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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: September 3, 2006 |
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Ultra-leftist Israeli ex-politico Yossi Sarid was invited several months ago by the Norwegian foreign ministry to attend and address a conference on religious and cultural tolerance in Bali, Indonesia. However, when the Indonesian co-sponsors and national hosts discovered that an Israeli was on the guest list, Sarid was promptly uninvited.
The solution: offer Sarid Norwegian citizenship in order to bypass the boycott.
That was too much even for Sarid:
"I almost fell out of my chair with astonishment," wrote Sarid in reference to the offer. "The more thought I gave to the offer, the angrier I became.... I have no other country and I have no other nationality. No self-respecting person in the world, no person who respects his nationality, would accept such a twisted offer."
Sarid urged other participants invited to the conference to decline their invitations in protest. |
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