• Malmö: Ever since I came here people have been shouting ‘fucking Jew’ at me
    Anyone concerned for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Scandinavia who is not reading Sweden, Israel and the Jews is robbing themselves blind. If you follow Sweden, this is the place to go. Ilya Meyer has a larger archive. On the other hand Norwegian newspapers, with exception being made for Aftenposten, are not particularly interested in [...] […]
  • ‘Jews themselves wrote lists of whom were to die in concentration camps’
    The University of Oslo wants to fire a history professor – appearently for having violated its health, environment and safety (HES) code. Protesters say this has nothing to do with HES and everything to do with the Univeristy curtailing the freedom of expression of its staff. One of the protestors is Professor of Law Jan [...] […]
  • Norwegian funnymen fearful of insulting Muhammed
    Norwegian comedian Thomas Seltzer. Picture from NRK P3. In 2006 funnyman Otto Jespersen demonstrated his courageous wit by torching the Bible. When asked why he did not burn the Koran, he replied: “We considered that too, but could not get hold of a copy. What is more I am 52 years old now and reckon [...] […]
  • Støre and Syria, Bishops’ Boycott
    FM Jonas Gahr Støre met with Syria’s FM Muallem on Monday8th. Nothing much in the media about that, not at all. Syria hardly registers at all. In the clip above you see a program from Syrian television. Does not this look like the kind of society Norwegians ought to be worried over? Remember [...] […]
  • VG on Bishops’ Boycott
    Verdens Gang (VG) - Norway's largest daily Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest daily. In today’s editorial the newspaper claims that the Bishops Boycott is, pretty much, a walk down nonsense street. Unauthorized translation: We believe that the Bishops ought to bury the though of a boycott of trade as soon as possible. They receive the [...] […]
  • No Press Accreditation for PR-woman Yngvild Mortensen
    Qassam rockets: from Ynet news Dagbladet reports on how freelancing journalist Yngvild Mortensen has her knickers in a twist as Israel refuses to grant her press accreditation. The reason Ms.Mortensen is not getting one is because she is a freelancer, and not in steady employ. When one looks back upon the long series of biased [...] […]
  • Is Dagbladet confusing Gaza with the Westbank?
    Dagbladet attributes this picture to Gaza, by Reuters, Elilana Aponte and Scanpix. The picture above is from an article in Dabladet titled “New peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians“. The first half hour the picture did not have any explaining subtext, which easily might have lead readers to believe the picture shows an Israeli kicking [...] […]
  • FM Støre, Dr Mads, Syversen on the Bishops’ Boycott
    Norwegian Bishops have come up with the idea that boycotting Israel just might be a fine idea. Foreign Minister Jonas Ghar Støre is opposed to a boycott and says so in today’s Verdens Gang – Norway’s largest daily. Unauthorized translation: – It is good that the Church speaks out for the opprssed, but the Church’s main [...] […]
  • Editor slams Bishops’ Boycott
    DagenMagazinet For Vebjørn Selbekk “freedom of expression” is more than just words, as is “courage”. After publishing an article on the cartoon-war in 2006, he became embroiled in it himself, receiving only luke-warm support from the Norwegian intelligensia and political establishment as he stood up for his editorial right to publish news-stories on relevant […]
  • Johan Galtung finds Gaza ‘a replay of the Warsaw ghetto’
    The Russel Tribunal for Palestine is supported by among other Ilan Pappe, Ken Loach and John Pilger. There is also a Norwegian onboard, Mr. Johan Galtung – above behind the rostrum at what appears to be a Turkish university. Below you see a section from a transcript from his lecture, where Mr.Galtung identifies Israel’s policies [...] […]

Is Afghanistan like Warsaw?

During Cast Lead, Hamas successfully hid behind their own civilian population. Their diabolical strategy left approximately 1400 Palestinian civilians dead. Now Norwegian politician Bjørnar Moxnes from Red (Rødt) claims in an op-ed in Dagsavisen that 2500 Afghan civilians have been killed during combat operations. While it is uncertain where Mr.Moxnes has this figure from, it [...]

L’écrivain norvégien Jahn Otto Johansen inquiet de la montée de l’antisémitisme en Europe

For better and for worse, Norway is accustomed to being so far away from the rest of the world that most of the time they do not even know we are there. When a post from this blog is translated into French in just a few hours, this may be indicative of a situation where [...]

