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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...085695,00.html

From news article:
Earlier this month, a survey by the Oslo Municipality found that 33% of Jewish students in the town are physically threatened or abused by other high school teens at least two to three times a month. The group thta suffered the next highest amount of bullying was Buddhists at 10%. “Others” were at 7% and Muslims at 5.3%. Furthermore, the survey found that 51% of high school students consider “Jew” a negative expression and 60% had heard other students use the term.

The publication of these very negative findings came at an inconvenient time for Norwegian authorities. A few days later, an American Jewish group consisting of delegates from the Anti-Defamation League, B’nai Brith International and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as well as Professor Marshall Breger, a former adviser on Jewish Affairs to President Ronald Reagan, arrived in Oslo.

The group had been invited by the DMT - the Oslo Jewish Community - for a two-day seminar on anti-Semitism. The Norwegian government helped finance the trip. The delegates were also to meet Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and Minister of Education, Kristin Halvorsen. Critics who claim that anti-Semitism in Norway is disproportionate were not invited. However, some of the Americans met several of them elsewhere.

The seminar’s aim was to improve the global image of Norway’s attitude toward Israel and the Jews. Recent articles in the foreign media had detailed a variety of negative aspects. Shortly before the visit, an item by community member Martin Bodd in the Aftenposten daily became a further spoiler. His article illustrated that the DMT’s promotion of Norway as a “good place for Jews" was far too optimistic and that anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in Norway tend to merge into one issue. Bodd had already spoken at an international gathering of the Anti-Defamation League in 2002 about Norwegian anti-Semitism and in particular the harassment of Jewish students in schools.