Norway, Israel and the Jews
An article in Vårt Land reports on how an academic study reveals that state broadcasting authority NRK sided with the red-greens during the election. Vårt Land article (screenshot above) “NRK sided with the red-greens” states: Journalists were biased during the TV sessions for the parliamentary elections in 2005. This may have been decisive for...
Aftenposten reports that a Wikileaks document suggests that deputy minister Barth Eide is motivated by personal ambition rather than national interest. Excerpt from Aftenposten’s article: This is made evident in the first documents from Wikileaks on Norwegian politicians. The documents were displayed by Swedish Aftonbladet.se today, and may be downloaded here. In a brief...
NTB has released an article on how Israel, according to Haaretz, is aiming to affect public opinion by developing supporter-teams in European countries. NTB (here in VG) refers to Berglingske Tidende, which again refers to Haaretz. Excerpt from the NTB article: It is the controversial foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman who stands behind the initiative,...
Or so we are told by organizations(Amnesty International, Christian Aid, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam International and Save the Children UK) who claim that Israel is not living up to Gaza promises. Here are two excerpts from the article in JP: here from the organizations who accuse Israel of wrong doing: “it has so far...
In March, general secretary of the Red Cross Bernt G. Apeland called for Norwegian Jews to be investigated for war-crimes. The recently released Wikileaks documents suggest Apeland should instead call for the investigation of his colleagues in the Red Crescent. The Guardian has a lot of material on how Iran has exploited the Red Crescent....
In 1993 an unknown gunman shot editor William Nygaard outside his own home for having published Salman Rushdie’s “Satanic verses”. It now appears that the assassination was poorly investigated. Several voices are suggesting that the authorities chose not to to look too closely at the affair, for fear of upsetting either foreign policy in...
While Norwegian Statoil is busy disentangling from Iran, Germany is enjoying excellent relations with Israel. The Norwegian establishment casts Israel as the villain of the world. Norway’s own engagement in the Middle East, which spans from Statoil’s engagement in Iran to Blitz’ “solidarity brigades” to the West Bank, is characterized as “humanitarian”. Meanwhile Germany...
VG reports today on Wikileaks documents, suggesting that Norway’s PM Jens Stoltenberg contributes less than enough to national security. In fact, the Wikileaks document suggests that there is a risk that Norway will sever the traditional trans-Atlantic ties, thereby weakening NATO’s northern flank. Perhaps our leaders aim to develop an alliance with Syria instead....
Bernard Henri Levy is a leading French intellectual who is well known across the world. He now criticizes Norway in his regular column in Le Point, mentioning among other Vibeke Løkkeberg’s documentary on Gaza and the forced relocation of the Israeli embassy. Extract provided below. Google translate will give you the bare bones of...
Aftenposten’s weekly A-magasin extra offers a five-page article about the nazi prison camps of WWII, without mentioning the Norwegian Jews with as much as a word. Is this appropriate? The article, by journalist Lars Kluge, is published in the Aftenposten special A-magasinet #47, November 26th 2010, and runs from page 48 to 52. The...
In 2002 Jens Stoltenberg (Labor) spoke at an anti-Israel demonstration at which there calls of “kill the Jews” and anti-semitic placards. Today he launches a package of 30 measures targeting extremism, stating that Norway is becoming increasingly similar to countries where terror has occurred. The 2002 demonstration is mentioned in Jahn Otto Johansen’s book...
An NRK article based on newly released Wikileaks documents presents old news. The NRK article in question is “Why the Oslo accords were a failure” by NRK’s own David Vojislaw Krekling. Krekling’s article is fifteen paragraphs long. How much of it is news and how much of it is relevant to the pretext of...