After the Norwegian province of Soer-Trondelag voted to boycott Israeli products because of “Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians,” one of the country’s prominent journalists charged that media bias was a factor in the development. Kgell Arild Nilsin, of the Norwegian news agency, NTB, explained why to the European Jewish Press:
“This is something new in Norway because the sympathy toward Israel was very prevalent in our country since 1948,” he added.
“You can explain this new shift because the Palestinian case got more coverage in the last decade, especially because of Norway’s involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in the early 1990s.”
“But that is not all. The lack of reporting of the Israeli point of view also explains this shift in the Norwegian society.”…
“[T]his affair […] is symptomatic of a new phenomenon, a shift in Norway’s public opinion on Israel,” the Norwegian journalist concluded.
