Norway, Israel and the Jews
The screenshot above is from the article “Worst we have experienced” in Verdens Gang (VG), one of Norway’s largest newspapers (Journalists Milde C.Melland and Atle Jørstad). The article reports on the experiences of some Norwegian girls at the music festival of Roskilde in Denmark. Attending this festival is something of a rite of passage....
Arab aggression against Israel started long before there were any Jewish settlers on the West Bank, indeed even before there was an Israel at all. Jewish settlers occupy only a fraction of the land that Muslims occupy in Israel. Yet NRK attributes tremendous importance to the settlements. It is because of the settlements, NRK...
Above and below, a commentary on the Israel-lobby in the USA, referring mainly to the work of Walt and Mearsheimer. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
Two NIJ-street irregulars report: 1) A Jewish professor in Trondheim is interviewed over three pages in the communist daily Klassekampen. The professor is in support of a boycott of Israel. See above and below. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
Philosemitism operates out of Belgium/France, but sneaks a glance up at the Scandinavian peninsula from time to time: Norway, Israel and the Jews (Media coverage: Four dead Norwegians equal nine dead Jihadis) a établi que la mort récente de quatre soldats norvégiens en Afghanistan a fait l’objet d’une couverture médiatique d’égale importance à celle de...
Norway’s interests lie in the nordic region, with the EU, USA and with Russia. As for the Middle East, we obviously need to cooperate with OPEC. But how is it noble and necessary of Norway to seek to be the midwife of a Palestinian state? What psychological and political mechanisms are at work here?...
Robert Capa’s famous photo “Falling Militiaman” has been revealed to be – at least in part – a fraud. In the commentary “The twin of war” (Krigens Tvilling) of Saturday July 3rd 2010, Dagsavisen’s Anders Heger suggests that the photo is a perfect illustration of the face of war. Now Anders Heger is the...
The Christian daily Idag today reports that NRK’s new interview with Gerstenfeld stands up to scrutiny. As opposed to the previous one, in which journalist not only asked the questions, but also made up the answers. Sadly, the new NRK interview does not let Gerstenfeld speak about this, nor about how the journalist in...
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The screenshot above is from an article on Burma in Development Today. As we can read, Norway is preparing to invest in Burma through Norfund. Let us compare this to Norwegian politics on Israel: Norway has divested from Israeli Elbit, the government has forced the Armed Forces College to cancel a seminar rather than...
An article raising some very poignant points, by Citizen H. A few days ago, Aftenposten ran an article on the top dictatorial states based on the list assembled by Foreign Policy Magazine. The article, well, in reality just a summary of the original article in the above mentioned article was puzzling from more than more perspective. After all,...
The Norweigan media economy shows us that the four Norwegian soldiers recently killed in Afghanistan are equal in value to the nine dead Jihadis on the Mavi Manara. Here are the figures: On June 28th Norway learned of how the Taliban had killed four of our soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan. From June...
A little while back, NRK’s correspondent to Israel Sidsel Wold interviewed Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, author of “Behind the humanitarian mask”. After Sidsel Wold lost the tapes from the interview she put together a commentary on Gerstenfeld instead. When Idag.no pointed out that the resulting broadcast was in effect a falsification, Wold questioned Idag.no’s...