The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ruled that “Product of Israel” labels affixed to wines produced in Israel’s illegal West Bank settlements violate Canadian consumer protection law.
Yesterday, a Canadian Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the Trudeau government’s appeal of a ruling that ‘Product of Israel’ labels on Israeli settlement wines are “false, misleading and deceptive.” The case now goes back to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for “reconsideration and redetermination,” and Israeli war crimes will be on the docket.
“I would like to tell Pompeo, and all Americans, that when you drink that wine, you are drinking the blood of the Palestinian people,” Abdel Jawab Saleh, a Palestinian who owns land on this site of the Psagot settlement said.
The European Union’s highest court has ruled that products made in Israeli settlements must be clearly labeled as such when being sold on shelves in EU countries.
David Kattenburg reports on the testimony of Yakov Berg, the CEO of Psagot Winery in the occupied West Bank, in a case pending before Canada’s Federal Court regarding the labeling of products made in the occupied territories. Berg says labeling his wine as anything other than a ‘Product of Israel’ would be discriminatory and antisemitic.