The accompanying report explained that Mr. Store "was met with a demand from the AUF that Norway must recognize a Palestinian state," and that he replied that while he rejected an economic boycott of Israel, "the Palestinians must have their own state, the occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now".
Enter B.D.S., an international lobbying movement that advocates Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian territories — a demand that caused a furor in another unlikely enclave of Brooklyn last year when members of the Park Slope Food Co-op rejected a motion to boycott Israeli products.
The Oxford University Student Union decisively rejected a motion supporting a boycott of Israel in a vote in February.
In its opening session the party conference yesterday gave the platform some comfort when it overwhelmingly rejected a motion urging academic boycott of Israeli universities.
The other, Mehdi Karrubi, the ex-Majlis speaker and the head of the National Trust party, rejects an election boycott.
Mr Hashemi's Iraqiya bloc, currently boycotting parliament, yesterday rejected a call by Mr Maliki for talks to resolve the crisis, and in turn said it was considering a no-confidence vote against the the Prime Minister.
Mr. Hsieh has rejected any boycott of the Olympics.
MEANWHILE, more than 26,000 scientists, including several Nobel laureates, have vowed to boycott major scientific publishers after they rejected a petition demanding that journal articles be turned over to a free, online archive within six months of publication.
In Nepal 33 parties rejected a constituent-assembly election in November, including one faction of the once-ruling Maoists, who staged a menacing "active boycott".
When the legislature met in November, it rejected a proposal by Sullivan that popular elections determine the state's electoral slate, and instead chose a Federalist slate supporting Charles Cotesworth Pinckney for president in a vote boycotted by many Republicans.
