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ANTISEMITSM INCIDENCES Are we whitewashing events in...

ANTISEMITSM INCIDENCES Are we whitewashing events in Norway'Jerusalem PostONLY A few of the many recent incidents can be mentioned here. During Operation Cast Lead, Kristin Halvorsen, leader of the Left Socialist Party and at the ...See all stories on this topic Unfree to WorshipThe National Interest OnlineBoth anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic incidents were reported. Vietnam. Long one

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Israel shrugs off economic boycott activism

Norwegian finance ministers do not normally have the tools or the temperament to provoke fury among Israeli leaders and jubilation among Palestinian activists.Yet those were the reactions when Kristin Halvorsen announced in September that her country's giant pension fund had excluded an Israeli defence company from its portfolio for "ethical reasons". The fund, she added, had sold its...

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Israel shrugs off boycott effort

Norwegian finance ministers do not normally have the tools or the temperament to provoke fury among Israeli leaders and jubilation among Palestinian activists.Yet those were the reactions when Kristin Halvorsen announced in September that her country’s giant pension fund had excluded an Israeli defence company from its portfolio for “ethical reasons”. The fund, she added, had sold its...

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Norway: More harassment in immigrant schools

... boys are also exposed to social control, she says. Tajik says she will contact education minister Kristin Halvorsen and ask to research further on why schools with a high percentage of immigrants have a poor showing in the harassment statistics. Edvard Befring, professor of special education at the University of Oslo, thinks the trend is due to discrimination of minorities - in both...

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ei: Israel targeting the boycott movement

... West Bank from Jordan. He was returning from a trip to Norway, where he met with Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen, amongst other officials. At the beginning of September, Finance Minister Halvorsen announced Norway’s divestment from the Israeli company Elbit due to “ethical concerns.” Elbit provides security systems for Israel’s wall in the West Bank and illegal settlements...