• 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 […]

Christian Democrats quarrel over Israel

Christian Democrats

Can a suitably critical perspective on Israel be a decisive factor for a Norwegian political party? In order to fix steadily dropping ratings, segments of the Christian Democrats are looking to reinvent themselves. Second deputy leader Inger Lise Hansen has seven points of change on her list – three of which are on [...]

Norway ignores Malmö

Actually Malmö is getting a fair bit of attention from the Norwegian medai – as Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård is residing there. As for the debate concerning anti-Semitism in Malmö, the only Norwegian media to touch it are the bloggers at Document.no.

Ilya Meyer, a Swedish blogger, presents the situation very well in Sweden at [...]

Israeli PM share experiences

The clip above is from Hildegunn‘s. The blog is in Norwegian but drop by for the clips. You do need a laugh from time to time.

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Støre talks the talk

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is as quick to criticize Israel for human rights transgressions as he is to kow-tow to the slave-owning sheikhs of UAE in the hope of opening up the emirates for Norwegian Statoil. The media lets him get away with this. The intellectuals go “ah, well, anti-Semitism is a great evil [...]

Document.no on Malmö: The Jews are again the canary-birds

The establishment ignores not only Document.no’s Hans Rustad, but the issues that he deals with. This is hugely unfortunate. An excerpt from The Jews are again the canary-birds:

It is true: Jews are leaving Malmö and many are leaving Sweden. They dare not live there, first [...]

Bergen rector: No boycott of Israel

Logo of the University of Bergen

Rector Sigmund Grønmo of Bergen University was recently quoted in the media for having said that the was “open” for a debate on boycotting Israel. He was criticized by some and supported by others. Now he writes on the University Website that:

I was invited as a speaker at the [...]

LO, COSATU and the Socialist Left

COSATU

LO is Norway’s largest TUC. When Minister of Development Erik Solheim (Socialist Left) visited South Africa in February 2009, LO wrote him a letter asking him to meet with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In terms of Norway’s relationship to Israel and the Jews, we see the following:

LO

In his May 1st [...]

Newspapers on Jews in Malmö

Hits on Webavisen when searching for "Malmö"

Jews in the Swedish city of Malmö are made to feel insecure. They are threatened and the authorities are unable, or unwilling, to help. Swedish newspapers such as Skånskan.se are covering the situation. Here is an excerpt from Israeli Haaretz, which is doing the same:

Malmo’s Jewish community has [...]

Oslo: l'ambassade d'Israël gêne et est obligée de déménager

Posted on Philosemitism and Juif.org:

Le quotidien Aftenposten a publié un article (consultable sur lesite du journal) sur les raisons pour lesquelles l’ambassade d’Israël à Oslo est obligée de quitter l’immeuble qu’elle occupe au Parkveien (Avenue du Parc) et de chercher à se loger ailleurs. Ont-ils fait quelque chose de répréhensible ? Mais pas du tout. Le problème est qu’on continue à [...]

Cyber Solidarity Post – NIJ is Seismic Shock

Z-word reports that blogger Seismic Shock has exposed a clergyman’s association with extremists and holocaust deniers. The British Police have responded by paying the blogger an informal visit, during which they persuaded him to delete his blog. Their efforts were to no avail. They pounced on the wrong blogger. Seismic Shock is not [...]

Jews leave Malmö, Sweden

In February 2009 the Progress Party pointed to the Swedish city of Malmö as an example of how integration is more challenging than it is political correct to observe.  More to the point, Progress Party leader Siv Jensen claimed that Malmö was an example of how also Norway may be stealth-Islamized in the future.  Siv [...]

More talkbacks on Israel than on Afghanistan

Dagsavisen: Norwegian soldier killed by road-bomb in Afghanistan

Above we see Dagsavisen’s article “Norwegian soldier killed by road-bomb in Afghanistan” by journalist Nils-Inge Kruhaug. Obviously this is highly relevant news for Norwegian readers. There are approximately 600 Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan and their families and friends are worried for them and eager to read about [...]

Media reports Israeli grunts to receive ´miracle socks´

The extent to which Norwegian newspapers follow Israel is quite remarkable. Several newspapers are now publishing an NTB article on how Israeli soldiers are being issued odorless socks. From Adresseavisen, a regional newspaper servicing the Trondheim area:

All new infantry recruits are to receive the new socks in March, the Israeli military informs.
- It may sound [...]

Victory for Palestine-Lobby as Israeli Embassy forced from premises

Aftenposten article "Israel will leave Parkveien"

Aftenposten today printed an article (above – also on internet) on how Israel’s embassy to Norway is being forced to evacuate their current residence in Parkveien (Park Road) and seek a new venue elsewhere.  If they have done anything wrong? Oh, no, not at all. But people keep showing [...]

Zealots in power

Photgraph from Dagens Næringsliv April 1st 2009, Photo by Lise Åserud/Scanpix

Historian Tarjei.J.Vågstøl writes that when Nils Butenschøn assumed leadership of Palfront in 1969 it was with the vision of winning “entire organizations and parties” for Palestine. A brief look at the Socialist Left (SV), combined with a glance at Labor, suggests that Mr.Butenschøn has [...]