To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government
To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government
Kind of a distinction without a difference, someone who has an issue with wine from illegal settlements probably doesn’t want Israeli wine in the first place. Though I do understand the political weight of treating the occupied territories as regular Israeli territories.
These days that’s probably true. Prior to Oct 7th, there was a fairly successful narrative established that Israel != settlements and that Israel was good while settlers were bad. I think this narrative broke for a lot of people since the aftermath of Oct 7th.
Similar for SodaStream, which declared that it was an Israeli-Palestinian partnership, providing sorely-needed jobs. It was located in an illegal settlement, and now has moved to Israel proper.
I found Indigo, a Canadian company which makes SodaStream-compatible machines and CO2 bottles, and significantly cheaper too!
Indigo the bookstore brand or another Indigo?
I don’t know how sucessful that propaganda was. I don’t remember meeting anyone who believed it. (at least not anyone who knew that the “settlements” existed)
🤚 here’s one. And I know a few in my social circle. That said we have been exposes to hasbara on person-to-person basis so that coulda been a factor.
I mean settlements can’t build themselves. They are build by israel. The harsh truth is that most people didn’t care sbout palestinians so really easily connect the dots