Quisling Returns to Oslo ?

Simon Wiesenthal Center published 28/12/2005



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Wiesenthal Centre to Norwegian Prime Minister: "Quisling Returns to Oslo?"

Paris, 28 December 2005


In a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Director for International  Relations, Dr. Shimon Samuels, described the Norwegian Provincial Government of Sor-Trondelag resolution to boycott Israeli products as:

• an act of antisemitism in the spirit of Hitler's 'Kaufen nicht bei Juden'
• campaign of the 1930's
• a continuation of Norway's collaborationist history under its own Nazi
• leader, Vidkun Quisling
• in violation of the freedom of commerce provisions of the European Union
• and the World Trade Organization
• an embarrassment to the Norwegian foreign policy as it places Oslo in the
• camp of the rejectionists of the Middle East peace process and of the
• forces of terrorism.

Samuels demanded that Norway "go beyond its current 'denial of responsibility for the acts of a local council'. The vote by this unreconstructed Stalinist faction of the SDP governing coalition partner, is a betrayal of all Socialist values".

Our Centre urged the Prime Minister "not only to condemn this outrage, but to expunge the racists in the ranks of his own government by expelling them and their sympathizers".

Samuels concluded by calling on "our friends in the Norwegian church, trade unions, media and fair-minded public to stand in solidarity with our protest", adding that "to do otherwise would constitute a warm welcome to Quisling".