OSLO, Norway: A Norwegian region’s decision to boycott Israeli goods has angered a leading Paris-based Zionist organization.

The group, Simon Wiesenthal, attacked the decision as displaying "racism" and "anti-Semitism" "in the spirit of Hitler".

Earlier this month, the authorities in the Soer-Troendelag region in western Norway voted to boycott Israeli goods as a protest against the construction of the colonial separation barrier in the occupied Palestine.

Talking to newsmen, a left wing local politician Geir Jarle Siraas said: "In the past (we) decided to boycott South Africa to protest against the Apartheid regime."

"We want to mark our distancing of ourselves from Israeli policy today in the same way."

Simon Wiesenthal demanded that Norway "go beyond its current 'denial of responsibility for the acts of a local council'.

There was no immediate comment from the Norwegian government.