Canada backtracks on labeling wine from the West Bank | | AP/Ynet - The agency had ruled that because the federal government did not recognize Israel`s control over several territories it captured in 1967, vendors should stop selling and importing wines from the Psagot Winery and Shiloh Winery labeled `Product of Israel.`
Yaakov Berg, CEO for Psagot Winery in the West Bank, was angered by the move.
`We have returned home to our homeland, the place where our ancestors made wine` Berg said. `Canada, of all places, a country founded and expanded as it conquered and destroyed the homeland of another people, a country with no roots or historical validity of its existence there, questions the right of Jews to live and grow vineyards in the land of our forefathers.` [bz]
| 14/7/2017 |