Lush closes all UK stores in one-day protest over Gaza crisis

Lush shut down its UK operations on Wednesday including all shops, factories, and its website in a coordinated protest against the ongoing starvation crisis in Gaza.

Shopfronts across the country carried the same message: “Stop starving Gaza, we are closed in solidarity.”

In a statement on LinkedIn the brand said “Across the Lush business we share the anguish that millions of people feel seeing the images of starving people in Gaza, Palestine. Like the rest of the world, we struggle to find ways we can help whilst the Israeli government is preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza. One thing Lush can currently send into Gaza is our love and a strong message that we stand in solidarity.

pic via Rhiannon C on LinkedIn

Online, customers were greeted with the same stark statement, while its Oxford Street spa was marked “temporarily closed” on Google Maps.

The one-day action, which cost the company an estimated £300,000 in lost revenue, was a deliberate act of protest – the company’s online statement called for an end to “death and destruction”

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