Norway, Israel and the Jews
As you will recall, in his reply to Prof. Dershowitz FM Støre claimed he was not contacted by the Harvard Professor and therefore, presumably, was unaware that he was in town. This claim is now being challenged by the Christian daily Dagen, who state that FM Støre in fact did receive an invitation from...
Syria is in flames. The authoritarian regime of Assad has switched of both the internet and mobile networks in order to curtail the popular uprising against the regime. Civilians have been shot down in the streets, and more than a dozen different intelligence agencies compete to keep the population, as well as each other,...
The Norwegian media is quick to cover Israel whenever the news can be spun into a direction which makes Israel look bad. News items like the above however, our media does not tell us about. The Israeli medical team consists of a full 50 people which are offering a wide range of medical services....
Is the domestic debate on Israel so stupefyingly biased, it is dumbing us down? SKUP, a Norwegian trade conference for journalists, yesterday hosted a debate on how the Norwegian media covers Israel. Participants were IDF spokeswoman Avital Leibovich, NRK foreign affairs editor Knut Erik Holm, former Aftenposten correspondent John Hultgren, Dagens Næringsliv journalist Bjørn...
Andresen is that very unpleasant fellow we wrote about last week, when we translated verbatim with a copy of his own entry on an internal forum at NTNU Here is his reply to Dershowitz (also only in Norwegian in a paper nobody outside Norway gives a rats behind about): I am not an “antisemite”,...
It is not only our FM Støre who now must retroactively apply damage control after having badly miscalculated the effect of denying Dershowitz a chance to present his views on the Norwegian Middle East debate; now also the Rector of the University of Oslo sees the need to respond kindly to Dershowitz, but curiously,...
After having lashed out at Norway in international media, the Norwegian media then came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to let Dershowitz also speak here, hence his now famous article, which must have been read by millions, has now been translated to Norwegian and published in main stream media...