Aftenposten today reports that Labor (Arbeiderpartiet) politician Jan Bøhler has been contacted by “several” immigrants who warn of increased radicalization among Oslo-Muslims. Bøhler advocates a softee-softee-catchee-monkey approach, rather than demonize-and-persecute. He might have a point. Unauthorized translation: - This last year I have experienced more unrest. I have been approached by key players in...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- NUPI researcher thinks condemnation of Syria’s Assad is selective and opportunisticNAÏVE PRAYERS OVER SYRIA Aftenposten 2012 02 21 p 6, Helge Lurås Summary. Helge Lurås of NUPI expresses deep skepticism over the Syrian opposition, admitting the Assad regime is not exactly being a model of democracy of human rights and democracy, however it is having the support of perhaps 50 per cent of the country’s population, not least he minorities. Q […]
- Gutting Israel over its embassyNorwegian media continue to make a feast out of Israel’s difficulties in finding a suitable venue for its embassy, which both takes security concerns and costs into consideration. Maybe we shall remind the ironic commentators that there is a very good reason why Israel is particularly sensitive with regards to security; its embassy was blown to bits in Bueno […]
- ooopsy,that’s the Nobel price taken off our hands then…Some of you may remember an entry from December last year, at a time when Norway had suffered several set-backs reputation wise. A substantial part of that entry was dedicated to an oped by the great grandson of Alfred Nobel, who charged that the Norwegian Nobel committee does not fulfill its obligations under the Alfred Nobel Testament: He says that the Nor […]
- The Embarrassing Embassy story…As Kafka says, Norway isn’t very keen on being a good host – but then I suppose Norway is very happy with the arrangement for our own embassy in Tel Aviv, situated on top of a fancy shopping center in very upmarket part of town, where security is taken well care of by shopping center and local police. Maybe the Israelis are just that much better in providing […]
- Norwegian hospitality to Israel: Suffer bitch!Almost as certain as death and taxes, NRK will not let any opportunity pass by to portray Jews as victims or Israelis as whiners. NRK Østlandssendingen headlines a piece with “The Israeli embassy feels discriminated,” and goes on to cover the Israeli embassy’s alleged whining over not being able to find a suitable location for its embassy. NRK makes its best […]
- Aftenposten allows anti-Semitic commentsAftenposten today published an oped by Martin Bodd, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, responding to a proposal by Aftenposten’s editor for culture and debate Knut Olav Åmås to name a square after one of the Jewish children we sent off to an early and cruel death in Auschwitz in 1942. The talkbacks to this oped are horrific, demonstrating once more that it […]
- The product of a rotting mindDagsavisens forum for polite debate can from time to time look surprisingly like the inside of the head of a person with very unstable hormones, or perhaps neurons like over-ripe camembert cheese. Or, like a grotty catacomb where no air has circulated for centuries. It is probably a style thing; to be oddly out of touch – passé, where they want to be progres […]
- Frightened Norwegian shooters stay at homeI wonder if the powers that be in Norway have put similar travel warnings in place for anybody going to Sweden, specifically to Malmø? Norway Says Israel Dangerous, Won’t Allow Shooting Team to Visit Norway’s security authorities rule that Israel is dangerous, the country’s national shooting team cancels its trip to Israel next month. Elad Benari Norway’s se […]
- Al-Dura lies finally exposedLifted from Jerusalem Post French court acquits Israeli in al-Dura libel case Dr. Yehuda David had been convicted for refuting claimsthat a former patient of his was injured by IDF gunfire in iconic second Intifada incident. A French appeals court on Wednesday acquitted Israeli Dr. Yehuda David of libeling the father of Muhammad al- Dura, a symbol of the sec […]
- Fjordman hits backTERRORISM AND GENUFLEXION Verdens Gang 2012 02 17 p 27, Peder Nøstvold Jensen, a.k.a “Fjordman”. Not Online Author Øyvind Strømmen has been referred to by the media as an expert post 22/7; though it is rather vague what he is supposed to be an expert in. Strømmen took part in the Labor party’s seminar on extremism in January of 2012 in the company of Harald […]
Archive for October, 2010
Norwegian arms exports: NRK lets Mads Gilbert play Palestine-card
Norwegian armaments exports have surged the last years, mainly due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the article above, we see NRK let revolutionary socialist Mads Gilbert and retired Pål Hadler spin the debate in the direction of Israel, which has acquired some limited volumes of Norwegian rockets. In the article, Mr.Hadler...
Aftenposten is a dirty liar!
On Thursday October 28, Aftenposten served the following photo to unsuspecting readers: The text accompanying the picture goes…. ….Palestinian man restrained by Israeli Riot police in the PALESTINIAN town of Umm el Fahm in the North of Israel….. The picture and text is attributed to Reuters. However, checking the sources, we found that Reuters...
Borough boycott overruled: Socialist Left uses Nürnberg trials as argument for boycott
NRK reports that Oslo city council has overruled the Israel-boycott of the two Oslo-boroughs of Gamle Oslo and Grorud. Excerpt: This was against the votes of Rødt (Red) and SV (The Socialist Left), which wanted the entire borough to boycott Israeli produce. Read also: 300 new members after boarding The government party Socialist Left...
