'BDS started in Tel Aviv'

Yaakov Berg, the Chief Executive Officer of the Psagot Winery in Samaria, tells Arutz Sheva that the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement started in Tel Aviv.

Yaakov Berg, CEO of Psagot Winery, revealed to Arutz Sheva that the international boycotts of Israel products began precisely in Tel Aviv. There, the discrimination by Israelis against domestic produce from over the 1949 Armistice line opened the international floodgates.

"Today everyone is attacking the countries that boycott us, but I want to say that the true boycott began from among us," emphasizes Berg.

"Many years I travel to well-known restaurants in the central region and Tel Aviv, and they tell me our wine is great, but when they hear it's from Judea and Samaria they show me to the door," reports the CEO. "Would they act this way to an Arab like they act towards a Jew?"

The winery, founded in 2003, is headquartered in the Samaria town of Psagot just north of Jerusalem, where wines are aged in oak vats in a cave from the Second Temple period which was discovered when the winery was established.

Psagot has won international acclaim for its quality. In the prestigious Vinalies competition in Paris, the winery won a gold and silver medal in 2011. It has won numerous gold medals in the Terravino competition, the Panama Vinos competition, and Israeli Wine Awards.

Berg comments that he would drink wine even if it was made by a "leftist kibbutznik." He notes the hypocrisy, saying "if I was an Arab asking to work as a waiter and they told me that they're refusing me because I'm Arab, that would immediately be news, so why is this considered normal?"

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"70% of our wines are sold in countries worldwide, and are in prestigious restaurants in Manhattan, but not here in Tel Aviv," reveals the CEO.

Read the whole thing. His warnings to the Leftists in Tel Aviv are quite prescient.