This is the email I just sent my mom in response to this email she forwarded me.
The forward is after my response...

Sorry...but we’re Americans and we really don’t care.
Do you see anyone still avoiding or talking about anything to do with France and the war boycotts? C’mon...it was only a year ago (exactly a year...as the wars anniversary just passed). How about the exxon mobil boycott email that is currently circulating the States? Personally I haven’t used Exxon since the Valdeez so adding mobil to the list for me isn’t a big deal (they are apparently the same company now) so this is one I’m doing and have no problem with.
However...I buy domestic cheese and have never really noticed a product from Norway.
Not to mention I don’t know if any of the supposed facts of this email are true. I really have no problem with their labels...at least they have a national ant-killing conscience. It’s not 1941

p.s. Yay Israel for blowing up that dude.
Boo a planet that still thinks it ok to blow people up!





The following is the email my mother sent me.


Subject: Norway

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-Larsen'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
off-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:
"Jews, go to Palestine."

To campaign now in Norway to get the Jews 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 Norway 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.