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Here’s one piece of news from late March which escaped us at the time. Source. Taking into consideration the upcoming Græsvik vs. Gerstenfeld PFU hearing, it is still of interest today. Vaksdal challenges the foreign minister In a written question to the foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, Progress Party representative Øyvind Vaksdal asks what is [...]
Photograph from Aftenposten: On Monday Queen Sonja visited the mosque at Tøyenbekken on Grønland in Oslo, where she was received by a number of muslim women. PHOTO: CORNELIUS POPPE / SCANPIX
From the paper edition of Norway’s largest daily today, Verdens Gang, on Saturday, May 30th, in an article by Karoline H.Flåm and Jan Ovind. [...] Adressa.no, the internet edition of the Norwegian daily Adressa, writes about the May 1st parade in Trondheim: Altogether there were around 4000 people in the area around Trondheim and Trondheim Square on Friday at 13:00 pm. 2500 of these took part in the march, that’s a new record, informed Arne Byrkefljot, LO-leader in Trondheim, from the pulpit [...] Unauthorised translation from an article by journalist Lars Akerhaug in Norway’s largest daily – Verdens Gang. No survey on proliferation of anti-Semitism (VG Nett) The center despairs over the lack of surveys of anti-Semitism in Norway. - It is shocking, says the leader of the Holocaust center Odd-Bjørn Fure to VG Nett. The jewish cemetary on Sofienberg in Oslo has [...] It is with great regret that this site now sees the neo-nazi organization Vigrid submit a list of nominees for the parliamentary elections in September. There is some relief to be found in the absolute certainity that the organization will fail to attract more than a few votes. See below for an unauthorized [...] The queen of Norway yesterday visited a fundamentalist mosque in Oslo associated with Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami is Pakistan’s oldest religious party and one of the organizations which Ed Hussein, the author of the book “The islamicist”, was a member of. It is interesting to note that Ed Hussein spoke at the infamous meeting at the House of Literature in [...] Yelena Georgevna Bonner, born February 15, 1923, is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. She comments upon Norway in a recent article in the Jerusalem Post. Here is an excerpt: “In many of Sakharov’s publications (in his books Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom and [...] Every once in a while a Scandinavian is able to step out of himself and think “outside of the box”. Here is a refreshing insight by Danish author Carsten Jensen, from Danish DR. It is part of the common scandinavian inheritance, that we consider ourselves moral superpowers. That we not question our own goodness. Therefore the [...]
Håkon Lie, fighter against fascism and friend of Israel, is dead Håkon Lie has passed away. Lie was a Labour-man who fought against Franco in Spain and the Nazis in Norway during WWII. After the war he worked tirelessly to tie Norway to the west. He was a staunch supporter of Israel. Here [...] Both doctor Mads Gilbert and Mayor of Tromsø Arild Hausberg like to compare the situation in Gaza to that of the Warsaw ghetto during WWII. In this film from News from China it appears that the situation is somewhat different. It might be that News from China are confusing the West Bank for Gaza, but [...] Is Christianity a spent force in Europe? There are those who think otherwise. Here is a message from Tomas Sandell in the European Coalition for Israel: Dear friends, We are now less than two weeks away from the European Parliament elections on 4-7 June.
Respected Norwegian columnist Morten Strøksnes Morten Ströksnes is a respected Norwegian journalist and author. Like many other respected Norwegians of his trade he is willing to believe most accusations made against Israel without any unneccessary contemplation or query. In 1998 The Sunday Times reported that Israel was using Apartheid-era South-African “anti-negro technology” in order to develop [...] Norway’s red-green coalition government is not marketing the nation in a very favorable way. International attention is scarce, but increasingly also drawing attention to some rather disappointing aspects of Norwegian foreign policy. From Melanie Phillips, columnist in The Spectator, here: Egypt, you may recall, is the country which the west is expecting to ensure that no more weapons [...] Melanie Philips is a columnist in The Spectator who primarily covers the anglo-american world. Much of what she writes is equally valid for Norway, however. Here is an excerpt from her article “A lethal double standard“: Sure, there are some protests. But where are the calls by academics or trade unions to boycott Sri Lanka? Where [...] The Norwegian anti-Israel lobby and the media repeatedly claim that Israel is being criticized just like “any other country”. There is reason to doubt the validity of this claim. NIJ has a new woman onboard, Sophie, who in her line of work as a journalist has access to Retriever, a media analysis tool. Below we [...] |
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