Late in 2025, Just Peace Advocates with Al Haq released the report “How Canada Supports the ‘Israeli’ Alcohol Industry Which Is Embedded in Occupation and Apartheid”
The report identified 169 unique wines and alcohol for sale as “Products of Israel” across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. The remaining provinces did not list any ‘Israeli’ products.
You can read details of the products and their availability HERE but in summary:
- Five companies explicitly have vineyards in the occupied West Bank:
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- Tabor (Gush Etzion),
- Barkan (Jersualem Mountains),
- Teperberg (Gush Etzion, Samarian Mountains, and Mevo Horon),
- Binyamina (Gilboa), and
- Tisbhi Estate (Gush Etzion).
- Seven companies explicitly have vineyards in the occupied Syrian Golan:
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- Recanti (Odem and Kidmat Tzvi),
- Odem (Odem and Vineyard 1060),
- Vitkin (Syrian Golan),
- Tabor (Ortal and Keshet),
- Binyamina (Mevo Hama, Tel Phares, and Kidmat Tzvi),
- Golan Heights Winery (Avital, Ortal, Bar’on, Odem, Hermonit, Ein Zivan, El Rom, Allone Habashan, Yonatan Springs, Yonatan, Geshur, and Tel Phares), and
- Tisbhi Estate (Syrian Golan).
In Canada, through the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CAHWCA) and the Geneva Conventions Act, international war crimes are crimes under the Canadian Criminal Code. Notably, this applies to “legal persons”, which includes organizations and corporations. Therefore, not only should Israel be held accountable for its crimes, Canada, its agencies, and all Canadian individuals who support the production, shipment, importation, and sale pipeline must be held accountable.
Those involved in the supply chain include representatives for the winery, provincial and territorial liquor boards who accept these products for sale or private import, agents who are the party responsible for importing international alcohol, and private beverage alcohol establishments which accept these products for sale or distribution. In particular, the agents, as the conduits for importation, must be held individually criminally liable. Without these agents, these illegal products would not be imported.
Further, “through the adoption of the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement, the Canadian government enables the unlawful appropriation of Palestinian resources, including land, water and minerals, to produce goods that are exported and sold for private profit. In doing so, it fails to meet obligation under international law not to recognize as lawful an illegal situation and to not assist its maintenance.”
Read in details the Legal Implications associated with this import and selling of apartheid wine. Specifically:
- The war crime of pillage
- Failing to differentiate goods from occupied territory in the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
- Land appropriation
- Transfer of civilian population
- The crime of apartheid
- Aiding + Abetting
- Laundering Proceeds of Crime
- Jurisdiction
You can read the details including about the agents importing apartheid product complicit with war crimes into Canada HERE.
The federal government departments and provincial regulators have been made aware of this report and their legal obligations to act.
We ask you to write to them to insist they take action to Immediately end the importation and sale of all Israeli wine, in alignment with international and domestic law.
