Top Netanyahu donors’ West Bank winery seeks Trump’s help fighting EU
The Psagot winery has hired a former US ambassador to the EU to lobby against “settlement” labeling regulations.
An Israeli winery linked to the biggest donors to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hired top lobbying talent to enlist the Donald Trump administration in a legal and political fight against the European Union.
The Psagot Winery in the West Bank settlement of the same name hired Covington and Burling in late September to battle pending EU regulations on country of origin labels, newly disclosed lobbying records show. The rules would require products from the West Bank and the Golan Heights to specify whether they were made in Israeli settlements, which critics say is discriminatory.
