Disney Heiress Takes Code Pink Line, Withdraws Investment from Israeli Company over 'Occupation' by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart July 30, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1347/disney-heiress-takes-code-pink-line-withdraws Print Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this.   Abigail Disney, Walt's great-niece and heiress, has just withdrawn her 12 million dollar investment in the Israeli Company Ahava because, she says, it is "stealing minerals" from an "Occupied West Bank." Ms. Disney believes this violates both the 1970 Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention "by exploiting natural resources in occupied territories." Well—not exactly, and not so fast. Disney is not actually withdrawing a penny for "complicated financial reasons." She has decided to "donate the profits, as well as funds equal to the value of her shares in the Dead Sea minerals cosmetics firm Ahava, to groups working to end this illegal exploitation." Serious Israeli (and non-Israeli) legal experts view the territories as "disputed" not "occupied"—but let's not quibble. » CONTINUE READING

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