• Document 15 calls on Jonas Gahr Støre to explain Senator Brownback’s letter
    "Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log" by John Charles Dollman On August 3rd  US Senator Brownback wrote a letter, expressing concern over Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism, to Norway’s ambassador to Washington DC. While this site published the letter on August 12th, Norwegian journalists failed to find it newsworthy. Members of the opposition […]
  • NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
    NRK reports on the Naqba without mentioning war which caused it Journalist Laila Ø. Bakken of the Norwegian State Broadcasting Authority NRK manages to report on how Abbas’ family fled during the “Naqba”, while completely omitting any mention of the 1948 war which caused the “Naqba”. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and […]
  • 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
    Three men were apprehended this summer on suspicion of terrorism. As the Washington Post points out, we Norwegians were told that we at no time have been in any danger whatsoever. Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls In late 2009, Jakobsen went to Norway’s Police Security Service and began providing information on Davud’s activities after what he […]
  • 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?
    In material terms, being Norwegian is like winning the lottery. Intellectually it is like living in a carnival. Once groupthink sets in there is nobody left to comment upon how it affects us, and prominent citizens can act bizarrely with impunity . The JP, which editor of Aftenposten Harald Stanghelle tells us is […]
  • Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism
    In Aslak Nore book “Ekstremistan” the author predicts that in the near future, Norway will be more mulit-cultural, for good and for worse. The reader is treated to some of the latter in Nore’s interview with a Norwegian convert to Islam, who reflects upon some of her formerly held beliefs. The following […]
  • 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 […]

Archives: Progress party challenges Jonas Gahr Støre

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 [...]

He has blessed the murder of all adult Israelis. Here he meets Queen Sonja.

 

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. [...]

May 1st in Trondheim – Palestine most important cause

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 [...]

No survey shows proliferation of anti-Semitism

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 [...]

Neo-nazi organization VIGRID runs for Parliament

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 [...]

Queen of Norway visits mosque aligned with Jamaat-e-Islami and Yusuf al Qaradawi

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 [...]

“Lament in Oslo” – Elana Bonner, wife of deceased Andrei Sakharov

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 [...]

Scandinavian naivité in the twillight of stupidity and criminality

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, friend of Israel, has passed away

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 [...]

Gaza internet cafes same as Warsaw ghetto internet cafes

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 [...]

ECJ and the European Parliament

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.
Please help us mobilize as many  as possible to pray [...]

Columnist upset over non-existent Israeli “anti-arab” weapon

 

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 [...]

The western front of the jihad against the jews

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 [...]

A lethal double standard

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 [...]

Media covers Israel more than any other ME nation

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 [...]