OK guys, stop looking, NRK journalists have found the perpetrator of the failed Oslo accords. According to the journalist David Krekling, it is Israel, or specifically, Bibi Netanyahu, who is to blame, and the smoking gun is to be found in a video recording from 2001. Rather than standing on his own feet, or...
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 November, 2010
Wolla, Walid wahid worthy writer-wallah
Walid Al-kubaisi is an Iraqi/Norwegian (?) residing in Oslo. Together with one Per Christian Magnus he has made a move about the Islamic brotherhood aptly named “Freedom, equality and the Muslim brotherhood”. Unauthorized translation from Aftenposten’s review: Walid al-Kubaisi introduces the movie by declaring his love to the freedom he found when he moved...
Triangulation: Lars Akerhaug interviews Erik Fosse and Waage
Aftenposten today presents the journalistic equivalent of triangulated fire, with the USA squarely in the sights. Aftenposten is Norway’s second largest newspaper. Its chief editor Hilde Haugsgjerd is a former maoist, formerly married to maoist chieftain and professor of journalism Sigurd Allern. The article in question, Norwegians may have been targeted by USA surveillence,...
Jan Egeland slams USA, Israel
The Norwegian left-of-centre feels ennobled by criticizing the USA and Israel for sins it lets go unheeded in other countries. Today, as it is revealed that President Aliyev of Azerbaijan finds Statoil to be “on the side of Iran”, Jan Egeland (Labor) is especially harsh with both democracies. In Aftenposten, NUPI director Jan Egeland...
Aserbajdsjan president: ‘Statoil is on Iran’s side’
The good thing about Statoil is that it makes money for us Norwegians. The bad thing about Statoil is that it is pulling the rest of Norway’s middle east policy behind it. State broadcaster NRK today reports (article: Statoil stands on Iran’s side) that according to a Wikileak document, Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev accuses Statoil...
‘Lebanon’ director on Norway: ‘…they just want to feel intelligent and left wing and artistic.”
Norwegian activists are considerably more passionate over Israel’s war on her own borders than they are over Norway’s war in central Asia. Director of “Lebanon” Samual Maoz had a taste of this while in Norway. In an interview in the Guardian, Maoz says: In Europe, the response has been more baffling. Prizes aside, anti-Israel...
Hallgrim Berg on left-wing fascism: ‘…the first stage of terror…’
One hundred red youths recently marched on two Israeli girls selling cosmetics in a shopping mall in Oslo. Such cowardice comes natural to these thugs. Hallgrim Berg, a respected Norwegian musician, politician and intellectual, identifies the red youths as left-wing fascists. In a letter to Hallingdølen, a local newspapers, Mr.Berg writes: “Staged events and...
Attack on blogger spread through world – by bloggers
On November 22nd a blogger was physically assaulted in his own home in Sweden. He was wrestled to the floor, hit in the head with a bottle, and called a “Jewish pig”. Newspapers are unconcerned – the victim was not one of theirs. Bloggers are spreading news of the incident to the best of...
‘… halfhearted in fighting the wholehearted…’
The observations of Harold Nicholsen, WWII era scholar, diplomat and writer, are still valid today. As the screenshot above (courtesy of MIFF) shows us, anti-Semitism is tragically not a thing of the past. In Norway, we see traditional xenophobia mixing with left-of-centre Israelphobia and Islamist hatred. The flame of anti-semitism remains alight, and we...
Mission of Arab states in Brussels watch Norwegian movie ‘Tears of Gaza’
Brussels, Belgium: Counsel of Ambassadors and Mission of Arab States League arrange viewing of “Tears of Gaza”, with producer Terje Kristiansen attending the event. Only this morning Aviad Ivri from the Israeli embassy to Oslo suggested, in an op-ed to Aftenposten, that normal relations between Norway and Israel would be better for both peoples....
Is Aftenposten moving towards normalization?
Is Aftenposten developing a less extreme perspective on the only democracy in the Middle East? Aftenposten’s chief editor is a former Maoist who for a long time let journalist Lars Akerhaug, a former leader of the Palestinakomite, write stories on Israel. In general, Norwegian newspapers often cast countries in the Middle East as being nice...
A minor matter: Pro-Israel blogger attacked in own home, called ‘Jewish pig’
Swedish Folkbladet, a local newspaper, gave us the bare bones of the story. You see it below. That’s it. That’s all there is as of now in the newspapers. Assaulted in apartment Norrköping Immediately before 18:30 police and ambulance were called to an incident of assault in an apartment in Trädgårdsgatan in Norrköping. Two...
Deliberate omission in the Norwegian media
Some events are considered newsworthy. Others not. Here is a sample of both categories. Some of the latest stories considered newsworthy are: Israel evaluates railway to settlement , an NTB report in Adresseavisen, on how Israel is evaluating laying railway to the settlement of Ariel on the West Bank. Also Was this all a...
Aftenposten op-ed: ‘Culture or boycott’
Aftenposten op-ed “Culture or boycott”, by Aviad Ivri of the Israeli embassy in Oslo, suggests that Norway and Israel are better served by improving dialogue than by boycott initiatives and demonization campaigns. Ought Norway cultivate normal relations with Israel? If so, how ought we to proceed? The Aftenposten op-ed “Culture or boycott” points out...
Labor youth leader: ‘We must fight so that Norway continues to side with the Palestinians’
On November 5th, Leader of AUF (Labor Youth) Eskil Pedersen told Dagsavisen that he believed Israel was conducting surveillance operations against him and his colleagues in AUF. Proof? None, this is Pedersen’s belief. In the clip above, taken in Tel Aviv, Pedersen promises to wage a relentless political campaign for the Palestinians for “as...
Aftenposten reports on ‘Taliban fighter from Norway’
According to Aftenposten (screenshot above) a Norwegian is to have fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan. Aftenposten’s source is a story in The Guardian. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
Støre 2010, Von Neurath 1933: ‘The Jews are smearing us!’
There are no similarities between contemporary Norway and Nazi-Germany. But human mechanisms and reaction patterns remain the same, regardless of time and space: When criticized over anti-Semitic events, both FM Von Neutrath and FM Støre claimed they were being “smeared”. In strikingly similar language. The first incident took place on March 26th 1933, when...
Founder of HRW criticizes HRW for moral failures in treatment of Israel
Norwegian journalists and intellectuals are quick to quote Human Rights Watch when it criticizes Israel. Let us see whether they quote anything from this lecture by Robert L. Bernstein, the founder of HRW, which you can read in the Jerusalem Post. Notice how Bernstein refers to a report on the Hamas administration’s Interior Minister...
Lâcheté à Oslo: une centaine de jeunes harcèlent deux jeunes israéliennes
Excellent Philosemitisme operates out of Belgium. Things have been tough there for some time now. Une centaine de jeunes adhérents de divers partis de gauche ont manifesté contre la vente de cosmétiques israéliens par deux jeunes israéliennes dans un centre commercial à Oslo. Ces jeunes boycotteurs assistaient à un séminaire contre la mondialisation co-financé par...
Ayalon: Boycott of Israel is boycott of peace process
Norway does not get a lot of international exposure. We do get some though, from the propaganda war our red-green coalition government insists upon waging on faraway little Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. From the JP: The Norwegians, led by the country’s national soccer coach, signed a petition demanding a cultural...