• 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 […]

Document.no: A different kind of anniversary

Document.no is a news-site which covers stories and perspectives Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street – and state broadcasting prefers to ignore.  While the Norwegian establishment pretends that Document.no does not exist, it is becoming increasingly evident that the little website is a valid expression of popular discontent which – in a democracy – ought not [...]

Mads Gilbert with Pål Steigan with Pol Pot

The photo above, from Frontlinjer (Front-lines) show us a young Mads Gilbert with Pål Steigan. At the time Mr.Steigan was a leading figure in the communist party AKP-ml, an organization which had a tremendous impact on Norwegian society until it crumbled in the 1980-ies. Mads Gilbert was a young acolyte in those days, but has [...]

“Eyes in Gaza” sold to Jordan, Sweden, Italy, Finland, UK

A highly distorted tale

“Eyes in Gaza” by NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse has as its purpose to make the reader disgusted with Israel and supportive of the “Palestinian cause” – and by extension Hamas. You will soon find the book, highly illustrated with colorful photographs of maimed and dying children, in a [...]

Dagsavisen: Gilbert compares Israel to Nazis - again

From Gilbert and Fosse's book "Eyes in Gaza": Mads Gilbert honestly believes this is how Jewish doctors had breakfast in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII

While we are witnessing what appears to be a return to solid reporting in both Aftenposten and Verdens Gang, moribund Dagsavisen is still sniping away. Today, an interview with NORWAC [...]

Erik Fosse - "from Marxism to Islam"

The article above, by Jørgen Eliassen on October 19th in 1985, summarizes a debate in communist daily Klasskampen. The title runs “KK-debate on Iran: From Marxism to Islam“. The white text in the black block says: “The main debaters have unquestionably been Trond Lindstad and Erik Fosse – they are the ones [...]

Erik Fosse stabbed in Gaza - understands frustration

NORWAC doctor Erik Fosse was stabbed yesterday while partaking in a rally in Gaza. He appears to have sustained a minor wound.

Unauthorized translation from Aftenposten:

– I take it as a sign of how desperate people are. They have cause to be dissatisfied with [...]

Extremists sully Norway’s reputation

When prominent Norwegians such as Mads Gilbert compare Cast Lead to the Warsaw ghetto of WWII this contaminates the entire debate. Consequentially other people jump on the bandwagon, assuming that if popular heroes like Mr.Gilbert does it, “so can I”. Desperate Measures has picked up on one example of how this attitude comes into expression:

Норвежские [...]

NRK anchor: 'One year since Israel attacked Gaza population'

Graphic from Tundra Tabloids

NRK tells us that Israel started the war on December 27th in 2008 and that this was a war on the ‘population’ of Gaza. NRK’s Sidsel Wold tells us that the problem consists of the Fatah-Hamas split and that the solution depends applying pressure to Israel, after which she [...]

Russia learns about Dr.Mads

From "Eyes in Gaza" by NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse

Russian Desperate Measures is keeping tabs on anti-Israel propaganda in contemporary Norway. They Russians know all too well what political extremists can do to a nation:

В государстве Норвегия мирно проживает скромный (и явно недооценённый мировой общественностью) герой наших дней д-р Мадс [...]

Mads Gilbert: Israel deliberately targeted children

From Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert's book "Eyes in Gaza" on Israel's allegedly "deliberate" war on children

NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse have written an entire book, “Eyes in Gaza”, richly illustrated with photographs, on how the IDF allegedly “deliberately targeted children” throughout the recent war in Gaza. The book is a best-seller [...]

Fosse:

p.219, by Erik Fosse
While talking to some other surgeons at the hosptial, all of which have worked and lived in Europe.

“- Hamas controls Gaza now, and it is safe, said dr.Sobhi. – Erik, you have noe idea of how it was here in 2004 and 2005. It was complete anarchy. People were subjected to griveous [...]

Gilbert on how to identify an insurgent

Eyes in Gaza page 168

“Most of the men we receive, are civilians. How I can know? On the few occasions when we do receive a fighter, Hamas’ intelligence of course comes and identifies (him). Yesterday there were one hundred percent civilians.
We have still not seen a single western journalist here, but many very skilled Palestinian and arab.
I [...]

Arab Media Lobby praises Norway

Ask a Norwegian journalist about the Arab Media Lobby and you will be waiting a long time for an answer. Regardless, the AML has good words for the Stoltenberg government. Excerpt below, read more here:

Norway’s fellow Europeans fall short of its moral clarity and political self-confidence, but nevertheless they are making small but meaningful steps [...]

Aftonbladet: Organ trade outside of Israel? No thanks!

Editor Jan Helin of Swedish Aftonbladet was only too happy to publish Donald Boström’s science fiction story about Israeli soldiers killing Palestinians in order to steal their organs. The same editor completely disregards real-life stories about organ trade involving destitute Palestinians selling their organs at flesh-markets in Jordan and Egypt. Why is this, one might [...]

“Eyes in Gaza” – the politics of emotion

Doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse worked in Shifa hospital during the Gaza war, and also doubled as news reporters. After the war they proceeded to publish the best-selling book “Eyes of Gaza”, now in its fourth edition, in what with certainty must be deemed the most spectacular public relations endeavour to be [...]