Boycotting Israel's Rebranded Product

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Saturday, 26 April 2008 10:52

Stopping the Party: Boycotting Israel's Rebranded Product

by Canada Palestine Association

As we approach the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the Israeli government has announced its plans to “rebrand” its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing.

Here in B.C., the focus of this “rebranding” is the promotion of wines under an Israeli label in B.C. liquor stores, which are now carrying products from the Galil Mountain Winery, the Golan Heights Winery and the Dalton Winery.

DON’T DRINK WITH APARTHEID – BOYCOTT ISRAELI WINES

Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm - Picket the Israeli Wines Festival hosted by the Israeli Government Economic Mission to Canada, Four Seasons Hotel, W. Georgia & Howe, Vancouver

The Golan Heights Winery (of which the Galil Winery is a joint venture) produces wines from grapes grown on occupied Arab land, and many of their wineries are located on occupied Syrian land in the Golan Heights. All of this is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention and stated Canadian policy.

Nonetheless, successive Canadian governments have given Israel preferential trading status under the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement, an agreement that financially enables the Israeli government’s oppressive policies and does not even attempt to distinguish products that are from illegal Israeli settlements. And BC liquor stores, when questioned as to their shameful actions, replied they;

“…offer products from around the world on a commercial demand basis.”

On May 4, 2008, an Israeli wines festival will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel, hosted by the Israeli Government’s Economic Mission to Canada. We say 60 years of “rebranding” is enough, 60 years of dispossession, exile and the destruction of a whole nation are enough.

Join us in a mass picket on May 4 at 4:30 pm outside the Four Seasons Hotel to send this message to the Israeli government, and to our local and national politicians. As the South African campaigners said many years ago outside BC liquor stores, then as now, DON’T DRINK WITH APARTHEID!!

Organized by Canada Palestine Association – Vancouver, Canada
www.cpavancouver.org

Endorsed by:

Al Dameer Association for Human Rights - Gaza, Palestine; Arab Cultural Forum – Gaza, Palestine; Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (BIAC), Vancouver; Burnaby Teachers Association Social Justice Committee, Burnaby; Canada Palestine Association, Halifax; Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet) www.canpalnet.ca; Canada Palestine Support Network-Ottawa www.canpalnet-ottawa.org; Canadian Arab Federation, Toronto www.caf.ca; Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Toronto www.caiaweb.org; Free Gaza Movement, www.freegaza.org; International Solidarity Movement ISM, Vancouver www.ism-vancouver.org; Jews for a Just Peace www.jewsforajustpeace.com; No One Is Illegal, Vancouver www.noii-van.resist.ca; NorCal ISM, California www.norcalism.org; Not In Our Name, Toronto www.nion.ca; One Democratic State Group – Gaza, Palestine; Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), Montreal; Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), Ramallah, Palestine www.pacbi.org; United Black Students at Ryerson, Ryerson University, Toronto; University Teachers' Association – Gaza, Palestine; Women in Black, Los Angeles www.wib-la.net

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