A restaurant in Princeton, N.J., is hosting a night in March for wines from a maker in Israel’s occupied territories of the Golan Heights. The restaurant is Mediterra, a taverna. Here’s the promo:
MEDITERRA
Wherever the Olive Grows ~ Israel – Pelter WineryWednesday March 19th 6pm.
Enjoy an Israeli inspired menu, paired with Pelters’s elegant wines, produced in the Golan Heights of northern Israel.
Pelter Winery takes pride in quality, working with precision, care and personal attention in everything from the selection of grapes to customer service. The owner, Tal, works with a skillful touch to match grapes with optimal barrels, often choosing a mixture of old and new woods to create grape blends that reflect his personal preferences. Combining both science and art, Tal’s approach to winemaking is a balance of experience, skill and intuition. Tal is creating distinctive wines that combine the local essence with fresh intensity of the northern Golan vineyards.
Please sign up through link below.
$74 excludes tax & gratuity
$93.98 Includes tax & gratuity
Imagine if rightwing Christian groups were sponsoring “pro-life” events at a restaurant in Princeton, N.J. How would the locals feel? Would the night come off? This is really no different. (And yes, I know, a lot of people on our site think the conflict is about real estate and empire; and object to the occupation on those excellent grounds. Myself I’m not a secular person.)
P.S. This is Rush Holt’s district. One of the best congresspeople on the issue. You’d think folks would have a clue… Nope.
It’s a shame, I won’t be going back there again.
I have no doubt some of the people drinking wine at the restaurant that night will identify themselves as supporters of the Syrian people in that nation’s civil war, yet nevertheless support the annexation of Syrian territory in the Golan.
Someone should stand outside and convince would be clients to donate their $74 to BDS
That ought to get the attention of the organizers.
I bet the white supremacists stocked up on Coke during the apartheid protests on RSA too. It’s amazing how people dislike human rights and equality.
why not go to their fabebook page and say howdy?? they will probably delete it but, they cant unsee it. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mediterra-Restaurant-and-Bar/78740684819?fb_source=909
Israel’s past ethnic cleansing and occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights, and Pelter Winery’s profiteering from those war crimes makes it rather different and rather worse that a “pro-life” event!
Perhaps if the pro-lifer Christians had a crusade and killed/drove out, then stole the land and property of local pro-choice people you might have a good analogy.