Israel’s ambassador to Norway urged Oslo officials to remove a public sculpture from a central square. The sculpture “abuses freedom of expression in the most serious manner,” ambassador Liora Herzl said in an open letter Thursday. The rectangular work, “The Wall: Fragments of History,” has the date of the 1947 partition of Palestine beside the word “Holocaust.”
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