Norway, Israel and the Jews
Gudmund Hernes is a researcher at FAFO and a professor at BI, a Norwegian business school. He is furthermore a Labor party icon. In Morgenbladet July 30th Gudmund Hernes writes a scathing review of a commentary by Aftenposten’s Jan E.Hansen. One of the reasons is that Jan E. Hansen has called Israel “the only...
Norway enjoys splendid relationships with authoritarian states around the world, with Saudi Arabia being just one example. With Israel however, Norway enjoys a “chilly” relationship. The logic runs like this: Why? Because Israel does bad things. But Israel does less bad things than Saudi Arabia? Yes, but still. Here is a tangible reason why...
When Norwegian journalists report about Israel (which they do alot), it is to report about conflict. When they same journalists report about other ME countries (which they do less often), they seem more likely to be reporting on hummus or diving or something similar. The result is that Norwegians get the impression that Israel...
NTNU is one of the most prestigous universities in Norway. It is also home to a handful of academics who are extraordinarily keen on assigning blame to the USA and Israel. As for the interviewer above, Kim Dino Saur, this is actaully his name. He says himself it was just “a matter of time”...
Is it a blog? Is it a grassroots movement? Is it a publishing house? Document.no is all of them and more. It also publishes in English. Here is an excerpt from “Inspirational and painful loss” on Norwegian casualties in Afghanistan: A debate has been raised after the loss of four invaluable Norwegian soldiers in...
The map above shows the countries supporting the campaign against violence against children. Is Israel there? Israel is such a small country you can hardly see it, but it’s there all right. See which countries are not? This is yet another example of how the Norwegian establishment has managed to estrange itself from the...
Guest post by McGonagall, an NIJ-street irregular As the first week of official summer holidays comes to an end, vacationers around the country have have been treated to the usual summer news doldrums, nothing happens, or if it does, journalists cannot be bothered to write about it, and self proclaimed humanists seem to have hung away their...
In medieval times, society heartlessly rid itself of the mad and the sad by paying mariners to take them away. In today’s Europe the inmates are running the asylums, and the asylums are crusading against Israel. The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby, which our media corps does not acknowledge the existence of, is preparing to equip a...
The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby has no equal. It is by far the most efficient, powerful and well-organized network of its kind. It is now preparing to send a “humanitarian” ship to Gaza. The initiative is headed by LO (TUC). TV2 writes that the initiative has received support from the following organizations: Labor – Hordaland chapter,...
Snapshot picks up on the nomination of Manfred Gerstenfeld for the Norwegian Media Victim award of Stray Spetalen. We have copied the entire post this time, rather than just an excerpt. Visit Snapshot anyway, it’s an up-to-date, intelligent website: — And the Nominee for Norwegian Media Victim of the Year Is… Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld...
First the military was forced to cancel a seminar rather than allow an Israeli officer to speak. Then two Oslo boroughs declared they were going to boycott Israel, and a Trondheim cinema pulled down an Israeli film in order to replace it with a Palestinian narrative. Now, according to Nationen, the dairy company Tine...
Aftenposten today lets us know that membership in radical Islamist groups may give grounds for asylum in Norway. The reasoning goes that Norway cannot be certain that members of such groups, if evicted from Norway, will not be tortured or killed in their home countries. This is the Mulla-Krekar-logic again. One of the organizations...
A column in the Jerusalem Post suggests that the “narrative of Israel is being communicated by those who dislike it”. This holds true in Norway, at least, and the column also mentions two Norwegian nationals: Norwegian Aid Committee members Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse bring us Eyes in Gaza with a cover festooned with the beaming...
Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers. It’s chief editor is a former marxist and one of her journalists, who often covers Israel, is a former Palestine-activist who raised funds for the anti-US insurgents in Iraq. Aftenposten today reports that according to Norwegian terror-expert Thomas Hegghammar, Al-Qaida has a manichean world view dividing nations...
Aftenposten’s chief editor is a former marxist and one of her journalists is a former Palestine-activist. Yet Aftenposten rejects allegations that it gives preference to the Palestinian narrative. The screenshot above is of an article by journalist Jon Olav Larsen in the latest issue of Karmel, a magazine published by a Christian organization by...
The screenshot above is from an editorial in Adresseavisen on July 8th. Citing an unnamed Israeli humanitarian NGO, Adresseavisen claims that “more than 40 percent of the West Bank is settled by Israelis”. CBS News sets the figure to 1 percent. While it is correct that one NGO – Palestinemonitor – claims that 40...
Dagbladet today runs an NTB article on the Libyan ship Amalthea, which is said to be carrying 2000 tons of aid to Gaza. The ship is financed by a humanitarian organization bearing the name of Moamar Gadaffi. The article reminds us of recent history with the following sentence: “Nine people were killed in the...
On July 8th three men, all three residents of Norway, were arrested for planning to execute an act of terrorism. There has so far been a lot of noise and very few signals. General wisdom is that the police know less than they would like, and tell the public only a fraction of what...
Stian Bromark is a Norwegian author and journalist. In the weekly Ny Tid of July 9th 2010, Bromark comments on Giblert Achcar’s book “The Arabs and the Holocaust” on the competition between narratives. Bromark writes: “Holocaust is not as large a trauma as it is in Europe, and thereby there is less knowledge. The...
The screenshot above is from Trond Berg Eriksen’s review of Nicholson Baker’s “Menneskerøyk” (Norwegian translation) in Morgenbladet. The review is fair enough except at times it is difficult to understand whether Eriksen is endorsing Baker’s stance or merely sketching out the book’s contents. This becomes especially important in a section of the review devoted...