{"id":6428,"date":"2025-09-03T19:21:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/uk-cosmetics-chain-closes-for-a-day-in-gaza-protest\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:21:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:21:44","slug":"uk-cosmetics-chain-closes-for-a-day-in-gaza-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/uk-cosmetics-chain-closes-for-a-day-in-gaza-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cosmetics chain closes for a day in Gaza protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tLONDON: British cosmetics chain Lush on Wednesday shut down its UK shops, factories and online sales for the day to protest the devastating humanitarian effects of Israel&rsquo;s war in Gaza.<br>The international retailer said it displayed signs reading &ldquo;stop starving Gaza &mdash; we are closed in solidarity&rdquo; across shuttered shop windows.<br>&ldquo;Whilst Lush is losing a day of takings, this also means that the UK government is losing a day of tax contributions from Lush and our customers,&rdquo; the company, which sells its products in over 50 countries, said on its website.<br>Lush said it &ldquo;shares the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza&rdquo; and called for the UK government to end arms sales to Israel.<br>London has in recent months suspended some export licenses to Israel for arms used in Gaza, but some UK-made parts, such as components for Israeli F-35 jets, are still exported there.<br>Lush, which has over 100 shops in Britain, faced a backlash in 2023 after a Dublin store displayed a sign urging &ldquo;boycott Israel,&rdquo; which the company called an &ldquo;isolated&rdquo; incident.<br>It has since launched a &ldquo;Watermelon Slice&rdquo; soap resembling the fruit which has come to represent solidarity with Palestinians, with the profits going to mental health services for children in Gaza and Israeli-occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>                       <!-- \n                        \n\n<div id=\"POSTQUARE_WIDGET_122392\"><\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><sub>UK cosmetics chain closes for a day in Gaza protest<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: British cosmetics chain Lush on Wednesday shut down its UK shops, factories and online sales for the day to protest the devastating humanitarian effects of Israel&rsquo;s war in Gaza.The international retailer said it displayed signs reading &ldquo;stop starving Gaza &mdash; we are closed in solidarity&rdquo; across shuttered shop windows.&ldquo;Whilst Lush is losing a day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/uk-cosmetics-chain-closes-for-a-day-in-gaza-protest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;UK cosmetics chain closes for a day in Gaza protest&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}