Ynet on editor Vebjørn Selbekk: An unexpected Norwegian friend
It is fashionable among Norwegian Israel-bashers to claim that they are “good friends” of the Jewish state and only savage it for noble, humanitarian reasons. Ynet has recently interviewed a real Norwegian friend of Israel, editor Vebjørn Selbekk, whom the Norwegian government left to twist in the wind after he incurred the wrath of...
Newsworthy: Palestinian olive trees allegedly ruined by Israeli sewage
When a prominent US Senator expressed concern over Norwegian anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred to Norway’s ambassador to Washington DC, it got one mention in one article in one newspaper. Contrast this with how a Palestinian allegation of Israeli sewage destroying thousands of their olive trees gets an entire article to itself in three newspapers. The...
Progress Party questions gove. on support of political propaganda in Syria
Norway’s MFA has endorsed and supported “Terra Sancta”, Norwegian artist Håkon Gullvåg’s anti-Israeli exhibit in Syria. In the letter above we see Progress Party member Ib Thomsen question the wisdom of fanning the flames of conflict by endorsing (Norway’s ambassador to Syria spoke at the opening of Terra Sancta) and financing (Norway’s embassy to...
Bishop is the new Prophet
The Rev. Harald Nordhaug, the bishop of Bjørgvin offers new exegetic insights and refers to Palestinian political priest Naim Ateek with whom he cosponsored an event in Bergen this week. According to the Reverend Bishop, the Bible (as in the New Testament) does not hold any particular promise to the Jews regarding the Land,...
Israel MFA on Norway media corps: preconceived, biased and erroneous
The surprising fact is not that the Israeli MFA should find the Norwegian media corps biased against Israel – it is. What is surprising is how they could have thought anything else, and for such a long time. But such is the power of wishful thinking. As recently as november 21st 2009, Israeli MFA...
American Thinker picks up on Brownback’s letter
From the American Thinker, a highly interesting piece by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Manfred Gerstenfeld: With the Jewish world focused on the looming nuclear threat from Iran, 60,000 Hezb’allah rockets menacing from southern Lebanon, and the dramatic shift of Turkey from an ally to an increasingly Islamist foe, one might think that Norway’s attitudes...
Supercessionist Palestinian theology develops market in Norway
Is there a market for supercessionist Palestinian theology in Norway? Perhaps not, but there are elements in the Norwegian church who are trying hard to create one. CAMERA has picked up on how Palestinian supercessionist Naim Ateek is being courted by Norwegian supporters. Unauthorized translation from the article “Runs theological intifada against Israel” from...
DN demolishes Gullvåg-defence, snipes at gove
Norway’s most prominent business newspaper DN today tackles Norwegian artist Håkon Gullvåg head-on, and also questions whether it is wise of the MFA to incite hatred between neighboring countries. Two pieces by artist Håkon Gullvåg have been removed from an exhibition, hosted by the French and Norwegian embassies at the Centre culturel francais in...
Norwegian embassy to Damascus endorses anti-Israeli art
Håkon Gullvåg’s exhibition in Damascus, Syria, appears to be endorsed by the Norwegian Embassy. Regarding the content of the two pieces which were removed from the exhibit, The Flag and Invasion, Adressa.no writes: Both have motives from the Gaza-war, and depict children’s corpses with military personnel and vehicles. From Adressa.no (Adresseavisen): We had an...
Document: ‘Gaza monologues – new propaganda gimmick at luxury hotel’
The good thing about a monologue is that you only get to hear one side of the story. Roy Vega writes about the “Gaza monologues” on Document.no: This years’ most one-sided political stunt, next after the Gaza convoys, is the “Gaza monologues”. Opening in Trondheim on Sunday evening. We thought Trondheim had had its...
Self-censoring newspaper bemoans ‘censorship’ of Israel-hatred in Syria
Adresseavisen found it reasonable to publish the cartoon above, but burned 90 000 copies of its own newspaper because it contained a cartoon which Muslims might find insulting. Now Adresseavisen cries “censorship” over how the French embassy to Syria has removed two pieces of anti-Israel art from an exhibition by Norwegian artist Håkon Gullvåg....
Norway, the world’s greatest friend of Israel and the Jews
7 facts that prove rumors that we are anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic wrong: Back in 1992, colonel Haukland, commander of f Norway’s UNIFIL troops to Lebanon proved Norway’s commitment to upholding the absolute neutrality of UN peacekeeping troops by helping PLO terrorists escape Israeli detention. Prohibition of ritual slaughter. Since 1929 Norway has had a...
Them and us
Scenario 1: Israel is attacked with rockets. After years of being tolerating war crimes against civil population for the sake of advancing peace and to not harm innocent civilians on enemy side, it finally decides enough is enough and hits enemy where it hurts, taking on the full risk of urban war fare, while...
Is Støre being pragmatic or immoral?
Norway FM Jonas Gahr Støre is attracting criticism for having purportedly warned the Nobel committee about the consequences of handing out the Nobel prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. This makes sense. China is very powerful. Yet to see such pragmatism in Mr.Støre stands in sharp contrast to how Norway’s constant criticism of Israel...
Norwegian artist cries foul after two anti-Israel pieces removed from exhibit
Subscribers to Aftenposten, Norway’s second largest newspaper, woke up today to find out that the front page of the paper was devoted to how the French cultural institute in Syria has removed two anti-Israeli pieces from an exhibition by Norwegian artist Håkon Gullvåg. This, Aftenposten tells us, is pretty much the most important thing...