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In our new report, Just Peace Advocates and Al-Haq further expose Canada’s complicity in supporting the ‘Israeli’ alcohol industry through the importation and sale of apartheid products.

Read or download the full report

You can find a full list of products identified in our audit here.

‘Israeli’ alcohol products continue to be imported and sold without opposition. This is despite Israel’s well-documented and longstanding genocide, apartheid, and unlawful occupation. The ‘Israeli’ alcohol industry is deeply connected to these crimes. Without Israel’s settler colonization of Palestine –– its forced transfer of the Palestinian population, transfer in of Israeli Jewish settlers on lands appropriated from the Palestinian people, its denial of the Palestinian right of return, maintained by a regime of institutionalised racial discrimination and Israeli Jewish domination –– ‘Israeli’ wines would not exist. ‘Israeli’ products are the result of historical and ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Yet, Canada continues to facilitate the import of these items.

There are a multitude of impacts on Palestinians and Syrians, both because of companies operating in occupied territory where Israel is unlawfully present (the occupied Palestinian Territory and Syrian Golan), and also those operating within Israel, where Israel applies a discriminatory apartheid regime on both sides of the Green Line. While only a fraction of the impacts, we’ve outlined some key consequences in this report, including:
• Land appropriation
• Exploitation of natural resources
• Entrenchment of occupation and apartheid

We conducted an audit of ‘Israeli’ alcohol products across Canada. This is a follow-up to our previous analyses such as in 2019 which found very similar results.

This year, we identified 169 unique items for sale as “Products of Israel” across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.

For more information and sources, check out the full report: https://www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/new-report-how-canada-supports-the-israeli-alcohol-industry-which-is-embedded-in-occupation-and-apartheid/

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If you want to see some of our key work from the past year, you can check out:

1 | Resource + Action Hub

2 | Key Resources for Understanding the Canada to Israel Charity Pipeline

3 | Kashmir Resources

4 | Our Pensions are Funding Genocide

5 | Updated Legal and Tactical Guide

6 | Materials in support of The Palestine Tribunal (compilation of our work over the years)

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