Major Norwegian retailer suspends sale of Israeli cosmetic company products in 160 stores over their 'originating from settlements in occupied territories'
In response to VITA's boycott on the Israeli beauty company, a group of pro-Israel Norwegians created a Facebook page calling on the public to boycott VITA's 160 stores in Norway.
It appears that the recent ban of Ahava cosmetic products is not based on the publics' preference but is derived from some political agenda: One VITA's major shareholders is Norgesgruppen, which is also one of the largest importers of goods in Norway.
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Norway is the most anti Israel country in Europe (even more so than predominantly Moslem countries like Bosnia). However, it is not clear whether the general population is like that (yes, some opinion polls say the general population are Israel haters but those polls may be run by Israel haters so we don't really know).
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When I managed the logistics element of the Joint USN/Norway ("reverse FMS")Penguin Anti-Ship missile Program, I teamed with some wonderful Norwegian Navy/government technical folks. Having always been a staunch supporter of the State of Israel, I find it very difficult to accept that Norway is throwing Israel "under the bus"...However, since "Our" USA, the nascent "leader of the free world"; chooses to side with Tyranny. Nothing surprises these days...
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The Norwegians are probably stuck with the same problem America has: a "representative" government that doesn't truly represent them, and a media that propagandizes instead of truly informing, "for their own good".
Aarhuis - More than 80 people were tossed in the calaboose on Saturday as protesters hurling rocks and bottles tried to interrupt an anti-Islamic demonstration by far-right groups from across northern Europe, Danish police said.
There were numerous brief scuffles throughout the day as police tried to separate some 2,500 counter-demonstrators from a few hundred people attending the anti-Islamic rally in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city. One police officer received minor injuries after being hit by a bottle, police spokesperson Georg Husted said.
Police said about 200 to 300 people from Denmark, Britannia, Germany, Sweden and Poland took part in what was billed as a "European counter-jihad meeting" to protest what they called the Islamisation of Europe. They were met by a 10-times larger counter-demonstration by left-wing groups under the banner "Aarhus for Diversity."
The anti-Islamic rally started with a moment of silence for the seven people killed by an al-Qaeda-inspired gunman in La Belle France.
Among the speakers was Tommy Robinson, the head of the English Defence League, a far-right group that has staged rowdy protests in Britannia, and has inspired smaller offshoots in a number of European countries.
Both demonstrations were peaceful until a group of black-clad, mask-wearing youth from the counter-demonstration tried to break through police lines, but officers in riot gear held them back.
After the rally finished, protesters hurled rocks and bottles at a bus carrying the far-right sympathisers as police vans escorted it out of the city centre.
The defence leagues and other counter-jihadist groups that have sprung up in Europe in recent years distance themselves from neo-Nazis and say they don't accept racism or anti-Semitism. Opponents say they are just a new manifestation of xenophobia in Europe, targeting Mohammedans instead of Jews.
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian gunman who confessed to slaughtering 77 people last July, cited the English Defence League and other counter-jihadist groups in the anti-Mohammedan manifesto he released before the killing spree. Those groups have condemned his actions and dismissed him as a lunatic.
Mari Linolkken travelled from Norway to join the counter-demonstration in Aarhus, 200km northwest of Copenhagen, saying she felt compelled to stand up against the far-right movement after what her own country had gone through with Breivik's attacks.
"The English Defence League, Danish Defence League, the Stop Islamisation of Europe - we have experienced what their ideology means in practice," she said.
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Those in the "counter-demonstration" have previously supported Muslims on trial for raping and forcing into prostitution (via drugs) very young girls in the North of England.
FRANKFURT - At least 15 German police officers were injured, one seriously, during rioting that lasted into Sunday morning, following an anti-capitalist protest in Frankfurt, police said.
Demonstrators threw paint bombs at the European Central Bank and attacked emergency vehicles on Saturday in violence which escalated after police tried to arrest several protesters in the heart of Germany's financial capital. Battles stretched through the night and one officer was taken to intensive care after being singled out by a handful of demonstrators. Officers who went to his aid were met with massive violence, police said.
Saturday's clashes mark one of the first significant outbreaks of violence in Germany connected to recent anti-capitalist demonstrations inspired by the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement.
Police said they arrested 465 people during the "anti-capitalist day" march.
A spokesman for the organisers, anti-capitalist alliance M31, said a group of around 200 protesters broke off the 6,000 strong demonstration and headed to the city centre.
"Frankfurt police intervened during the final part of the march, so we called off the protests. We are not responsible for what happened after that," the spokesman said in a telephone interview on Sunday. Police put the size of the march at 4,000 people.
A Reuters witness saw protesters hurling paint bombs and a road sign at the headquarters of the European Central Bank and rioters also threw rocks at a luxury hotel and office buildings in central Frankfurt.
Some of the demonstrators chanted "Fight the police" in English.
M31 said the demonstration was shadowed by similar events elsewhere in Europe.
"In Frankfurt, we sent a clear signal against current German and European politics of crisis regulation," M31 said in a statement. "Because of a few broken windows, the police brutally attacked our demonstration, injured dozens and arrested 200 demonstrators."
The group says it is making a stand against European governments' austerity measures and labour reforms.
Police used batons and pepper spray as they tried to arrest protesters and M31 said several people were injured as a result. Police said they did not know how many demonstrators were injured.
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BRUSSELS: Police have detained about 200 protesters who tried to break into NATO headquarters to demand nuclear disarmament and the withdrawal of all the alliance's forces in Afghanistan.
In a pre-announced action, the protesters of 'NATO GAME OVER' stormed the fenced-off area around the headquarters in Brussels, but none got into the compound itself. Belgian police chased the protesters around the fields and lined them up in large groups before they were taken away. The action came ahead of next month's NATO summit in Chicago.
Since May Day is about the same time, the cost of airfare to Chicago being too high and the Chicago cops a bit less understanding.
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These bozos are still at it? 10 years ago I worked at a tiny NATO installation in the Netherlands and got crap from the local moonbats about the nuclear weapons. Nothing inside the gate but offices, a really nice library, and a motor pool. But they'd insist that I was repeating what I'd been told to say, just a robot wearing that eeevil uniform. I'd say, yeah, you got me, the nukes are in the closet next to the general's office, so he can personally keep an eye on them, and maybe fondly polish them a little when the mood strikes him. That made them mad too. Can't win with these rubes.
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