Erik Solheim is Norway’s Minister of Development Aid and Minister of the Environment. His extensive negotiations on Sri Lanka has made him, at least among some, an extremely unliked man. In a post on the official website of Sri Lanka’s…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Take action! Contact the Swedish embassy here!
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Help us keep Scandinavia clean and free of racism! Go here, edit the letter in accordance with your thoughts, and press: “Send to the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv”. Don’t wait. Do it now. Tell your friends. Now go here…
JP: Firm denies allegations made by Norwegian NGO
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From the JP: Norwatch – an “independent news service” that “conducts critical journalistic investigation n Norwegian businesses in developing countries” – claimed in an article on its Web site last week that BlackRock – a premier provider of global investment…
Tax exempt on aid to Israel- under consideration
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From Verdens Gang, Norway’s largest daily. Tax exempted aid under consideration 31.08.2009 kl. 05:46 Kilde: © NTB Tax exemption may end for donations to organizations which provide millions to settlers in the territories Israel has occupied on the Westbank. The…
Video: Willoch’s analysis is misleading and simplistic
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Former premier Kåre Willoch (Conservatives) has for years (recent example in Aftenposten) claimed to find support for his allegations of Israeli atrocities in the findings of Israeli historian Benny Morris. Here in a video from Norway’s largest Pro-Israel organization –…
VG: Nazi mayor helped jewish boy survive
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Unauthorized translation from Norway’s largest daily Verdens Gang (VG) on August 25th. If a Nazi-sympathizer could risk his life to save a jewish child, then there is always hope. Maybe gradually more people will open their eyes to how there…
Editorial on Boström: “The disgusting brew”
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Unauthorized translation from DagenMagazinet: Aftonbladet is Sweden’s largest newspaper. On August 17th the newspaper, in its culture section, printed a long “article” by freelance journalist Donald Boström. The article was a disgusting anti-Semitic brew. Aftonbladet’s editors should have discovered that…
“Dr.Mads” slips into Gaza, is angered by difficult question
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Norwegian dog lovers hoping to hear more about Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne’s family dog – a five year old golden retriever by the name of Maja – were disappointed this morning when Mr. Lohne failed to mention Maja with…
WWII: Norway received 37 jewish children
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From the paper edition of Norway’s largest daily Verdens Gang (VG). Notice how the section chief feared that taking in more children would encourage anti-Semitism. Oddly reminiscent of Dagsavisen’s Mr.Iversen, who the other day warned that Israeli reaction to Boström’s…
Tulip:Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
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Key segments in the Norwegian labour movement are obsessed with Israel, a nation they would have ignored if it had been populated primarily by arab muslims. Update from TULIP below: Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews By admin…
Sweden: Where extremism is entrenched
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Unauthorized translation from Document.no: Jon Hustad has interviewed the former editor of culture in Svenska Dagbladet, Peter Luthersson, on Aftonbladet’s organ-article. The newspaper turned hostile towards Israel already after the six-days war. Now this intellectual Israel-criticism is meeting with new…
Jew-horror movie possible source of information for Donald Boström
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While this site has no way of knowing, the movie below might have been one of Mr. Boström’s sources for his infamous Aftonbladet body-snatcher article. Yet we do not have any evidence that this is so, so we refrain from…
Klassekampen: Why Sweden should not apologize
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Many a poor soul is baffled over how to explain his take on the Boström-scandal these days. Those who were in favor of publishing the Muhammed cartoons are now less certain whether the freedom of the press extends to the…
Aftonbladet sanitizes English translation of Boström’s article
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Ilya Meyer warns about how Aftonbladet has published an English translation of Mr. Boström’s article – and sanitized it in the process! Read Ilya Meyer’s full post here and follow the links. An excerpt: What Aftonbladet has done is to…
Palestine Committee: “Possible organ-trade creates knot Israel-Sweden”
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In 2008 the Norwegian Palestine Committee received NOK 3 700 000 from the state. This site is not familiar with how much it makes by peddling t-shirts emblazoned with the text “Boycott Israel” and a graphic of a bleeding orange…
Progress Party: Norway not to finance hate-propaganda
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From the daily Vårt Land (Our Country), by Lise Marit Kalstad, on August 26th. Notice how Hansen (Christian Democrats) first accuses the Progress Party of being ignorant, then at the end comes around and is in agreement with the salient…
Aftonbladet’s defence is crumbling
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From IlyaMeyer.com: The Swedish Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz commented this afternoon on the Aftonbladet affair. He says that the government could go much further in its criticism of the Aftonbladet article without in any way contravening the constitution. “The…
Dagsavisen: reaction to Boström article is “rabid”
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Dagsavisen’s take on Boström’s blood libel appears to be that the Israeli reaction is politically opportunistic and helps create anti-Semitism. What Mr. Iversen does here is to spin the scandal over Boström’s smear into criticism against Israel. It’s crude, but no mean feat…
On Boström: “There is a fine line…”
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From the Swedish (This is a Norwegian blog) quality newspaper SvD, by Cordelia Edvardson: Certainly we need to be very protective of the freedom of expression, but there is a fine line between the right, and sometimes the obligation, of…
DagenMagazinet: “Freedom of expression – in Swedish”
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From the editorial in DagenMagazinet on August 25th: Freedom of expression – in Swedish Sweden’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, Elisabet Bonniers, has condemned the anti-Semitism of a certain article in Sweden’s largest newspaper. But Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt distanced himself from…