On May 7, 2026, Labour for Palestine GTA posted on Instagram:
Join the “Hot Cargo” Day of Action Toronto Info-Picket
DON’T DRINK WITH GENOCIDE:
Tell Doug Ford and the LCBO to BAN ISRAELI WINE NOW!
🗓️ WHEN: Saturday, May 9, 1 pm
📍 WHERE: LCBO Store, 55 Bloor Street West
Manulife Centre, Between Yonge & Bay
🪧 Bring your banners, signs & noisemakers!
IT’S TIME TO DECLARE ALL ISRAELI PRODUCTS “HOT CARGO”
For two and a half years, Israel has unleashed mass destruction, ethnic cleansing and war crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But, despite removing Russian and US products from its shelves, the LCBO continues to import and sell hundreds of Israeli wines across Ontario.
It’s time to declare Israeli wines & spirits “Hot Cargo” – and support the right for ALL workers to refuse to handle Israeli products and services!
HOW YOU CAN HELP
1) JOIN US on May 9 to send a clear message to Doug Ford and LCBO Interim President Aaron Campbell to ban all Israeli wines NOW!
2) TELL the Canadian Labour Congress – before its May 11-15 national convention
– to declare Israeli goods and services to be Hot Cargo, and support workers who take action.
Go to www.labourforpalestine.com to send your message now.
The May 9 Toronto Action has been endorsed by:
Labour for Palestine, Steelworkers Toronto Area Council, OPSEU Greater Toronto Area Council, Palestinian Youth Movement, Independent Jewish Voices (Toronto & York Region), Jews Say No to Genocide, Just Peace Advocates, World Beyond War (Toronto), Educators for Peace, Latinx for Palestine.
📣 Please share this call-out with your labour contacts & allies.
At the protest, a large banner displayed by Labour for Palestine GTA read:
Hot Cargo Kills
Hey LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) / CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
Genocide, Occupation & Apartheid Leave a BAD TASTE!
Ban/ Boycott Israeli Wines NOW!
On both sides of the banner, there were illustrations of red wine bottles with red missile or arrow tips at the bottom. In the center, there was a wine glass containing a skull and crossbones, symbolizing poison and death.
A speaker led the crowd in chanting:
Intifada! Intifada!
Long live the Intifada!
Long live the Resistance!
Long live the Intifada!
There is only one solution: Intifada! Revolution!
Intifada! Intifada!
Long live the Intifada!
Here are excerpts from the “Statement of Unity 2024” published by Labour for Palestine GTA:
What is Labour for Palestine:
We are an organization of labour & trade union members and activists with city chapters across Canada, and caucuses in unions across the labour movement. We operate on the territories of Indigenous people unjustly occupied by Canada and work towards the dismantling of all systems of colonization, from Turtle Island to Palestine. We stand in solidarity with the liberation struggle of Palestinian workers and people. We work with unions, likeminded community groups and organizations across the country to further our goals. As labour activists, we recognize the important role of unions and the unique leverage that organized workers can wield to support justice for Palestinians — just like we did in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Statement of Unity / Principles
We consider the State of Israel as a settlercolonial state that maintains a brutal and illegal occupation and system of Apartheid as per the Apartheid Convention of 1973.
We consider that as an Indigenous people, Palestinians are an occupied people in a settler-colonial state who are exploited, oppressed and denied basic human, civil and political rights.
We consider that Palestinians have an internationally recognized right to-resist occupation, settler colonization and apartheid.
We consider ourselves as part of a growing international solidarity movement that is guided by the just and legitimate demands of Palestinian labour, civil society and political organizations. As such, we support the 2005 call from Palestinian civil society for a global campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as well as other related campaigns as an effective and non-violent tool to compel the State of Israel to:
1. End the blockade against the people of Gaza;
2. End its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands, dismantle the Wall and free all Palestinian and Arab political prisoners;
3. Recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and,
4. Respect, protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN General Assembly resolution 194 of 1949.