Activist threatens court action over ‘Product of Israel’ wine labelling
A Winnipeg man says he will take the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to court if it does not reverse its decision that permits wines produced in West Bank settlements to be labelled as “Product of Israel.”
Your daily spiel for Tuesday, May 30
In today’s spiel: Doing away with obligatory shul dues?; Netanyahu says ceding territory won’t achieve peace; a pre-Shavuot essay about cheesecake and Lebanon considering banning Wonder Woman movie due to Israeli star.
Asaf Mintzer: ‘The two-state solution can’t work’
Nefesh B’Nefesh’s ninth annual aliyah event was held in Toronto March 1. Asaf Mintzer, the mayor of Elkana in the West Bank since 2013, was on hand to represent his community as part of his first visit to Canada.
In the West Bank, one door closes while new ones open
While the withdrawal of Gaza was far more ambitious than the evacuation of Amona, population 200, the associated trauma – for the residents and their supporters, and for the Jewish state as a whole – was eerily similar.
Israel’s new land law deemed barrier to peace by many in Canada
Israel’s controversial law to retroactively legalize some Jewish settlements on privately owned Palestinian land was met by Canadian groups, Jewish and not, with silence and disapproval.
United Nations envoy condemns Israel for building settlements in West Bank
A special United Nations envoy condemned Israel for continuing to build in West Bank settlements and neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem
Border Police officers say they took Palestinian girl’s bike to protect her
“The main lesson to learn from this is that judging an incident purely based on a video without even the least bit of interest in the officers’ version is a vicious and ugly thing,” the officers’ attorneys said
Canadians part of anti-occupation protest in Hebron
Several Canadians were among a delegation of Diaspora Jews who clashed with Israeli police while practising tactics of non-violent resistance July 15 in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron, in the West Bank. Native Torontonians Daniel Roth and Isaac Rose Kates – both of whom grew up in the Toronto chapter of the socialist Zionist youth […]
Two Israeli soldiers wounded in Palestinian stabbing attack near Hebron
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a Palestinian stabbing attack in the West Bank near Hebron.
Report: Herzog would have divided Jerusalem, abandoned settlements as Israeli PM
Herzog was prepared to uproot all Jewish communities in the West Bank and divide Jerusalem if he became prime minister last year, Israeli media reports
