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Date Posted: 07:09:51 03/27/06 Mon
Author: proud Jew
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 209.212.29.233
Subject: Bitter Scent, the Case of O’oreal, Nazis, and the arab Boycott

regarding the post from teach which appears
at the bottom of this post your moderator suggests that you read a book titled:
Bitter Scent, the Case of O’oreal, Nazis, and the arab Boycott by Michael Bar-
Zohar
· ISBN: 0525940685
· Publisher: Dutton
· Place: New York
· Date published: 1996
· Pages: 264
·
"Editorial Reviews

"From Publishers Weekly
In 1989, Jean Frydman, a director of L’Oreal, the highly profitable Paris-based
cosmetics conglomerate, learned he had “resigned” at a board of directors
meeting that never actually took place. A hero of the French Resistance, founder
of Paravision (a L’Oreal subsidiary), a Jew and a part-time resident of Israel,
Frydman suspected that his resignation had been forged to meet the demands of
the Arab League, which, at that time, was enforcing a ban illegal in both France
and the U.S on businesses with ties to Israel. He later began to suspect that
the instigator of his removal was Jacques Correze, a former Nazi collaborator
and convicted war criminal who was head of the company’s U.S. operation. The
ensuing lawsuits created a scandal in France. As retold by Bar-Zohar, a novelist
and a biographer of David Ben-Gurion, L’Oreal was a hotbed of former Nazi
sympathizers all too willing to bribe and be pressured by anti-Zionists. It also
had friends in high places, Bar-Zohar claims, as high
as French President Francois Mitterand, who appeared publicly as an archenemy
of the boycott.”

“From Library Journal
Bar-Zohar (Brothers, LJ 3/15/93), a specialist on Jewish-Arab relations,
presents another masterpiece (previously published in Israel) about the
corruptions and violations of France’s antiboycott laws by L’Oreal, a giant
French conglomerate, with the “zealous cooperation of the French embassy in
Damascus” and other important French dignitaries. Bar-Zohar relates how L’Oreal
yielded to the Arab boycott of Israeli products, which started even before the
birth of the state of Israel. He also gives a fascinating look into France’s
murky past during World War II, following the complex story of President
Francois Mitterand’s right-wing connections during his youth, activities as an
official of the Petain government at Vichy, and his continued and shadowy ties
with top L’Oreal executives. The author also delves into the shadowy past of
L’Oreal owner Andre Bettencourt, a cabinet minister, senator, and recipient of
the Resistance medal who was on the payroll of the Propaganda Ministry of Nazi
Germany. Bar-Zohar’s work is richly detailed and clearly argued...It is a
remarkable work designed for nonspecialists.”

“From Booklist
Though the Nazi movement of the 1930s and 1940s appears to be moribund, vestiges
still remain—and in some unlikely places. Official biographer of David
Ben-Gurion and novelist, Bar-Zohar documents the very strange truth of how
certain top L’Oreal managers collaborated with Hitler and how they conspired to
eradicate an existing Arab boycott on their products in the 1990s. The story
begins—and ends—with Jean Frydman, a French-Israeli executive running one of the
cosmetic giant’s subsidiaries. Told to resign for no apparently valid reason,
Frydman launched a series of investigations and lawsuits that eventually led to
the resignations of high-ranking businessmen. Jacques Correze, the president of
L’Oreal’s Cosmair in New York City, was part of La Cagoule, a band of Hitler
sympathizers; and AndreBettencourt, a L’Oreal director and friend of French
president Mitterrand, was found to have been on the payroll of the propaganda
ministry of Nazi Germany. Revelations such as these shocked the
world press—and will probably do the same for readers in this well-wrought,
fact-filled book. Barbara Jacobs”

The post from teach is below:
re The Body Shop's Support For The PLO - Please Write To L'Oreal
Friends,

L'Oreal is in the process of acquiring The Body Shop for $1.1billion. The Body
Shop as many of you already know, has supported PLO causes including a
"Palestinian right to return" to Israel. There are now over 2,500 signatures on
The Body Shop Petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/tbsbok/petition.html

http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/TheBodyShopProtest.html

If you are one of the many friends of Israel who has not yet done so, please add
your name to the Petition and pass this letter on to your friends. Thank you.

While L'Oreal's acquisition raises the possibility of an improvement in the
behaviour of The Body Shop, it is important to keep in mind that Anita Roddick,
who (with her husband Gordon) founded and owns a large portion of The Body Shop,
will stay on as a consultant in the new company. Anita Roddick is calling the
new arrangement "a partnership".

There is also no guarantee that L'Oreal, though originally founded and still
influenced by the Bettencourt-Meyer family, will purge The Body Shop of its
anti-Israel bias. The family now holds only a minority share of the company
stock. L'Oreal is largely owned by its many other stockholders including the
Nestle Company.

Animal rights activists are up in arms over the acquisition claiming that
L'Oreal's use of animals for testing should make The Body Shop shareholders
oppose the move.

This deal is far from done.

Please write to L'Oreal at bdautresme@loreal.com, media@us.loreal.com,
InfoOffice@us.loreal.com, ocouturier@fr.loreal.com, comms@uk.loreal.com

and CC your letter to jointheboycott@mailcity.com

to make them aware of The Body Shop's support for PLO causes and to ask L'Oreal
to have The Body Shop satisfy the demands of the Petition, namely, to apologize,
to revoke the award to the group advocating a "Palestinian right to return" and
disavow the PLO, and to make a substantial donation to Israeli victims of PLO
terrorism.

Below is a short sample letter. Please feel free to copy it and append your
name, or better still, write your own. My letter is at
http://www.voy.com/119804/585.html

Thank you. David.



TO THE L'OREAL COMPANY:

I want to make you aware of The Body Shop's support for PLO causes.

http://www.petitiononline.com/tbsbok/petition.html

http://www.geocities.com/truthmasters/TheBodyShopProtest.html


If your acquisition of The Body Shop is successful, I ask you to please have The
Body Shop apologize to the many friends of Israel it has offended, revoke its
award of $75,000 to an extremist anti-Israel group that advocates a "Palestinian
right to return" and disavow the PLO and its aims, and make a substantial
donation to Israeli victims of PLO terrorism. Thank you.

Sincerely,



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