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 Ministry of Defence Erik Solheim is accused of having looked the other way while...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- The Norwegian Government’s hypocrisy re-exposed: “the most evil company in the world” is the second largest share holder in “Norsk Hydro”The Norwegian Government’s hypocrisy re-exposed: “the most evil company in the world” is the second largest share holder in “Norsk Hydro” Brazilian Vale, which Norwegian Hydro has a tight partnership with, only accepts the bare minimum of social responsibility, according to a new poll where Greenpeace ranked the Norwegian Hydro partner as the “the world’s mo […]
- VG’s Hanne Skartveit: the great betrayalLifted from VG. Applause to Skartveit for this eminent oped The great betrayal Synagogue OSLO (AP) We were unable to protect our Jewish compatriots during the war. And today we are unable to give them the security they need. Do we simply not care? OpEd by Hanne Skartveit In the street where I lived for some years, just outside Washington, DC, we had a neighb […]
- One week after PM’s reassurance that nobody should live in fear in Norway – Justice Minister Grete Faremo to reassess Jewish community’s security needsLifted from Dagbladet, but also mentioned in other media. Faremo to reassess Synagogue security needs – Is in constant contact with police and the Police Security Services. The Minister of Justice Grete Faremo (Labour) is reviewing the safety precautions in place for the Synagogue in Oslo, and is in constant contact with the police and the police and the sec […]
- Rockets over Israel go untoldWhile the Norwegian media rightly now focuses on the ongoing atrocities in Syria, and even our FM has felt compelled to politely tell the naughty Assad regime off for the continuing blood bath, one may perhaps be sympathetic to editors’s decision to not cover news from Israel. However, since coverage of Israel continues to be tendentious and one-eyed, one mu […]
- Norwegian support for Israel at record highLifted from Vårt Land Record Norwegian support to Israel More Norwegians buy Israeli goods, provide financial support and join the pro-Israel organizations. By: Lise Marit Kalstad and Olav Solvang Norway set a new record in the import of goods from Israel in 2011. In the last year Norway purchased Israeli goods for NOK 722 million, the corresponding number f […]
- Norwegian People’s Aid failure to report on SyriaAt a time when the rest of the world are slowly, ever so gradually starting to notice the atrocities that go on in Syria (but also many other places on our beautiful planet), one would have thought that the Norwegian People’s Aid would at least have mentioned the word Syria, somewhere, anywhere, on its web pages. But nope, not a word, yet NRK, who cannot fin […]
- The PMs Holocaust Memorial Day speech in full“Dear all, This year marks 70 years since the “Danube” cast off from this quay, and embarked on a voyage of shame . 532 Jews were brutally stowed on board. Only nine returned. One of them was Samuel Steinmann. He is the last survivor. I’m especially glad you are here with us. Today we remember the millions of innocent people who were wiped out in History’s m […]
- Our deepest regret this could happen on Norwegian soilFinally, the first real step towards acknowledging our own role in the tragedy. Only after accepting responsibility, can the hard work of forgiveness and the arduous task of reconstructing relations begin. Lifted from Aftenposten (by Elisabeth Rodum and Halvor Hegtun) PM Jens Stoltenberg (Labour) deeply regretted the deportation of Norwegian Jews at the Holo […]
- Holocaust commemoration ceremony today at 1500 hrs in OsloLifted from Dagen.no, but also covered most other news outlets. For more details on the event itself, you can go to http://www.holocaustdagen.no/ Thinks Jens will apologize to the Jews Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to come up with a form of apology to the Norwegian Jews during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day today. Bjørn Arild Hatle […]
- Mixed signals from Norway as Holocaust commemoration ceremony is expected to bring a much awaited formal apology from Norway to its Jewish communityToday, at 3 PM, our PM Jens Stoltenberg is widely expected to officially and formally apologize to the Norwegian Jewish community for the state sponsored persecution and murder of Norwegian citizens with a Jewish background during the WWII. Whatever form that eventual apology finally would be presented as, does not detract from the perception that Norway con […]
Archive for August, 2009
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JP: Firm denies allegations made by Norwegian NGO
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 management, risk management and advisory services with assets under management totalling $1.373 trillion –...
Tax exempt on aid to Israel- under consideration
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 Ministry of Finance in consultation with the Foreign Ministry is considering tightening tre rules...
Video: Willoch’s analysis is misleading and simplistic
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 – With Israel for Peace (MIFF) – we hear what Morris himself thinks of this....
VG: Nazi mayor helped jewish boy survive
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 would not be any talk of boycott of Israel if it was an arab...
Editorial on Boström: “The disgusting brew”
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 at first glance. But when this obviously did not happen, it begs the question...
“Dr.Mads” slips into Gaza, is angered by difficult question
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 as much as a word. Instead Mr.Lohne writes about the infamous NORWAC doctor Mads...
WWII: Norway received 37 jewish children
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 blood-libel story was rabid and might encourage anti-Semitism. Mr. Iversen even had the audacity...
Tulip:Union-owned Swedish newspaper spreads blood libel against Jews
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 Aftonbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden, owned by the country’s national trade union...
Sweden: Where extremism is entrenched
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 muslem immigrants, who are even more hostile towards Israel. Luthersson is afraid that extremism...
Jew-horror movie possible source of information for Donald Boström
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 making the claim. Yet we would like to remind our readers of how Dagsavisen’s...
Klassekampen: Why Sweden should not apologize
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 racist smear of Boström, while those who were adamant that Sweden did right in...
Aftonbladet sanitizes English translation of Boström’s article
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 compound its calumny by filtering out the most offensive parts of its article in...
Palestine Committee: “Possible organ-trade creates knot Israel-Sweden”
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 (Top right). What we do know is that on August 23rd they caught on...
Progress Party: Norway not to finance hate-propaganda
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 point – improved financial controls are required for development aid to work as intended....
Aftonbladet’s defence is crumbling
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 government has considerable leeway in such matters. A minister can without risk say something...
Dagsavisen: reaction to Boström article is “rabid”
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 technically speaking. European Championship in anti-Semitism In his book ”Å gjøre en forskjell” Foreign...
On Boström: “There is a fine line…”
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 the press to report on defects, flaws and suspected violations on the one side,...
DagenMagazinet: “Freedom of expression – in Swedish”
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 his own ambassador. This is unfortunate. Because it means that Carl Bildt does not...