• 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 […]

Sri Lanka slams Norwegian Minister

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 the [...]

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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 – divested from [...]

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 for financial gifts to NGOs. [...]

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. Now [...]

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 muslim [...]

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 of what [...]

“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 Gilbert, [...]

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 to [...]

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

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Aftonbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden, owned by the country’s national trade union center (LO) and [...]

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 has entrenched [...]

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 Mr.Iversen [...]

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 closing [...]

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 the transition [...]

Palestine Committee: “Possible organ-trade creates knot Israel-Sweden”

Palestine Committee webpage on Boström's article in Aftonbladet

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 [...]