Israel faces unrelenting attacks, not just from neighboring Arab nations, but also from the left’s useful idiots who help spread the blood libel lies as they continue the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protests. It may be a small thing we can do to support Israel by buying Israeli products, but it does send a message.
Most recently a fellow blogger let me know that Ahava cosmetics were being carried by a Rexall Pharmacy here in London, Ontario — and, the great news — they’re currently 20% off! So I dropped by yesterday to the Rexall store on the northwest corner of Oxford Street and Hyde Park Road, and I picked up a couple of skin care products I needed desperately. I would have liked to load up with at least a half dozen more items, but financial constraints prevented me from doing so. I’m still very tempted to return for their eye cream…
Anyway, if you need any skin care products, consider Ahava — especially now that the products are 20% off. While this product line is not cheap, it’s not outrageously expensive either. I’ve started using the toner I bought, and I love it.
It got me wondering what other Israeli products I might try, and since I’m having a little get-together soon with a couple of fellow bloggers, I think I’ll drop by the LCBO and pick up some Israeli wine.
What got me motivated in this direction lately? A couple of recent news items, both involving recants. First, from Square Mile Wife:
Protests Drive Ahava out of Covent Garden
Colin George, manager of clothes shop The Loft, next door to Ahava, said: “I’m pleased Ahava is leaving. It’s brought the street down. I’ve complained to the landlords, as has everyone here. Everyone would like them to leave. I wish they had left two years ago.
“Protesters are just going to follow them around, wherever they go. Maybe they should be an online business instead.”
That kind of reaction from a neighboring businessperson made my blood boil, as I wrote about here.
Now, in an updated post, Square Mile Wife says Mr George has recanted or something:
Call me a cynic but I am not sure how one goes from I wish they had left two years ago, to I love Ahava.
I do know, both first hand and from fellow bloggers who’ve experienced it, that journos often misquote or print out-of-context quotes from their interviewees. But I have a hard time, too, figuring out how this could possibly be the case in this instance.
The other recantation comes from Richard Goldstone, the man behind the infamous Goldstone Report, which spread the blood libel against Israel in their actions during Operation Cast Lead. Of course, in his recantation, Goldstone couldn’t resist blaming the victim of his anti-Israel screed.
But now Goldstone, under attack from the Israel haters, is recanting his recantation, as Melanie Phillips describes:
So first he claims Israel deliberately killed civilians and might therefore be guilty of crimes against humanity; then he says he now realises this was not the case and he would have written a different report had he known this at the time; now he says he nevertheless sees no reason to reconsider any part of his report.
How can this man have any credibility at all?
But he cannot unwrite what he wrote in the Washington Post. The fact remains that he has pulled the rug from under his own feet, and from under the feet of all who either helped promote or rode on the back of his vile assertions…
However they squirm and dissemble and bully Goldstone back into line, the fact remains that he has shown the world that they were all willing parties to a blood libel – and if they attempt to use Goldstone’s report again, his own words can be thrown back in their faces. The lie has been rumbled.
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