The Norwegian Progress party has lately drawn attention to the Swedish city of Malmö, where moslem immigrants now account for 80-90% of the population in the borough of Rosengård. The political implications of ethnic diversity is likely to increase in the near future, as the moslem population grows thoughout Europe. Below is an excerpt from [...]
Aim and method: What is the extent of Norwegian interest in Israel? To what extent do Norwegian media cover Israel? This rough survey consists of counting headlines in the indexing service of www.webavisen.no. Webavisen lists headlines and stories from 240 Norwegian news sources. This method is by no means exact, as it covers only 240 [...]
Poem by Hege Ramson, published in Klassekampen (Classwar) on May 12th, published in Dagsavisen on May 21st 2004, displayed by the Palestine committee here.
Ariel Sharon’s robber-song
I power on with tanks and planes
when I go out a-pillaging
I plunder my neighbor’s cities and lands
and take more than [...]
On February 16th several major Norwegian newspapers told their readers about how Yusuf al-Qaradawi, to whom many Norwegian moslems look for guidance on religious matters, had stated that the holocaust was a divine punishment and that Adolf Hitler had “put the jews in their place”. Many Norwegians interpreted this to mean that Qaradawi actually meant [...]
The PFU, an association for Norwegian media professionals, yesterday declared comedian Otto Jespersen’s anti-semtic monologues to be in violation of the PFU code for decent and proper conduct. Dagbladet, a Norwegian daily, runs an article under the title “Jespersen’s harassment of Israel is unproblematic”. The title is supposed to sum up the attitude of Per Edgar Kokkvold, a [...]
Otto Jespersen (to the left, burning the American flag) is just about the funniest man in Norway. On November 27th of 2008 his search of funny material brought him, during prime tv time, to say the following:
“I would like to take the opportunity to remember all the billions of fleas and lice that lost their lives in [...]
Stavanger Aftenblad runs an article under the heading: “Warns against helping Palestinians”. The article quotes professor Efraim Inbar, who leads the Begin-Sadat centre for strategic studies at the Bar-Ilan university in Israel. Excerpt below:
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- The international community needs to think strategically and not become sentimental, says Inbar, who is carefully listned to by Israeli [...]
The Norwegian election is coming up in another six months and Siv Jensen of the Progress Party has attracted a lot of attention to herself by warning against “subtle islamification” of Norwegian society. Jensen has pointed towards the Swedish city of Malmö and stated that the Progress Party will never allow a similar situation to [...]
In today’s Aftenposten, Daniel Heradstveit comments on Iran’s development of rocket systems. Heradstveit, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, says the west must not understand Iran’s president literally in his repeated threats to “erase Israel from the map”. The researchers says: “Ahmadinejad has no expectations of removing Israel from the map. What he [...]
Lars Gule
Lars Gule is at present an academic at the Oslo University College. Before that he was the general secretary of the Norwegian Humanist Association. Lars Gule is an expert on Islam who became Norway’s very first international terrorist when he was arrested in Lebanon in 1977, carrying 750 grams of explosives on a [...]
While most newspapers are struggling, Morgenbladet actually reports an increase in sales. This weeks’ edition of Morgenbladet (February 20-26th) runs a full page article under the title “Boycott Israel. Speed up the dialogue”. The article is written by Hege Ramson, a member of the Palestine Committee (Read one of her poems here). Ramson refers to the Israeli [...]
Dagbladet reports “Israeli artillery fires on Lebanon”. In the article itself it turns out that the artillery fire is a response to a rocket having been fired from Lebanon into Israel. Below, from Dagsavisen, today:
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President Shimon Peres yesterday asked Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu to form a new government. A coalition supported by right-wing extremists will probably [...]
An article from the Norwegian News Agency printed in Dagbladet today. While there is no need to elaborate on Mahmoud Abbas’ doctoral thesis on the connection between the Nazis and the Zionists on every single occasion, one might wonder whether Dagsavisen would act equally forgiving to an Israeli politician denying the naqba.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas visits [...]
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It appears that the tolerance for Israelis is extremely low in Sweden right now. Not only is the “security threat” to large to allow the Israeli tennis players to play in front of an audience next month, but according to the blog Islam in Europe, an Israeli TaekwonDo team canceled its participation in a Swedish [...]
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