US Customs clarifies position on labeling of West Bank products - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Dec 23, 2020

Bottles of wine are set to be shipped at Psagot winery in the Israeli settlement of Psagot adjacent to the Palestinian West Bank city of Ramallah on Nov. 19, 2019. Israeli Yaakov Berg recently lost a battle against Europe over labeling his wine, so when the United States announced it no longer considered the Israeli settlement he lives in illegal, he popped open a bottle. — EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images

Israeli winemaker Yaakov Berg's holds a bottle of his red blend named after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Psagot Winery in the settlers industrial park of Sha'ar Binyamin near the Israeli Psagot settlement in the occupied West Bank north of Jerusalem on November 18, 2020. - Berg's decision to name his red blend after US Secretary Mike Pompeo may capture attention, but for him the hashtag on the label's top right corner "#madeinlegality" is just as important, categorically rejecting the notion tha

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