In Sweden you can only buy alcoholic beverages in the state-owned monopoly shops ‘Systembolaget’.
In their Internet-catalogue Israeli wines are marked: “Israel - occupied Syrian territory”.
Not long ago the social-democratic swedish prime minister Gøran Persson said: “Sweden is not anti-semitic”
More at Hodja
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Just a pedantic remark:
It's not clear whether the Swedish agency marks ALL Israeli wine in this way. If it only marks the wine coming from the Golan Heights area, it is formally correct. That area is indeed, according to international law, still Israeli-occupied Syrian territory - AFAIK.
The link you post to Hodja does not seem to work, it returns a "no posts match the criteria" page
An anonymous coward who hates being dragged in discussions but likes to make a minor point every now and then
You are right about the Golan heights.
The reason the link doesn't work is, the original posting is in danish, at in danish we have the special characters '���' and they seem to confuse 'english-speaking' links.
Hope this works:
http://hodja.wordpress.com/2006/06/05/g%c3%b8ran-persson-udtalte-forleden-sverige-er-ikke-antisemitisk-2/
"An anonymous coward who hates being dragged in discussions but likes to make a minor point every now and then "
is that why you posted anonymously?
J,
yes
The same anonymous coward as above
Hello Pastorius
They have 5 Israeli wines, 3 are from the Golan heights, and those 3 are marked as I wrote.
You can see the list for yourself if you follow the link on my page 'Israel ockuperad syrisk omr�de'.
Did you know that the CEO of Systembolaget is in fact Göran Perssons wife? Tells you something about the system in Sweden.
So what if the Swedish Systembolaget replaced the text "Made in Israel"
with "Israeli occupied Syrian territory". They are referring to the Golan Hights Winery.
It doesn't say on the bottles "Boicott Israel!".
No, they simply point out that this wine has been made in an occupied territory.
They leave it up to you to decide if you want to purchase the wine or not.
I wish more companies would take simular actions in the spirit of the Swedes.
Not neccesarily to boycott Israel, but to point out who gets your money.
At least you are given a choise here, so what's all the fuzz about?
Would it be acceptable for Swedish wines being sold in Israel to be labelled "made in anti-Semitic Sweden", after all this is not saying boycott Sweden, just letting people know where the wines are made and gives Israelis a choice, perhaps they would prefer to buy Californian or Australian wines given the choice and more knowledge.
Or perhaps they should mark all Israeli made wines with a yellow star, indicating their Jewish status and hence their untermenschness in the eyes of the peace loving aryan children of Sweden.
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