(JTA) — Canadian authorities withdrew a guideline that prevented goods produced in the West Bank from being labeled “Made in Israel.” In a statement released Thursday, the Canadian Food and Inspection Agency said that two wines that had fallen under the labeling ban did in fact “adhere” to the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and could…
(JTA) — Following complaints, a French supermarket store apologized for applying labels reading “made in Israeli settlements” to some of its products. The labels that appeared last month on pomegranates and Tangerines at the store belonging to the Auchan supermarket chain in the Paris suburb of Kremlin-Bicêtre were the result of a “an error” by…
A store owned by Dutch Christian Zionists advertised to its customers products from Israeli settlements to protest an E.U. requirement that they be labeled separately. The Israel Products Center in Nijkerk, a town situated 20 miles east of the Dutch capital, advertised the products in question specifically in a letter dated Feb. 10 by Pieter…
A Customs reminder barring West Bank products from being labeled “Made in Israel,” has turned into a political fight with Republicans pushing forward a legislative measures in order to revoke the labeling rule. Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill that would scrap the Customs labeling regulation. Cotton’s move came following a reminder issued…
In his winery nestled in the rocky red hills of the central West Bank, Amichai Lourie prepares a shipment of award-winning vintage destined for the American market. On the labels, which carry Laurie’s signature, the winery clearly states that the product is “Made in Israel.” In fact, Lourie’s wine comes from territory occupied, but never…
A senior Israeli offical called on Germany on Thursday to urge other European countries to oppose EU plans to require products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories to be so labeled. “Obviously, there is no question of Germany following this disastrous move,” Israeli Knesset speaker Yuli Yoel Edelstein told Reuters after a forum on…
Germany’s famous KaDeWe department store in Berlin has taken wines made in the Golan Heights off its shelves to comply with a European Union labeling regulation A spokesperson for KaDeWe, Petra Fladenhofer, told German media on Friday that the store was removing eight wines from stock, due to the recent decision by the European Union…
Attempts to compare the European Union’s settlement labeling guidelines to the Nazi boycott of Jewish goods and stores cheapens the memory of the Holocaust, the EU envoy to Israel said. The attempt to draw parallels is a “distortion of history and a belittlement of the crimes of the Nazis and the memories of their victims,”…
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