Norway, Israel and the jews

Aftenposten: "Beat Palestinian children during interrogations" On March 15th Norway’s second largest newspaper Aftenposten published an editorial on the importance of combatting anti-Semitism. As Document.no points out, Aftenposten can start by examining its own journalists. John J.Mearsheimer og Stephen M.Walt write about the media (in “The Israel […]

Anniken Huitfelt in Dagbladet, April 17th 2009 Following NRK journalist Tormod Strand’s program on anti-Semitism in Norwegian schools, the media is all over the issue. But this is not new. Anti-Semitism in the schools was a big issue almost exactly one year ago as well. The news is that even the problem was known, it [...] […]

Aftenposten op-ed "The Norwegian Jew disappears" Norway is one of those societies which has great difficulties in providing Jews with circumstances in which they can thrive. The author of the op-ed in Aftenposten above raises an interesting question: If Jews cannot live in Norway, does not that prove the necessity of a Jewish state where [...] […]

Syversen of the Christian Democrats Hans Olav Syversen of the Christian Democrats is asking that the authorities take anti-Semitism seriously. Mr.Syversen has a good track record of doing so himself, although there are those who say that he is too much of a gentleman to be a match for the brawlers he faces. Unauthorized translation [...] […]

Communist daily Klassekampen Communist daily Klassekampen has little love for Israel but is pitching in against anti-Semitism – in its own way. Unauthorized translation from “We need to clean house“, with General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council - We need to know more, says Sultan to Klassekampen. - Concrete measures demand a better mapping of […]

Bookshop sells Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitism Sara Azmeh Rasmussen says to Vårt Land (above) that she recently purchased a vehemently anti-Semitic book at a bookstore in Oslo. The bookstore in question is located in the same building as a mosque and the Islamic Council.  The book is allegedly subsidized by Saudi-Arabia, and goes for NOK 55. She is [...] […]

This keeps happening. Blogs in foreign languages hook up. The reason is not that people necessarily are all that interested in Norway, or that NIJ is such a fantastic blog people just cannot stay away, but rather that people all across the world are starting to recognize the international obsession with Israel for what it [...] […]

Decades of one-sided information has made many prominent Norwegians incapable of recognizing their desire to punish Israel for what is is – a malign obsession. Even as anti-Semitism is being uncloaked, Bernt G. Apeland is only to happy to step up to bat, speaking of investigating Norwegian Jews for war-crimes. Perhaps one of these days [...] […]

During the NTNU boycott-proposal debate there was one academic who suggested that this blog was part of a powerful conspiracy attempting to “stifle all debate”. Another NTNU academic wrote a furious letter to the university newspaper suggesting that this blog is financed by the state of Israel. As luck has it there are others who [...] […]

The above is a screenshot from the blog Muslimprosjektet, which describes itself as “Searching for the truth about muslims in Norway”. This is perhaps not the most exact mission-statement ever made, but the author of the blog appears to be a sensible, well-educated sort of person. In his latest post he writes about his experiences [...] […]