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(4,159 posts) Wed Nov 11, 2015, 07:34 AM Nov 2015

EU Commission approves settlement product labeling

Products coming from Israeli factories in the West Bank, East Jerusalem. Gaza, and the Golan Heights will be labeled as 'settlement products'; Foreign Ministry summons EU ambassador to receive reprimand.

Itamar Eichner, Reuters
Published: 11.11.15, 12:24 / Israel News

The European Union's executive approved on Wednesday new guidelines for labeling products from Jewish settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights, a move that has already been criticized by Israel as "disguised anti-Semitism."

The European Commission "adopted this morning the Interpretative Notice on indication of origin of goods from the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967," said an EU official.

Drawn up over three years by the European Commission, the guidelines mean Israeli producers must explicitly label farm goods and cosmetics that come from settlements when they are sold in the European Union.

The guidelines determine that merely labeling products as "Product from the Golan Heights" or "Product from the West Bank" would not suffice, and the label must also include the words "Israeli settlement" in brackets.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4724058,00.html

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EU Commission approves settlement product labeling (Original Post) Israeli Nov 2015 OP

Great News, but I hope this is just the first step, Israeli. R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #1

Let the whining and shrill Holocaust analogies commence. nt geek tragedy Nov 2015 #2

Hasbarist tears are so sweet. R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #3

How can anyone be against this and say with a straight face they don't support the occupation? n/t Jefferson23 Nov 2015 #4

so 36 US Senators are against honesty in labeling? azurnoir Nov 2015 #5

they're for pandering to extremist elements nt geek tragedy Nov 2015 #6

R. Daneel Olivaw

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1. Great News, but I hope this is just the first step, Israeli.

Reply to Israeli (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2015, 08:56 AM

Nov 2015

Once I would have hoped that Israel's goods would be labeled and boycotted until it removed itself from the West Bank, but I know now, with the amount of settlers and right wingers in government there, that it will never happen.

Two states are dead. The best hope is for the Palestinians in the West Bak to be given the vote; seeing how Israel has gobbled up their land.

Until that happens Israel should be boycotted.

Just my opinion, mind you.

I would opt for a two state solution, but that is not realistic now.