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Opinion | In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? (Guardian, 2025-08-21) (hcommons.social)

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Opinion | In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide? (Guardian, 2025-08-21)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/21/in-norway-we-see-ourselves-as-ethically-virtuous-so-why-is-our-oil-wealth-enabling-genocide
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>> … the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) ... is the largest single investor in the world.

>> #Norway also purports to have a human-rights-based foreign policy, …

>> In April this year, the UN’s special rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese warned that Norway’s sovereign wealth fund had investments in Israeli arms companies and was a “major European source of investment for Israel’s ongoing occupation”... The Norwegian minister of finance ... rebuffed Albanese, but many Norwegian NGOs stepped up the pressure.

>> The government has now announced that the #GPFG will divest from 17 Israeli companies, ...

>> … with the country heading for a general election on 8 September, the issue ... is converting a moral dilemma into a political turning point...

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