Edited sentence: " Stoltenberg was accused by the Anti-Defamation League for being "silent in the face of official anti-Semitic and anti-Israel banners." The ADL said in a letter to Stoltenberg that it was disturbed by his decision to participate in the event and was dismayed he had not denounced the slogans, which called for a boycott of Israel and called it an apartheid state.At the end of Stoltenberg's second term in 2013, after a new government was elected in Norway, it was reported on JNS.During Stoltenberg's presidency, Norway’s government under his Labor Party was criticized for being "soft on Palestinian terrorism, and has even promoted it indirectly.org that many were hopeful it will stem the tide of antisemitism