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…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Ny Tid keeps company with Mohamed Omer
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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…
JP: Norwegians in UNIFIL causing negative view of J’lem
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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…
Aftenposten’s vacation recommendations
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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…
Ny Tid op-ed: …genocide on the Palestinians is a built-in feature of Zionism.
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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…
Enjoying the sun at Costa del Dictatorship
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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…
Noël: livre anti-israélien au top des ventes en Norvège
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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. …
VG recommendation for sun-starved readers: Syria, not Israel
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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…
Should we send the pension fund to Tel Aviv?
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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…
Anti-Semitism has entered the bloodstream
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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…
Is Israel making headway against cancer?
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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…
Kåre Willoch goes to campus
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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…
Boycott d’Israël : Elbit beats the boycott
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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…
Kåre Willoch – one of the three wise men?
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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…
Saudi Gazette: Abulhawa #1 in Norway!
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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…
Labor youth and Bjørn Tore Godal
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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.…
NRK strikes back against HonestReporting, declares event of the year
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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…
Vårt Land is runner up to dishonest reporting
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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…
Dishonest Reporter Award: Sidsel Wold
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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…
NRK: Rocket fired at Israeli kibbutz
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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…