Hezbollah has fans in Ireland, Norway

The screen-shot above is from Irish MarcHumphrys.com and depicts an Irishman showing his support for Hezbollah at a demonstration in Dublin, April 2008.  Marc Humphry comments: “In the conflict between the secular liberal democracy of Israel and its reactionary religious totalitarian enemies Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran, the western left, for some reason, has sided [...]

Safed-Tzfat translates review of Eiglad’s book

It appears that Midtstuen is not the only Spanish-speaking blog showing an interest in Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo”. Safed-Tzfat has been burning the midnight oil and translated the entire (rather lenghty) book-review by Christian Tau, posted on Z-Word Blog. Excerpt below, visit Safed-Tzfat for the entire review in Spanish:

Las 103 páginas [...]

Aftenposten: Jew-hatred runs deep

Elsbeth Wessel's book on Jews in Austria

Aftenposten today runs a full-page op-ed by Jahn Otto Johansen, a well known Norwegian writer, on European Jew-hatred. He points out that an array of new surveys show that anti-Semitism is increasing throughout Europe, points out that Austria has an especially sordid history in this respect, and reviews [...]

Aftenposten covers anti-Semitism in Malmö

Aftenposten today publishes a story on anti-Semitism in Malmö. On the one hand this is good: Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers and the situation in Malmö has up to now received little – if any – attention from the Norwegian media. On the other hand this is old news – why are Norwegian [...]

Danish newspaper Politikken settles with plaintiffs over cartoon dispute

Aftenposten: Politiken apologizes for Muhammed cartoon

Aftenposten today reports on how Danish newspaper Politiken has settled with muslim groups who were upset by Politiken’s re-publishing of the Muhammed cartoon in 2008. While Politiken does not apologize for having published the cartoon, nor promises to refrain from doing so again, the newspaper does apologize to “everyone [...]

Irish muslims blame Irish Jews for Dubai killing

Irish muslims suspect "scheming Zionist" Irish Jews

Muslim group MPAC.ie believes that Irish Jews are behind the recent Dubai killing of Hamas chieftain Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, stating: “We hope that this sordid affair will serve to remind governments of the threat this Zionist brute poses to all who deal with it. It [...]

Opposition questions Støre about anti-Semitism

From the web-pages of the Foreign Ministry

The above is a screen-shot from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where it is only found in Norwegian. Unauthorized translation:

From representative Øyvind Vaksdal (Progress Party) to the Foreign Minister: Has the Foreign Minister changed his view or will he still contribute to combat anti-Semitic attitudes [...]

Dagbladet on Islamic network at Oslo University College

In the aftermath of the ruccus over Mohyeldeen Mohammed’s extremist views, the media (and public) has showed a renewed interest in Norwegian Islamisim. Dagbladet’s Astrid Meland has written a long article on conservative Islam at the Univeristy College of Oslo where the muslim network Islamnet is active (see Islamnet.no). There are a lot of pictures [...]

NRK: This is how Mossad operates and kills

NRK (State Broadcasting) today publishes Laila Ø.Bakken’s article “This is how Mossad operates and kills“. The lengthy article is introduced thus: “Poisoned chocolate, poison squirted into the ear and explosive telephones. The legendary Israeli intelligence service Mossad has many ways in which to kill“. Ms.Bakken then proceeds to inform the reader of how “the chief [...]

Hezbollah rally in front of Louvre

As noticed previously Norwegian author Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” has been met with quite a lot of interest in France, receiving coverage on a score of websites. After watching the clip above, this makes sense. The flags of Hezbollah, the cries of “Death to Jews”, the burning [...]

Eiglad's book arouses interest in France

Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” is arousing interest in France.  Although we have yet to see this interest translate into sales, this is a promising start.

As mentioned earlier the sites Philosemitism and JUIF.org have  published on Eiglad’s book. Now Union des Patrones et des Professionnels Juifs des France and Debriefing.org, both with [...]

Let's not talk about Malmö

The Norwegian media is keen on reporting about events in Israel. Right now the most recent stories are, according to Webavisen (an indexing service): 1) Here is Israel’s new super-weapon, on a new Israeli drone 2)  Important to react against violence in Gaza, a reader’s comment on Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo”, [...]

штрейкбрехер по имени Eirik Eiglad

Eirik Eiglad’s “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” was reviewed by Aftenposten’s Knut Olav Åmås on February 17th. Although Aftenposten was the first Norwegian newspaper to cover the book, it had at the time already been commented upon by Dutch, Finnish, Belgian, Spanish and US blogs. And now we find that on 17th – the very [...]