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Norwegian county boycott of Israel ires Jewish groups
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By The Associated Press , Last update - 14:58 22/12/2005
A Norwegian county's decision to boycott Israeli products because of its
occupation of Palestinian territories has outraged Jewish groups.
Soer-Trondelag became the first province in Norway to bar the purchase of
Israeli goods when the provincial board voted on December 16 to impose the
boycott.
Torill Skaerseth, a board representative from the far-left Red Electoral
Alliance, said she hopes the boycott will spread to other Norwegian provinces.
"We see Israel as an occupying force that could be compared with the
apartheid regime in South Africa," she told the regional newspaper
Adresseavisen. "We also want to campaign for the people of Soer Trondelag to
also boycott."
Although the economic impact would be insignificant, the political signal
angered Jewish groups.
In a statement issued in New York on Tuesday, the Anti-Defamation League
condemned the decision.
"It is shocking and ironic that this one-sided boycott effort comes at a time
when Israel is making a series of dramatic steps toward peace, including the
recent withdrawal from Gaza," the league's U.S. national director Abraham H.
Foxman said in a statement.
Norway has been an active mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most
notably by secretly negotiating the now-tattered Oslo peace agreement in
1993. It also sought to nurture the process by awarding the 1994 Nobel Peace
Prize to Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat.
The Norwegian national government has not imposed or called for any boycott.
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