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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Elsbeth Wessel’s new book The Jews...
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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...
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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 who has been transgressed against“....
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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 is time to cut off the tentacles of this malignant...
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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 in Norway? Foreign Minister’s answer:...
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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...
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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...
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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 of McDonald’s outlets…...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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The clip above is on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al Husseini (Read more about the clip on Tundra Tabloids). There are basically two perspectives on the Grand Mufti: the Robert Fisk school has it that he ended up as an ally to Hitler after being turned down by all democratic states...
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DagenMagazinet reports on how one of the men attacked during the January Gaza-riots of 2009 sustained injuries which will follow him for the rest of his life. Unauthorized translation: — I was subjected to violence on two occasions. First I was beaten with the flagpole of an Israeli flag which the jew-haters had taken,...
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NRK (State Broadcasting) reports that the head of PST, Norway’s Police Security Service, has expressed concern over the level of terror-threats against Norway. Increased radicalization Kristiansen tells of how PST has observed an increase in radicalization in certain muslim milieus. – This worries us considerably, and it is an increasing problem also outside of...
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Aftenposten’s Knut Olav Åmås has a full-page comment on Eirik Eiglad’s book “The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo” today. On the one hand, that’s good. Aftenposten is Norway’s second largest newspaper and Mr.Åmås is a savvy somebody. On the other hand, Eiglad’s book has already been covered in Spanish Midtskogen, French Philosemitism and JUIF.org, Finnish...
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Mohyeldeen Mohammad is a religious young immigrant who has been under a lot of strain recently. It is not getting any better. According to the police they are now concerned over Mr.Mohammed’s political views. Aftenposten writes: – We cannot comment on individual persons and cases, but in general I can say that we know...
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