A few months ago, Canada’s Federal Court ruled that wines produced in Judea and Samaria cannot be labeled “Products of Israel.” While BDS-holes everywhere celebrated this decision, they may have overlooked this part:
Lascaris argued the case on behalf of his client, David Kattenburg, who he described as “a member of Winnipeg’s Jewish community and a child of Holocaust survivors.” Kattenburg had also asked that the settler wines be labeled products of the “Occupied Palestinian Territories,” but the federal court rejected that part of his request.
And sure enough, the chickens have come home to roost.
The World Destination Program of the LCBO arranged to include five Nadim wines by Taybeh, and five varieties of Taybeh beer earlier this year. The product arrived in Canada, and was ready for release in early August when notification came that the product was being put on hold.
Earlier this month, just as shipments were ready to go to local LCBO stores for private order pick up, as well as to be put onto the e-commerce channel for offering through the LCBO World Destination Program, the LCBO informed Palestine Just Trade that “due to the recent decision by the Federal Court regarding labeling requirements for wines from this region, we have placed these products on hold.”
Talk about sour grapes…and poetic justice.
