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

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[–] BinzyBoi@piefed.ca 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the wine get it's redness from the blood of Palestinian children?

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

With each sip you'll experience the subtle aroma of propaganda in calling state-sanctioned paramilitary terrorists "settlers".

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Every time Israel is in the news these days it seems like another nail is pounded in their coffin.

One wonders if or when Israel will wake up and realize that they are sinking fast, and the way to stop that is to stop trying to hoodwink the rest of the world into believing they're not a bunch of genocidal pricks.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

Well they would also have to stop being genocidal which clashes with their long term project.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Israel has barely seen any consequences for their behavior so far.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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)

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

🤚 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.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Indigo the bookstore brand or another Indigo?

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Unrelated to the bookstore, as far as I know. It's different branding and everything.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

that's one of the ways imperialism works. funny in a dark way, and a tad ironic.