From: cinderella heaven [cinderella29f@hotmail.com]

Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 7:18 PM

To: gsg@sellnext.com

Subject: Fw: Pass on.

 

 

 

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> > Bennett M. Epstein is a criminal defense lawyer

> > practicing in New York City.  He is a former

> > prosecutor and professor of criminal justice. Why

> > I won't be seeing the fjords this summer By Bennett

> > M. Epstein   On the heels of Mr. Roed-Lars! en's now

> > infamous remark that Israel "ceded all "moral

> > ground" in Jenin, comes word from his home country

> > of Norway that some supermarket chains have decided

> > to place special identification  stickers on

> > products from Israel. Other Scandinavian countries

> > may follow suit.   The Norwegians say the stickers

> > do not constitute a "boycott" of Israel;  they just!

> > want their customers, who are overwhelmingly pro Palestinian, to pay

> > attention to where these products are produced.

> > Maybe the rest of us should run down to our local

> > supermarkets with a pad of yellow "post-it" notes so

> > that consumers of Norwegian salmon or Jarlsberg

> > cheese can also pay attention to where those are

> > produced.   Stick them on the packages with a note:

> > these products come from a place with a shameful

> > past that continues to operate as a European free

> > zone for Neo-Nazis and other right wing extremists.

> >  Those asking the question of whether Europeans are

> > anti-Israel because of Israel's actions in fighting

> > terror, or because of their own latent

> > anti-Semitism, should study the example of Norway.

> > Behind the current disclaimer of a boycott you will

> > find that Norwegians are quite experienced at

> > boycotting Israel.   Norwegian labour unions have

> > recently refused to o! ff-load Israeli farm

> > produce..   Last year, a Norwegian "labor youth

> > movement" organized a demonstration against  Israeli

> > singers from the Eurovision song contest.

> > Another Norwegian group has been boycotting Israeli

> > oranges since the early 90s.     This group,

> > "Boikott Israel l," rejuvenated by the latest

> > "Intifada" to include a boycott of all Israeli

> > commerce, denies on its website that it is

> > anti-Semitic but states its goal is the end Israel's

> > "50 year occupation" of, and the return of refugees

> > to a "free Palestine." Not anti-Semitic?  In 1941,

> > the graffiti on Jewish businesses in Oslo read: "Je!

> > ws, go to Palestine." To campaign now in Norway to

> > get the Jew s out of "Palestine" seems anti-Semitic

> > to me, if only by process of elimination.   Indeed,

> > the roots of Norwegian boycotts of Israel run deep.

> > Anti-Semitism has held a unique place in Norwegian

> > politics since the 1930s when Vidkun Quisling, later

> > the leader of a Nazi puppet government in Norway,

> > formed the National Union Party.    While many

> > Norwegians fought with the Resistance, many became

> > eager collaborators of the Nazis, including some

> > 60,000 members of the National Union. Under its

> > auspices, Norway formed its own branch of the SS and

> > established  academies sending hundreds of officers

> > the rings of like-minded groups from Sweden and with

> > little fear of official interference.   More

> > significantly, according to a report published by

> > the Stephen Roth  Institute of Tel Aviv University,

> > the extreme right wing Progress Party is the second

> > largest party in Norwa! y with 25 out of 160 seats

> > in the Parliament.  Among other racist and

> > anti-immigration views, this party advocates banning

> > male circumcision. Schechita, kosher stickers on

> > Israeli goods are the modern-day equivalent of

> > painting "Joden" on the Jewish-owned businesses of

> > Oslo and Trondheim in 1941. We needn't be reminded

> > that after that, all of Norway's remaining Jews were

> > deported to Auschwitz.     Fewer than 30 (THIRTY!)

> > survived the Holocaust.   I'm not the sort that

> > usually pays attention to boycotts and

> > counter-boycotts, because often you don't know who

> > you are really hurting.   But there is a good reason

> > why I won't be buying Norwegian products any time

> > soon, or cruising on the Norwegian Line.   Their

> > stickers have caught my attention. Pass this on to

> > others who might  want to read this information.

> >

> >

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