Last year, the Socialist Left Party in Norway called for a complete boycott of Israeli goods.
It didn’t work.
In 2006, Norwegian firms imported Israeli goods worth NOK 650 million.
This is an increase by NOK 80 million, or 15 per cent from the year before, the strongest increase in many years.
This is shown by figures from Statistics Norway (SSB).
SV party secretary Edle Daasvand, who has led the campaign, says to the newspaper Vaart Land that it is not pleasant for the party to note that the import from Israel is increasing.
(You have to read the above with a Scandinavian accent. Use the Jamie Lee Curtis one from the end of “Trading Places.”)
Economic boycotts aren’t the ones that really hurt Israel. She gets her goods out eventually, because her products are worth having. The boycotts that hurt Israel are the arms boycotts—the ones that aren’t announced, but are in effect, such as the U.K. refusal to allow certain military parts sold to Israel.
This, mind you, is one of the reasons why Israel cultivates a relationship with China. If Western nations won’t sell Israel vital military parts that she doesn’t produce on her own, then Israel will turn to other nations for those parts.
Perhaps more countries should boycott Israel.
“Vaart Land” heh heh, heh heh.