George Orwell and EU law on products from Judea and Samaria

George Orwell’s classic 1984 is about a totalitarian state deliberately using language to condition its citizens’ minds. Through a continually-diminishing vocabulary, complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. This meaning becomes the new truth. In his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language”, Orwell wrote: “In our time, political speech and writing …