Norway, Israel and the Jews
Former premier Kåre Willoch based his criticism of Israel on Benny Morris’ writings until Morris asked him to stop misinterpreting him, at which point Willoch switched over to Ilan Pappe. When Hallgrim Berg claims that Moen is “worse than Willoch”, this speaks volumes. Unauthorized translation from Dagsavisen: – Singles out Jews Moen is Professor of North...
Dagbladet reports that Professor Ole A. Moen at the University of Oslo subscribes to Apartheid rhetoric in describing Israel. Unauthorized translation: Moen does not believe one can expect that Obama will intervene in the conflict between Israel and Palestine and apply pressure to make Israel leave Gaza. - I do not believe he has...
Mads Fredrik Gilbert (born in 1947)is a Norwegian doctor who became a politician in the Rødt (Red) party after first having spent some time in AKP-ml (Workers’ Communist Party – the marxist leninists). Gilbert attracted some attention in 2006 when he criticized the organization medicine sans frontiers for working on both sides of a conflict without taking...
Asgeir Drugli is a politician in Rødt (Red), a socialist party to the left of the Sosialistisk Venstreparti (Socialist Left). Rødt is four times as popular among Norwegian journalists as it is with the population in general. Drugli aspires to be elected to parliament in the elections in 2009. In an interview in the...
“Noman Mubashir is quite right when he writes in the daily Aftenposten for January 10th that there were many hooligans rampaging the centre of Oslo last week. But he does not mention that some of the activists unfortunately had more ideological reasons for their riots, violence and shouts of hatred. Jewish communities report more...
We all make mistakes. The communist daily Klassekampen has many faults, yet the screenshot above captures only a mistake and not an incident of anti-Semitism. The heading reads “Happy gas-solution”. The notice from the Norwegian News Agency deals with a business arrangement concerning gas and petrochemicals. The picture, inserted by Klassekampen, is of the...
In January 2009 Oslo was rocked by the worst riots in a decade and the streets rang with cries of “Kill the Jews”. Blitz helpfully handed out fireworks rockets to the rioters, who put them to good use by firing them at a pro-Israeli peace rally and the police, as well as by attempting...
Below, an excerpt from Aftenposten Morgen (Morning edition, paper), on Janury 13th, page 4, section:news, by journalist Anne Hafstad. On NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, who worked and reported from the Shifa hospital in Gaza. Caveat: this is an unauthorized translation. For an authorised translation please contact the newspaper – Aftenposten. The two...
Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse are quoted in an article in Dagsavisen, a smaller Norwegian daily. Here is an unauthorized translation from the article by Heidi Taksdal Skjeseth on January 12th: The two believe conditions in Gaza are reminiscent of the ghetto in Warsaw during the second world war. – Gaza is the Warsawa-ghetto again,...
Anti-Israeli and anti-semite sentiment is running high here in Oslo. Now please look at the photograph below. This photo of anti-Israeli protesters was taken on January 8th in downtown Oslo, right in front of the Stortinget (Norwegian Parliament building), during a peaceful, pro-Israeli rally. I remember this particular poster very well because I was...
Youth politico Erlend Bøe (Progress Party) was going to express his support for Israel during a demonstration today. After being threatened on his life, the 16 year old chose to stay at home instead. And who can blame him? Bergens Tidende has two articles on Bøe’s experiences: Threatened on his life after Israel support...
In the article “An eternal war” on Forskning.no, journalist Marianne Nordahl writes: “Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank since 1967. In this period untold human lives have been lost on both sides of the borders, and hate in the region has grown.” As it happens, the Israeli NGO...
The Norwegian intelligentsia is preoccupied with Israel. And not in a benign way. Unauthorized translation from Aftenposten, journalist Åshild Eidem: Norwegian artists and academics now consider a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. – There is a limit, says pictoral artist Håkon Gullvåg. ÅSHILD EIDEM This week Minister of Culture Trond Giske has encouraged...
The screenshot above is from the commentary “When one pluss one equals war“ in Dagsavisen by journalist Kaia Storvik, which rams home, again and again, how people are “increasingly” loosing faith in a two-state solution and “increasingly” favoring a one-state solution. Any uncertainities regarding the journalist’s own position on this issue evaporate when she asks Nils Butenschøn for his...
Trine Lilleng, first secretary at the Norwegian Embassy in Riaydh, Saudia Arabia, first attracted attention in 2007 through blogging about her meetings with members of the Saudi monarchy (VG). In January 2009 she made headlines across the world by equating Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust. Mrs.Lilleng sent out an email to friends,...
Trond Andresen is an academic working with cybernetics at NTNU in Trondheim. He was a longstanding member of the socialist RV/Rødt but left the party after attracting negative publicity for, among others, a letter to the communist daily Klassekampen (Class war) on Saturday, January 3rd. There are limits then, even for a party where...
From the Stephen Roth Institute for the study of anti-Semitism and Racism, Norway 2008/2009: An anti-Israel demonstration on January 10 in downtown Oslo also turned violent and antisemitic. Pro-Palestinian groups, such as the Palestine Committee with support from leftist groups, had received permission from the police to protest against Israel outside the Norwegian parliament....