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Norway: Socialists maintain Israel boycott



According to Norway Post, Socialist Left Party in Norway will not drop planned boycott of Israeli products, despite strong criticism of party leader, Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen’s stated support of move last week
Ynetnews



The Socialist Left Party in Norway will not drop the planned boycott of Israeli products, despite strong criticism of party leader and Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen’s stated support of the boycott last week, the Norway Post reported on Tuesday.


According to the report, the decision to maintain the boycott against Israel was reached at a meeting of the party’s Central Committee on Monday.

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However, the party’s leader will no longer speak on behalf of the boycott campaign.


Party Secretary Edle Daasvand Skjaeveland will become the “spokesperson’ for the boycott “to avoid uncertainty about the government’s policy,” the newspaper quoted Halvorsen as saying.



Halvorsen brought Norway to the brink of a diplomatic crisis with Israel last week by publicly endorsing a consumer boycott of the Jewish state to protest Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.



She was quoted as telling the major Oslo tabloid Dagbladet that she had stopped buying Israeli products long ago, and that she supports her party's boycott campaign.



"My and the Socialist Left's goal is for Norwegian consumers to decide to drop products and services from Israel, and make other choices in the shops," she was quoted as saying. The interview was given before Sharon suffered a stroke on Wednesday.



'Boycott would be unthinkable'



Israel rushed to ask for clarifications over the remarks, with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom contacting his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Stoere, of Labor.



Stoere immediately responded that a government-backed boycott of Israel "would be unthinkable."


"It is not in the government platform," he said. "It is not Labor's policy. It is not the Center Party's policy. It will not become the government's policy."



Halvorsen’s party pushed for a boycott of Israeli goods in parliament three years ago but the bill was turned down.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...198325,00.html

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Luckily these folks don't live in the USA where boycotting Israel, or even asking if a product is made in Israel is illegal --

Illegal For US Firms To Boycott Israel - Up To 10 Years Prison



Norway's Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen
buying oranges that are not from Israel

http://www.natallnews.com/story.php?id=569

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USA threats after boycott support

12 Jan 2006

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods.

The reaction was reportedly given to the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC, and it was made clear that the statements came from the top level of the US State Department, newspaper VG reports.

VG claims that two classified reports promised a "tougher climate" between the USA and Norway if Halvorsen's remarks represented the foreign policy of the new red-green alliance of the Labor, Socialist Left and Center parties.

Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, responded immediately with written explanations to both Israel and the USA, clarifying the government's stance, while Halvorsen distanced her party's policy from that of the government's.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1196096.ece