If Mads Gilbert had lobbied for Israel the way he lobbies for the Palestinians, would TV2 have given him as much attention as they do? Today TV2 covers him on both air and web. Gilbert criticizes the red-green coalition for not imposing sanctions on Israel and states: “... Gaza is a prison for children...
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 December, 2010
Ny Tid keeps company with Mohamed Omer
Ny Tid recently published an op-ed by Lasse Wilhelmsson, who associates with the well-known Mohamed Omer. For a translation of Wilhelmsson’s op-ed in Ny Tid, see below. This op-ed is very similar to Lasse Wilhelmsson’s speech at Al-Quds day in Stockholm, which you can read here. We have now found out that the other...
JP: Norwegians in UNIFIL causing negative view of J’lem
JP picks up on Wikileaks on Norway. Excerpt from article “Norwegians in UNFIL causing negative view of J’lem” Norway’s aspirations to be a “moral superpower” and play a key role in the Middle East peace process could be constrained by its tense relationship with Israel, anti-Semitism at home and its approach to Hamas, according...
Aftenposten’s vacation recommendations
VG recently advised its readers to go to Syria. Today Aftenposten recommends its readers to visit Egypt and Lebanonon. The fact that all of these countries rank quite abysmally on human-rights and democracy indexes is neither here nor there, it appears. Need some sun? Then Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are where you want to...
Ny Tid op-ed: …genocide on the Palestinians is a built-in feature of Zionism.
The magazine Ny Tid is as sharply critical with Israel as it has become uncritical of itself. The current edition of the magazine contains the most vicious op-ed this blog has seen to date. The op-ed is written by Lasse Wilhelmsson, a Swede who is as open about his views on Jews, Israel and...
Enjoying the sun at Costa del Dictatorship
While VG journalists want to send us to Syria for holiday (actually I would’ve loved to, but would be denied entry on grounds that I have been visiting that tiny 6 lettered country, their neighbor to the south-west), the Iranians are busy hanging all the people they don’t like. Exiled Iranians plead with the...
Noël: livre anti-israélien au top des ventes en Norvège
Philosemitism targets the French-speaking world from Belgium. Here is a translation of one of our articles. Thanks Philo! Susan Abulhawa, dont le roman se classe désormais n ° 2 dans le top 10 des best-sellers, semble bénéficier des achats de Noël. Qu’est-ce qu’un tel engouement nous nous apprend? Dans le livre d’Abulhawa “Matins de Jénine”, les...
VG recommendation for sun-starved readers: Syria, not Israel
VG’s recommendation is published on the heels of Aftenposten’s discovery: the cartoon-riots in Syria in 2006 were not a spontaneous act of public ill-will, but orchestrated by the authorities. Winters are fierce up north, and many Northerners will be looking to head south, and soon, for sand and sun and exotic foods. VG recommends...
Should we send the pension fund to Tel Aviv?
Steve Forbes’ program “Intelligent investing” offers a briefing on the Tel Aviv stock exchange and investing in Israel, by Ester Levanon. How come we do not hear about this in Norway? The program is divided into several chapters, each of which can be streamed separately (and immediately). This is rather a nice feature, not...
Anti-Semitism has entered the bloodstream
Document.no is more than a blog, yet it is not a political organization either. A lot of Norwegians are hoping Document will soon be available in print. Some articles are in English, here is an excerpt of one: The revelation that Wikileaks’ contactpersons in Sweden and Russia are the notorious antisemite Israel Shamir and...
Is Israel making headway against cancer?
Norway’s elites have cultivated something akin to a smear campaign against Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, for a long time now. Meanwhile, Israel has been making advances in the fight against cancer. Israel21c reports: An Israeli research scientist has accidentally discovered a chemical compound that eradicates cancer cells without harming normal...
Kåre Willoch goes to campus
Former US ambassador Benson K. Whitney has described former PM Kåre Willoch (Conservatives) as a “shrill, anti-Israeli voice”. This month Mr. Willoch’s shrieks at us from Campus magazine. While the former statesman speaks at length on diverse and sundry, he does home in on Israel and provides us with the following analysis (see original...
Boycott d’Israël : Elbit beats the boycott
Philosemitism operates out of Belgium, where things have been tough for quite some time. Somehow they still find the time to squeeze in something about Norway: Il y a un an, la ministre norvégienne des finances de l’époque, Kristin Halvorsen, annonçait très publiquement que la société israélienne Elbit ne serait plus soutenue par le fond de...
Kåre Willoch – one of the three wise men?
Who are the three wise men of contemporary Norway? Some suggest former premier Kåre Willoch (Conservatives) whom a former US ambassador to Norway described as a “shrill, anti-Israeli voice”. In the screenshot above we see an illustration from A-magasinet, Aftenposten’s weekend special. If you want to be popular in Norway, it seems is always...
Saudi Gazette: Abulhawa #1 in Norway!
The Saudi Gazette agrees with Norwegian literary reviews: Abulhawa is a truly gifted author! The Saudi Gazette writes: With translation into some 20 languages, Abulhawa’s novel is already enjoying success beyond the English-reading world. The author reported on her Twitter feed on 14 June: “Starting the week with awesome news! Mornings in Jenin is...
Labor youth and Bjørn Tore Godal
Bjørn Tore Godal (Labor) headed Labor Youth in 1971, when the organization suggested that the Jewish state of Israel would have to give way to a one-state solution for both Jews and Muslims. As foreign minister in the mid-nineties, Mr. Godal received credit for the moribund Oslo-accords, the archives of which were to disappear...
NRK strikes back against HonestReporting, declares event of the year
Only yesterday we could report that HonestReporting has listed NRK’s Sidsel Wold among those deserving the Dishonest Reporter Award. Today NRK strikes back. Journalist Hege Carlsen’s article sums up the main events of the year, the heading and main photograph is devoted to Israel. The heading goes “May: Israel attacks the emergency aid convoy”...
Vårt Land is runner up to dishonest reporting
Vårt Land, the Christian daily which takes a wait and see approach to Israel, seems to need a little home schooling when it comes to geography, political realities of the Galilean hills. In a short article they inform us that the mayor of Jesus’s hometown refused to put up a christmas tree on the...
Dishonest Reporter Award: Sidsel Wold
Dishonest Reporter Award 2010 lists NRK (State broadcasting authority) journalist Sidsel Wold among “other dishonorable mentions”, for “haranguing Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld during an interview, compelling the Israeli professor to fisk his own interview“. In more general terms, recognition for the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict is awarded coverage of the flotilla...
NRK: Rocket fired at Israeli kibbutz
State broadcasting authority NRK today reports on how an Israeli kibbutz has been hit by rocket-fire from Gaza. A man and a child were injured, although not seriously so. So it cannot be said that NRK reports only on Israeli attacks on Palestinians, and never Palestinian attacks on Israel. What this blog will claim,...