{"id":380,"date":"2006-07-04T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bkwine.gobigtree.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T12:46:46","slug":"israeli-wine-swedish-retailer-tries-and-fails-to-be-politically-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/news\/israeli-wine-swedish-retailer-tries-and-fails-to-be-politically-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli wine? Swedish retailer tries (and fails) to be politically correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish state-owned monopoly retailer of alcohol, Systembolaget, was      criticised for selling Golan Heights wine under the country label \u201cIsrael\u201d.      They consulted with the Foreign Ministry which resulted in Systembolaget      changing the country of origin in their catalogue to \u201cIsraeli occupied      Syrian territory\u201d. A representative for the opposition party Christian      Democrats, Annelie Enochson, said the decision was unfair, treating Israel      different from other countries, and represented a politicising of the state      owned monopolist. Not too surprising though: The monopoly have a habit of      running political campaigns since several years, although it usually has to      do with alcohol politics (the recent campaign to influence EU policies on      alcohol for example, infamously called \u201cDear Mr Barroso\u201d). Read more in          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1149572628104&#038;pagename=JPost\/JPArticle\/ShowFull\">Jerusalem Post<\/a> and in          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decanter.com\/news\/86337.html\">Decanter<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>Last minute update: in a very      careful and politically correct press release the monopoly Systembolaget      announces that they will henceforth use as country of origin for these wines      \u2026 nothing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish state-owned monopoly retailer of alcohol, Systembolaget, was criticised for selling Golan Heights wine under the country label \u201cIsrael\u201d. They consulted with the Foreign Ministry which resulted in Systembolaget changing the country of origin in their catalogue to \u201cIsraeli occupied Syrian territory\u201d. A representative for the opposition party Christian Democrats, Annelie Enochson, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bkwine.com\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}