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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 July, 2011
This unbearable pain – and the work we all have a duty to do
We are so terribly pained, we Norwegians. We cannot bring ourselves to believe this horror that took place. It was unimaginable. And it shook us out of the innocent belief that this could not take place here. What kind of beast could place a bomb in the heart of Oslo at a time when...
Un dolor insoportable… y el trabajo que todos debemos hacer
Estamos muy doloridos, nosotros los Noruegos. No lo podemos creer, el horror que paso. Fue algo inimaginable. Y nos saco de la inocencia de que aca no pasa nada. Que tipo de bestia puede poner una bomba en pleno centro de Oslo, en la hora cuando la gente sale de sus trabajos, para volver...
What now?
I started this blog after the riots in January 2009. I saw ignorance and hatred and thought I would do what little I could. Have I accomplished anything? Not much. Once I spotted an anti-Semitic Facebook page, calling for attacks on Jews. As a result of a post on it, and subsequent reactions from...
Show support – hold hands!
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Horror beyond comprehension
Norway is starting to wake up to the horror which struck us yesterday. Ninety-two people have been killed. By a white Norwegian male not formerly associated with any extremist groups. This is the most severe incident to have taken place on Norwegian soil since world war II. Some say this is even worse than...
White Christian Terror
The terrorist behind yesterday’s horrific acts was a white christian Norwegian. So far it looks like the terrorist acted alone. Are there more people like him out there? What has happened is horrible beyond compare. There are no words for a situation like this. Norway is in shock. There are no words. This is...
Terror blast in Oslo, massacre at political youth camp
Norway has been struck by two almost simultaneous acts of terrorism. First, an explosion rocked the city centre as the central government offices were hit at 15:30. This is right in the city centre. Security measures around the government offices have been criticized repeatedly in the last years, but then security measures always are....
Musings on remorseful politicians, newspaper scandals and silly laws
Summer is such a great time to read newspapers and reflect on the wider picture of things. A lot of brouhaha has been kicked up by one particular piece of legislation, and as always it is only Israel who is capable of passing laws that represent a danger to freedom of expression. I giggle...
Foreign policy by suicide: Is Oslo burying the Oslo agreements?
The Oslo Agreements specify that the PA is not to conduct foreign relations on its own. Now Norway FM Jonas Gahr Støre is undermining this article. In the FM’s statement in his article “Palestinian ambassador to Norway“, Støre states that the Palestinian Mission will “represent both the PLO and the PA”. Yet according to...
The villainous politics of Skarphedin of Iceland
The Skarphedin of the epic “Njål’s saga” is a war-mongering psychopath who takes advice from murderers, makes enemies unnecessarily, and carries out the foulest of deeds in the belief that his motives justify his means. His contemporary namesake is Ossur Skarphedin’s son, Iceland’s minister of foreign affairs. The social-democrats of Iceland, like the social-democrats...
Bruce Bawer sees grim picture of Oslo’s future
Bruce Bawer is an American citizen residing in Oslo. He sees, and not without reason, trouble looming ahead. Read the entire piece on Ruthfully Yours. Notice how the author calls the police for assistance only to hear that they won’t be able to respond to his call for days. Mr. Bawer is not the...
Dagbladet: ‘Jews pick up crusader-sword and point it eastwards’
Today Dagbladet offers an interview with Norwegian historian Nils Rune Langeland, who believes the USA and “the Jews”, being filled with “demonic restlessness”, are the new crusaders. The Dagbladet interview is titled both “Jews take up crusader-sword and point it eastwards” (front page) and “Tracking the war-like Europe“. Journalist Inger Merete Hobbelstad interviews Norwegian...
Coming: Norwegian translation of Gerstenfeld’s ‘The abuse of Holocaust memory’
Holocuast denial, what is there to know? A Holocaust denier is one who denies that the Holocaust occurred, nes pa? Not quite. One can accept the fact that the Holocaust occurred, and still fashion it into a weapon against the Jews. Impossible? Oh no, people do it all the time. Manfred Gerstenfeld’s book on...
Holiday season
The various writers of NIJ are on summer holiday and will check in from time to time. Comments to published articles are moderated by the author of the article in question, so apologies in advance if your comments are not approved with the usual speed. Our moderation rules are to delete comments that mainly...
Ok to boycott produce of Muslims living in eastern Oslo?
Israel gets more front pages than any other Middle Eastern country. Certainly the Arab spring has changed the ratio somewhat, but Israel is still far ahead. Today’s front page is titled “Will be punished for boycott” and deals with how Israel has made it illegal to boycott the produce of Jews residing on the...
Eva Stabell at NRK is a filthy liar!
NRK cannot help itself, even when there is very little newsworthy about Israel, they continue to obsess about her, presumably doing their best to provide a “balanced” picture of the ME conflict. So much that in a piece about 120 Gaza floptilla participants who entered Israel on the explicit pretext of disturbing the peace,...
Adios a un grande, farewell to Facundo Cabral
A great troubadour, perhaps the last of his kind, was brutally shot and murdered in Guatemala City this morning. Facundo Cabral, a stellar performer in all of the Americas, but also in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries and in Africa, was declared a world messenger of peace by UNESCO in 1996. Hit hard...
Welcoming South-Sudan into the family of Nations
Today is a day of joy for the people of South Sudan. After one of the most protracted and bloody civil wars on the African continent, with more than 2 million war casualties and over 4 million displaced people, the formal declaration of independence took place yesterday, following the over-whelming referendum where 99% of...
Its official, the Norwegian activists give up and come home
We already wrote about the Gaza flotilla flop last week, and how the “activists” reluctantly admitted that they could not carry on sitting on the quays of Greece to wait for further clarification. Well, now it is official, the Norwegians are coming home, but not without making further idiots of themselves. The Socialistic Left...