It is against official policy to boycott Israel. Yet 10 percent of Norwegians say they already have initiated a personal boycott of Israel, two boroughs in Oslo have declared a boycott of Israel, dockers have blockaded Israeli ships, and recently the armed forces college chose to cancel a seminar in order to avoid [...]
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FM Støre recently poo-pooed Israeli criticism over Norwegian hostility. Aftenposten has so far refused to comment on JP’s allegation of the newspaper being “viciously anti-Israel”. Many feel that Israel is merely especially sensitive to well-mean criticism. Today TV2 news informs – with an NTB article – us that Rector Sigmund Grønmo of Bergen University is [...] Most Norwegians are decent people who do not go looking for trouble. We do however get led astray sometimes. At NTNU a very vocal, well-organized group of Israel-critics have been working hard for a long time in order to bring about an academic boycott of Israel. They have called for a boycott and organized [...] NTNU is one of Norway’s most prestigious universities. This autumn the university is presenting a series of seminars on the Palestine-Israel conflict where all of the speakers, as well as the members of the organizing committee, are known adherents [...] Norway’s Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen (Socialist Left) has ordered oil fund holdings with Israeli companies to be scrutinized, in order to ascertain whether they are in violation with ethical considerations. Upon finding out that the Israeli company Elbit has delivered technology to the separation wall between Israel and Gaza, she kicked Elbit out of the [...] Unauthorized translation from E24: Note that the terms oil fund and pension fund are used interchangeably but refer to the same – the Norwegian piggy bank, under this government in the custody of Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen of the Socialist Left. Throws Israeli company out of the Oil fund The Minister of Finance is excluding an Israeli [...] In some circles there is a conspicious amount of talk about how important it is to boycott, out of all nations on earth, precisely Israel (see Boycott-category). Indeed on May 1st, Israel was the only country to be singled out for criticism by powerful LO (trade union conferderacy) leader Roar Flåthen. It is therefore interesting [...] Waltz with Bashir – photograph from Dagbladet The photograph above and the article beneath are from an op-ed in the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, written by Sonja Krohn. Krohn argues that “Waltz with Bashir” is, far from being an anti-war movie, actually a piece of pro-Israeli propaganda. —–Excerpt begins—– The Israeli animated movie “Waltz with Bashir” [...] While most newspapers are struggling, Morgenbladet actually reports an increase in sales. This weeks’ edition of Morgenbladet (February 20-26th) runs a full page article under the title “Boycott Israel. Speed up the dialogue”. The article is written by Hege Ramson, a member of the Palestine Committee (Read one of her poems here). Ramson refers to the Israeli [...] |
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