Norway, Israel and the Jews
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 Israel....
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...
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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...
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 and foremost out of consideration to their children....
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 meeting in the Student...
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...
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 complained about harassment by extreme...
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...
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 Seismic...
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....
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 current events. As you can see in...
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. -...
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 up to harass them, you...
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 even won government. Here are some hightlights: “Nazi nurse turned...
Jerusalem Post reports Anti-Semitism in Europe highest since WWII. “Classical anti-Semitism is changing, and it’s been replaced with a new anti-Semitism, which takes its shape in the form of unbridled attacks against the idea of a Jewish state” stated a spokesman for the Jewish Agency at a conference in Jerusalem. In today’s Dagsavisen journalist Roger...
Moribund Dagbladet’s Jonas Sverrison Rasch today writes an article on Israeli politics under the heading “Netanyahu blocks peace negotiations“. While the heading is an editorial choice, the journalist does stand responsible for the actual content of his article. Mr.Rach writes: “Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu today stated that the West Bank will be part...
Y-net news.com reports on the boycott-debate at Bergen University, which might or might not be about to rear its ugly head. The situation is still unclear.Where has Y-net learned what and are their sources better than ours? After what happened at NTNU, where a boycott proposal somehow slipped onto the board’s agenda and was...
In terms of covering Norway the Belgium-based blog Philosemitisme is now ahead of NIJ. In a recent post Philosemitisme refers to an article in Aftenposten by Knut Olav Åmås: “Boycott académique d’Israël ? M. Knut Olav Åmås, rédacteur culturel et des débats d’Aftenposten, écrit un commentaire sur l’éventualité d’un boycott académique d’Israël par des...
The head of PST – the Police Security Services in Norway is interviewed in this weekend edition (January 23/24th) of Dagens Næringsliv, a prominent and well respected business daily. She brings disturbing news. Unauthorized translation below: Age of extremists. “Extreme Islamicism” appears in the first sentence in PST’s last threat-evaluation. And the security service...