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  • NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
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  • Letter from Minister of Defense denies boycott of Israel, claims ‘constructive dialogue’ with Israel
    Hans Olav Syversen from the Christian Democrats refers to a letter from the Minister of Defense Vårt Land today reports that the Christian Democrats (KrF) and Conservatives (Høyre) aim to stop Minister of Defense Grete Faremo (Labor) from boycotting Israeli companies on an individual basis. The article (above) refers to a letter from […]
  • NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations
    When Charles W. Freeman had to resign from a position with the Obama administration in March 2009, he blamed the Israel-Lobby. On Wednesday he visited NUPI in order to speak about US-Israel relations. Vårt Land reports, in an NTB article, that Freeman has as little faith in the current round of peace […]
  • Scandinavian democracy – a guided affair
    Screenshots from Norwegian newspapers Aftenposten and DagenMagazinet Not even in Scandinavia does democracy work flawlessly. Is there an invisible hand at work? In the screenshot above (left) we see an op-ed from yesterday’s Aftenposten, with Eirik Vatnøy from Civita, a liberal think tank, asking some rather poignant questions. Vatnøy points out that it appe […]
  • Washington Post on terrorism in Norway
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  • Protected: Norway suspects Israel unethical, invests in Turkmenistan
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. […]
  • JP mentions Norway: Has Europe learned from its past?
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  • Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism
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  • Nous allons manger des pommes de terre israéliennes », annonce notre hôte
    This blog is not about Israel or the Norwegian Jews. It is about Norway’s perception of and relationship to Israel and Jews. Yet Norway is only one little piece in a larger puzzle. It is while trying to solve this puzzle that foreigners every now and then are brought to pay attention to us up […]

Hallgrim Berg claims Moen is 'worse than Willoch'

Screenshot from Dagsavisen

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 [...]

Professor Moen subscribes to ‘Apartheid’ rhetoric

Screenshot from Dagbladet

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 [...]

Doctor Mads Gilbert (NORWAC)

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 sides [...]

Asgeir Drugli:

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 regional [...]

“Are there any jews there?”

“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 threats [...]

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Klassekampen, January 15th 2009

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 [...]

NORWAC doctors claim no indication of Hamas presence in Shifa hospital

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 doctors who [...]

Mads Gilbert says Gaza is worse than Warsaw ghetto

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, only worse. There [...]

The flag of Hezbollah

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 standing [...]

'Untold lives lost...'

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 Bet’slem puts [...]

Kaia Storvik favors one-state solution

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 opinion.

Nils [...]

Diplomatic envoy Trine Lilleng

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, where [...]

Socialist politician: Jews suffer from empathy deficiency

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 prominent [...]

Stephen Roth Institute on Norway 2008/2009

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. The demonstrators, [...]