Fail! Pro-Palestinian Company Admitting Jewish Ties To Israel

A Twitter user by the name of @koshergrmetmart has noticed the following product.

palestinian goods

It seems to come from a company called Canaan Fair Trade, which is clearly promoting products from the palestinian-controlled territories.

Canaan Fair Trade is social entrepreneurship firm dedicated to artisan quality products based in Jenin, Palestine. The company sources its agricultural food products from a network of 49 cooperatives organized in the Palestine Fair Trade Association with the membership of over 1700 farm families. Canaan products are certified fair trade, most are USDA organic, and are found at specialty and organic shops across the US and Europe. Canaan’s olives and olive oil are highly prized and extra appreciated for the wider impact they have on the producers’ communities through fair trade practices.

Canaan-USA is a sister company of Canaan Fair Trade-Palestine. We are staffed by group of dedicated professionals with extensive experience and committed to servicing Palestinian farmers. We distribute Canaan branded product in the USA. We sell to community organizations, food coops, and gourmet and specialty stores in the US.

So what’s so interesting about this? Well, look at their marketing pitch again:

From the Farms of Palestine in The Land of Milk and Honey

“The Land of Milk and Honey” is the term used to describe the land of Israel in the bible/Torah. It is first used when G?d spoke to Moses at the burning bush, and informed him that He would redeem the Israelites and bring them to a “good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

In other words, this very term refers to G-d’s promise of the land of Israel to the Jewish people!

In contrast, the name “Palestine” is mentioned nowhere in the Bible/Torah. It was first used in 5th century BCE Ancient Greece when Herodotus wrote of a “district of Syria, called Palaistinê.”

So thank you Canaan Fair Trade, you’ve acknowledged something very important, although I suspect your marketing guy is going to be fired real soon.

19 thoughts on “Fail! Pro-Palestinian Company Admitting Jewish Ties To Israel”

  1. Norman_In_New_York

    There is another inaccuracy on the labels shown for this particular product. There are no such things as “native Palestinian tomato varieties.” Tomatoes originated in the western hemisphere and subsequently were transplanted around the world.

  2. The name “Palestina” is used in Isaiah Chapter 14 according to KJV translation of The Bible. However, most versions say “Philistia” obviously from the Philistines of thousands of years back that have not existed culturally or ethnically since. It was located in today’s Gaza and the coastal plain of Israel. “Palestine” as a territory today is solely a creation of The British military and Mandate or law(under the League of Nations). Prior to that it was used interchangeably with The Holy Land to describe what did not exist anymore the Israel/Judea land area destroyed by Roman Legions 1,800 to 1,900 years ago. The Arabs of “Palestine” were never a separate group prior to the British mandate which was enacted in part to allow for a Jewish “National Home” there, along with Jewish settlement to make the home viable.

    P.S. I agree, it is ironic for these propagandists to refer to The Land of Milk and Honey from a Bible text which they spend much time trying to twist or reject outright when Zionists and their supporters cite it for historical or religious purposes to justify a Jewish presence and state in the land.

      1. I’ll keep it short as I do not disagree with you on the fundamental dishonesty of the website: using Biblical names to deny Jewish connection to the land, from a Jewish Bible that is part of the deed to the land is crazy, if you will not accept “ironic”.

        1. The reason I reject more gentle terms is that the liars are NOT “crazy”; they know *exactly* what they are doing. But I would like to be able to think they are crazy instead of evil.

          1. The connotation of my statements should be taken as anything but gentle. They are a negative-critical-mockery of these people; yes of course they’re committing evil, though the whole point of the article itself is to show their clumsy failure for anyone who knows and acknowledges real history. Hence the author’s title “Fail!-Pro Palestinian Company INADVERTENTLY ADMITTING to Jewish Ties To Israel.”

  3. The 5th Cent Greek usage is drawn from the even older Egyptian term ‘Peleshet’; whose Hebrew (ancient and modern) cognate is Plishtim (rendered in the KJV as Philistines.) All three of these, and the Roman usage (Syria-Palestina), begin with the unvoiced labial plosive phoneme – the ‘P’ sound.
    The unvoiced labial plosive phoneme does not exist in Arabic and so they substitute either the voiced labial plosive (‘B’ as in Balustin) or the unvoiced labial fricative (‘F’ as in Filastini)
    This confers on the so-called “Palestinians” the unique distinction of being the only (sic)indigenous people who are unable to pronounce the name, they claim is that of their “Native Homeland”; in their “Native Language”

  4. Man, I miss this blog. I wish I could still keep up with Zionist blogs as much as I used to, but it gets tiring. Ive also been karet for a few years now since I left college and was stuck with my conservaform family and work. Ive since moved out on my own and am trying to reconnect, but where I live now has very few Jews, and sparser religious ones.

  5. If you check their website, they are openly stealing THAT phrase, too. There is nothing that Israel is or was that these lying terrorist-supporters will not try to in some way appropriate.

    1. Its a religion of usurpation, what do you expect? palestinianism is just the best known embodiment of it.

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