheid state award its top literary prize to an Arab? Israel honoured Emile Habibi in 1986, before the intifada might have made such a choice politically shrewd. Would an apartheid state encourage Hebrew-speaking schoolchildren to learn Arabic? Would road signs throughout the land appear in both languages? Even my country, the proudly bilingual Canada, doesn’t meet that standard.

    Would an apartheid state be home to universities where Arabs and Jews mingle at will, or apartment blocks where they live side by side? Would an apartheid state bestow benefits and legal protections on Palestinians who live outside of Israel but work inside its borders? Would human rights organisations operate openly in an apartheid state? They do in Israel.”

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/irshad-manji-modern-israel-is-a-far-cry-from-old-south-africa/story-e6frg6zo-1111112964516

    Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people have the right to self determination in their ancient homeland. There are Chrisatian Zionist, Jewish Zionists and Muslim Zionists. And yes, you can be a Zionist and still support self determination for the Palestinian people. I’m a strong, pround Zionist, and I look forward to seeing two states, one Jewish and one Palestinian living side by side and in peace

  • brooklynheightzer

    If Zionism means being pro Jewish state within its 1948 borders then I think we may even find a number of Palestinians and Arab countries becoming Zionists, though probably reluctantly, as many (not all – I never generalize) of them would prefer Mediterranean Sea to be Israel’s to Western border.

  • brooklynheightzer

    I meant Eastern border. So I will post the whole thing again:

    If Zionism means being pro Jewish state within its 1948 borders then I think we may even find a number of Palestinians and Arab countries becoming Zionists, though probably reluctantly, as many (not all – I never generalize) of them would prefer Mediterranean Sea to be Israel’s Eastern border.