Norway, Israel and the Jews
The Norwegian public is encouraged to worry about settlement patterns related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The fact that statistics indicate that ethnic Norwegians are fleeing Oslo, the public is encouraged to ignore. The disparity is quite striking. On the one hand, the man in the street is expected to be furious with Jews who...
These last weeks have seen quite a lot of attention given to the issue of anti-Semitism in Norwegian schools. But who is to teach the new generation how to think independently, to inoculate them against conspiracy theories? Parents obviously have to shoulder part of the burden, but it is difficult to pass a motion...
Labour party MPs who have spent the last months bragging in public how they will observe and receive the Gaza flotilla from Gaza itself, are now crying bitterly that Israeli authorities might not give them a visa to enter the strip from Israel. The three stooges Anette Trettebergstuen, Truls Wicholm andMarianne Martinsen arrived in...
In an op-ed on anti-Semitism, the author claims that the state of Israel was created in consequence of the Holocaust. The op-ed does have a lot of fine features, as it for instance points out that anti-Semitism in by no means a “muslim” problem. In this, Mr.Ali is entirely correct. But he is completely...
A Dagsavisen NTB article (above) titled “Israel threatens journalists” deals with how Israel has warned journalists against partaking in the blockade-busting experiment. NRK runs the similar article “Israel threatens media which wants to cover Gaza-convoy“. Norwegian participants on one of the ships headed for Hamas-controlled Gaza believes it has been sabotaged, perhaps by sub-sea...
An Aftenposten editorial today calls for the release of Gilad Shalit. The editorial is unsigned and titled “Free Shalit“. It is critical of Hamas and sympathetic to Gilad Shalit. The editorial points out that Norway is one of the few western countries to have “a certain contact” with Hamas, and that these contacts should...
The screenshot above is from the VG article “This is how foreign ambassadors pressure Norwegian asylum-seekers” by journalist Lars Akerhaug, a former pro-Palestinian activist. The article is on how foreign delegations to Norway negotiate on behalf of their countrymen in order that they should be granted asylum, and the letter from the Palestinian General...
The weekly summaries are supplied by Normakor. Norwegian media memes on Israel, Jews, and the Middle East Week of June 19, 2011 As summer sets in, the volume of media items related to Israel, Jews, and the Middle East dwindles. Barring a major development, things will not pick up until August. I will still...
Finally a Norwegian newspaper that picks up the unspeakable evil perpetrated against African refugees as they try to cross from Egypt to Israel. Vårt Land appears to have noticed the horrors that go on against these vulnerable people: Migrants murdered on border to Israel Egyptian police shot and murdered 4 Africans who tried to...
Norway routinely – and rightly! – scores high on surveys regarding living standards, transparency, standards of governance, and so on. But judging by an article in Vårt Land, we are approaching a greying area, where figures of power start to share beds, lives, families. This very interesting article outlines the apparent degradation of the...
It seems like a poor joke, but it has taken the Amnesty International all of 5 years to address this ongoing crime against humanity in any serious way. Today, making the 5th anniversary since his capture, the General Secretary of AI in Israel, Rachel Benziman said: “We hope that Gilad soon returns to his...
Is it ok to break the law if you feel it is righteous to do so? Zeit Online dips into a debate which was ancient when Jesus was young. Zeit Online has a highly recommendable interview, by Jade-Yasmin Tänzler with international and maritime law expert Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, on the lacking legality of...
Few Norwegians get upset over the actions of Middle Eastern countries. Except for Israel. About Israel, they are always upset. The ship to Gaza is about to set sail. Ship to Gaza Norway lists the Norwegian participants. Note that there are discrepancies with other news reports, both over the numbers and names over the participants. According...
Our red-green coalition government believes it is important and righteous to hold Israel to a higher standard than her neighbors. The opposition has a different take on things. From Norge IDAG, by journalist Tor Bjørn Nordgaard, “New policy on Gaza with a new government“: Representatives of the CPP, the Conservatives and the Progressives issue...
Manfred Gerstenfeld’s recent op-ed in Ynet demonstrates that he knows far more about anti-Semitism in Norway than most Norwegians. Even Gerstenfeld’s critics must be asking themselves whether it really was necessary for parts of the Norwegian establishment to go to war against him the way they did. He is, after all, just a scholar...
Norway is a perfectly normal democracy in which the opposition gets to post critical questions to government. Sometimes, the media even picks up on them. Norway FM Jonas Gahr Støre has now replied to a question from member of the Storting Torkil Åmland (Progressives). In brief, it’s “no”. A REPLY TO A QUESTION CONCERNING...
Question from Torkil Åmland of the Progressive Party to foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre: Will the foreign minister retract his previous condemnation of Israel’s reaction to the border violation on June 5th this year, and instead condemn the Syrian government’s organization of the event? Støre’s short response is “No.” Here is the unauthorized translation...
Actually, they didn’t, but the story still made the Norwegian press. The story originated in Israeli Maariv. While the story was later corrected, it still became a top news item on the BBC. JC.com reports on the story under the telling title “No dog stoned to death in Jerusalam court“. A statement from the...
Dagsavisen, a Soria Moria mouthpiece, has published an op-ed by a Norwegian convert to Islam who asks Norwegian Jews to “aid” her in combating anti-Semitism. It simply does not get any better than this. The author of the op-ed below, Linda Alzaghari, is a Norwegian convert to Islam. She is apparently the leader of Minotenk-...
Aviad Ivri of the Israeli embassy has done his utmost to improve Norway-Israeli relations. The Norwegian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce has now honored him for his efforts. The Norwegian-Israeli Chamber of Commerce reports: AVIAD IVRI RECEIVED HONOR AWARD BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The NICH has recently decided to award an annual prize to the...