The Associated Press reports that the European Court of Justice has ruled that goods produced in the West Bank by Israeli squatters on Palestinian land must be labelled as such, and cannot pretend to be from Israel proper.
Israel is a country of eight million people Palestinians number five million, Israeli settlers in the hundreds of thousands have been squatting on Palestinian land. About third of the trade these Israelis engage in is with the European Union. Citizens of the EU want to know whether they’re buying from Israeli occupiers of Palestinian land. .
