The Anti-Defamation League condemned a regional Parliament in Norway that launched a boycott of Israeli products. The decision by the legislators in Sor Trondelag “does nothing to promote Israeli-Palestinian products, but only serves to exacerbate tensions and ill will,” the ADL’s director, Abraham Foxman, said in a statement.
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