Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
By Cnaan Liphshiz
European Jewish Press
November 24, 2010
Egil Drillo Olsen, coach for the national Norwegian football team, recently
wrote in Aftenposten, the country’s second largest paper, that the call to
boycott Israel was “in line with what 90 percent of the world’s population
believes. There cannot be many other opinions.”
The petition is the last item in a string of similar and high-profile initiatives
to have taken place in Norway over the past two years. It was signed by
coach Olsen and 99 other public figures from the arts and culture, who
stated that a boycott is “necessary” not only to help Palestinians, but also
to “support Israelis opposing the occupation.”
Norwegian former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik called the boycott
call “unhelpful” and “not representative” of the current government’s
policy.
Bondevik, who presided over the Norwegian government for seven years
over the period 1997 until 2005 on behalf of the Christian Democratic
Party, added he wished to “reassure” Israelis that “boycott is not an issue
in Norway.”
That same year the major Norwegian State pension fund divested from
Elbit Systems because of the company’s involvement in building the
security fence.
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