‘Covert influence’: Israel hired Toronto firm to fight Canada’s labelling of settlement wines (breachmedia.ca)

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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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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 11 points 18 hours ago

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 11 points 17 hours ago

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 9 hours ago

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 3 points 9 hours 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 8 hours 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