A photo of their table shared by Emhoff, who is Jewish, shows a wine made by Psagot Winery, a company based in the West Bank, according to the Times of Israel. The Biden Administration opposes Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
“Whether you’re celebrating with your family, your work family, or the family you have chosen, we wish you all a Happy Passover!” Emhoff tweeted.
The winery has made waves in recent years, including opposing a French court in 2016 that ruled its wine bottles must be labeled as made in an “Israeli settlement.” The company lost the case.
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In 2020, the company named a wine after former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who under the Trump Administration switched a long-held State Department policy that Israeli settlements in the West Bank be deemed violations of international law.
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The Biden Administration opposes settlements in the West Bank, claiming their expansion could damage opportunities for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
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The Vice President and her husband have been open about their interfaith family, as Harris was raised a Christian with Hindu influences, and Emhoff and his children, Cole and Ella, are Jewish.
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Pompeo was Washington’s top envoy under former U.S. President Donald Trump, whose Administration largely supported the settlement movement, unlike U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House. Pompeo visited the winery in November 2020, together with Trump’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman.
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The winery’s CEO, Yaakov Berg, who hosted Pompeo, said Sunday that the Vice President’s seder planners appeared to have chosen a Cabernet Sauvignon that sells for around $40. He quipped to Army Radio that he’d make a wine named for Harris if she votes against a revival of the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran.
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The Biden Administration harshly criticized Israel when it advanced plans for some 3,000 settlement homes last year, calling such steps “completely inconsistent” with efforts to maintain prospects for peace.
But the Administration has not heeded calls from Progressive groups like J Street to more formally back that stance up by reversing the decision made by Pompeo or repudiating the Trump peace plan, which envisioned Israel annexing the West Bank settlements.
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Some pro-Palestinian voices jeered Harris’s Passover wine choice, including James Zogby, the President of the Arab American Institute.
“Psagot’s vineyards are on stolen Palestinian land. It’s not cool,” Zogby said.
The vast majority of the land on which the winery was established historically was farmed by residents of the adjacent Palestinian village of al-Bireh. It was seized by the IDF in 1979 for what it said were security reasons, though some of the farmers were still able to reach their land.
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