Ahava: My 5 favourite moments
“…Ahava’s last day of trading in London’s Covent Garden is tomorrow (Tuesday).
It has suffered two years of racist, abusive and, at times, violent protests while Camden Council and our politicians looked away.
Not once did a politician of any rank stand up for Ahava’s right to trade or come to join the pro-Ahava counter-protest.
It is shameful that a shop that was trading 100% lawfully was forced to shut like this. It’s a stain on Britain’s democratic credentials.
Ahava’s all female staff were repeatedly bullied, not knowing whether they would arrive at work to find the locks glued, the shop front daubed in red paint or whether anti-Israel activists would invade the shop with heavy concrete blocks to lock themselves onto so making their removal from the shop virtually impossible…”