Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld has written a book about anti-Semitism in Norway and NRK’s correspondent to Jerusalem Sidsel Wold does not approve. In an attempt to prove Gerstenfeld wrong, again without touching upon the contents of his book, it appears…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Jewish children bullied in Trøndelag
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DagenMagazinet reports “Jewish children bullied in Trøndelag“. Unauthorized translation: Satisfied with response — I have been notified that Jewish children are being harassed over their background. But except from this, it is a while since we last experienced any serious…
Israel-lobby stops photo exhibit
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We were still reeling from the news about Israel’s homo-imperialism (see yesterday’s post) when we stumbled upon this: April 20th; NRK reports that Associated Press is refusing to let one Stuart Franklin exhibit their photographs from the Hamas-Israel war in…
What is the Lobby?
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Until now this blog has presented shorter posts on current events. We have now started piecing the facts together in order to see the larger pattern. Our approach is to ask the same questions asked by Walt and Mearsheimer in…
Stop Israel’s homo-imperialism!
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On April 14th journalist Kjetil Hegna, from the magazine Utrop, covers an Oslo- conference on gender and sexuality in a cross-cultural context. One of the speakers was Haneen Maikey, a spokeswoman for a Palestinian organization for homosexuals, bi-sexuals and trans-genderites.…
40 years border dispute Russia-Norway finally to end
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Russia and Norway have finally, after 40 years of negotiations, settled on how to draw the borders of jurisdiction in the Barents sea. Commentators disagree on why this agreement has been reached precisely now. State Broadcasting Authorities (NRK)’ Gro Holm…
NRK calls kettle black: ‘A message of hate’
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An NRK journalist recently suggested, in no uncertain terms, that this site was a “prejudice-spreader” disseminating a “message of hate”. Hopefully he will elaborate on this hypothesis in an NRK broadcast soon. In such a broadcast he could lean on…
Apology to NRK’s Webjørn Espeland
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Webjørn Espeland on “Israeli voices”: On April 20th this site posted a transcript of NRK’s Webjørn Espeland interviewing Benjamin Weinthal. When Webjørn Espeland claimed that according to several Israeli voices “Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in Northern Europe”, we…
NRO on Oslo Freedom Forum
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National Review’s senior editor Jay Nordlinger is right here in Oslo right now, even as this is being published, in order to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum. Excerpt from Oslo Journal below: Also, I see on the schedule that Yoani…
Norvège et ailleurs: fantasmons sur le puissant lobby pro-israélien
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In Belgium recently, a newspaper referred to the firebombing of a synagogue as a “minor event”. Under circumstances such as these, ever vigilant Philosémitisme again finds the energy to comment on Norway. Because she has nothing else to do with…
NRKgate: complaint letter to Hans-Tore Bjerkaas
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This post is related to the controversy surrounding the interview NRK’s Sidsel Wold made with Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:07:03 +0300 To: info@nrk.no From: Manfred Gerstenfeld <manfredg@netvision.net.il> Subject: attention Mr. Hans-Tore Bjerkaas, complaint COMPLAINT AGAINST SIDSEL…
The Great Benefactor
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Until now this blog has presented shorter posts on current events. We have now started piecing the facts together in order to see the larger pattern. Our approach is to ask the same questions asked by Walt and Mearsheimer in…
Gov wants to shut down anti-Semitic Egyptian broadcast
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NRK reports: France has closed down reception from an Egyptian TV channel because of its vehemently anti-Semitic broadcasts. Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (Labor) is ascertaining whether the same can be done here in Norway. Here is a transcript from the TV…
Death-threat from Mulla Krekar
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Mulla Krekar has made death-threats against two Kurds after they burned pages from the Koran in protest against how Saddam Hussein had used quotes from these pages to legitimize the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, which cost more than 100…
Manufacturing consent: Norwegian journalists on ‘Bibi’
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In today’s Verdens Gang (VG) daredevil author Aslak Nore writes an editorial on Israel where he, surprise surprise, voices skepticism against Netanyahu. To such an extent is right-wing extremism rampant in Israel, Nore writes, that intelligent young people flee the…
Is Norway in denial?
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In an April 21st right-of-reply (see above) to Vårt Land, a Norwegian daily, Manfred Gerstenfeld of the Jerusalem Centre suggests that Norwegians are in denial about the realities of our elites’ attitudes towards Israel as well as the relationship between…
Book review: ‘Anti-Semitism in Norway’
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“Anti-Semitism” in Norway is the most recent, most comprehensive and well-documented work on contemporary anti-Semitism in Norway on the market today. Anti-Semitism in Norway The recently published book ”Anti-Semitism in Norway” includes updated and translated chapters from “Behind the Humanitarian…
Understands, but does not condone Jewhatred
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Here is a fine example of how to distort reality a little bit: There is quite a bit of talk about anti-Semitism these days and for many people it is important to twist it into criticism of Israel. So after…
“Jew” used as curse in Trondheim
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State Broadcasting Authority NRK reports that the word “Jew” is used as an insult in Trondheim. Rita Abrahamsen of the Mosaic Religious community in Trondheim says she is in possession of material showing that Jewish children in Trondheim are being…
Government moves to quell Gilbert’s hospital uprising
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Mads Gilbert has led a group of doctors at the Univeristy hospital of Northern Norway (UNN) in a blockade – not against Israel this time, but against his own country. Now the government is making moves to restore order. The…