Oslo’s newly installed City Council is banning Jewish settlement goods and services from public contracts, reported the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee.
Norway’s capital and largest city has become the sixth Norwegian municipality to ban settlement goods and services, along with one county council.
Norway's capital Oslo joins list of cities banning goods and services from illegal Israeli settlementshttps://t.co/9AWlvBO7B9
— DAILY SABAH (@DailySabah) October 29, 2019
In their 2019-2023 plan, the Socialist Left, Green and Labour parties commit to ensuring that public procurement does not include “goods and services produced on territory occupied in violation of international law by companies operating under the permission of the occupying power.”
The ban on settlement products and services does not distinguish between Israeli and international corporations that operate in Israel’s illegal settlements.
Oslo becomes the latest city in Norway to bar goods or services produced in Israeli settlements from public contracts. Israeli colonization of occupied Palestinian land is a war crime https://t.co/D6qUcqhjLy pic.twitter.com/vAUvgqvXDy
— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) October 28, 2019
The resolution called on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Ease Jerusalem, and that it fully respects all of its legal obligations in this regard.”
The recent ban on Jewish settlement products came with a declaration by the Oslo City Council that it is committed to “investigating the scope of action in the procurement regulations to not trade goods and services produces on territory occupied in violation of international law by companies operating under the permission of the occupying power.”
(Middle East Monitor, PC, Social Media)
