Sara is a Norwegian writer of Syrian origin. Her journey through life is one well worth reading about, and her ideas on freedom – on personal freedom and responsibilities – are of the kind that push boundaries: Lifted from Aftenposten…
Monthly Archives: March 2012
VG in the Middle East continues to shed light on grim reality for Israeli school kids
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lifted from VG. School kids learn to tackle rocket attacks By Erlend Skevik Photo: Harald Henden ASHDOD: Here, Israeli school kids rehearse how to seek protection from enemy rocket attack All Israel is now preparing a new war that may come in the next…
Aftenposten oped: Hate crimes against Jews must be taken seriously
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This (lifted from Aftenposten) merely serves to demonstrate the schizophrenic attitude to Jews in Norway: IN THE LAST MONTH, the Jewish community has experienced eleven cases of harassment, vandalism and threats. The number is not large enough for police to set…
A political science researcher first says it is OK to threaten to kill Jews but not to burn down the Synagogue, then retracts, claiming that he merely referred to a supreme court decision
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Its quite appropriate to incite terror (NTB excerpts from article in Vaart Land). The Norwegian political science researcher Kristian Skagen Ekeli thinks it’s outright reasonable that extreme expressions and incitement to terror take place in a democracy. Kristian Skagen Ekeli is…
MIFF: a father joined us when he discovered that funds generated through “operation A Day’s Worth” funds Palestinian terror
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lifted from miff.no Not worth a day’s worth Students at Lambertseter high school worked a days worth and generated funds for a Palestinian organization that wants to ‘liberate Palestine’. One father joined MIFF once he learned what lurks behind the…
Jewish congregation in Oslo demands that hate crimes against Jews are registered
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Lifted from Vårt Land In 2010, Sweden had registered 161 cases of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Germany had 1,268 cases. And Norway? Nobody knows. Norwegian authorities do not keep, in fact, statistics on anti-Semitic hate crimes. This provokes Ervin Kohn, head of the Jewish…
VG in the Middle East – now also writing about Israeli school kids who must study in shelters
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VG is to be praised for a series of articles they have published in recent days, covering Israel from a different perspective than the usual “aggressor” or “child murderer”. Today, they have published an article featuring the lives of Israeli…
Boycott the boycotters
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A Norwegian beauty shop chain, Vita, has decided to boycott Israeli products, claiming that they stem from an illegal settlement: Vita boycotts Ahava Vita does not want to trade in goods from the occupied territories in the West Bank, and therefore stops selling beauty products from Ahava. Ahava loses therefore its…
Støre: a case of megalomania
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I have mentioned previously, in passing, that our FM Støre is currently involved in a scandal where he, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have donated large sums of money to a project where one of Støre’s close friends is…
Gerstenfeld in ynetnews: Tale of 2 murderers
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Tale of 2 murderers Op-ed: Unlike Norway’s Breivik, Toulouse killer Merah represents far wider phenomenon Manfred Gerstenfeld For those who want to understand contemporary European reality somewhat better, comparing the murders committed by Mohammed Merah in Toulouse with the ones…
Pearls of wisdom from Norwegian clergy
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Anyone with a memory that goes back more than 2 weeks will remember how the Norwegian General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Olav Fykse, stepped right into the dog toffee with his claim that Jerusalem for Jews, is…
VG: Israel is preparing for ground war
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VG is currently providing a different kind of coverage of Israel. So far it seems they are doing some efforts to be factual, balanced and not myopically focusing on the Gaza or West Bank Negev (VG) Israeli special forces prepare on…
VG: Norwegian media coverage makes Israel scape goat
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This story was published in VG to day. I applaud this, a decent self-critical article. More of this, please! VG net) The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians gets more media attention than bloodier conflicts elsewhere in the world. The Organization…
Malmø, Sweden, a really bad neighbor
by McGonagall • • 21 Comments
Malmø… Previously a lovely town where most people regardless of ethnic and religious background would feel welcome. No longer. With disgusting mayor Ilmar Reepalu, from Estonia, a country with less than spotless history for their treatment of Jews, that image…
While Palestinian business executives warn about the stifling effect of massive aid on proper Palestinian economic development, Fayyad begs for more
by McGonagall • • 6 Comments
We should have known it, when FM Støre met with a Palestinian business executive who warned that the massive aid packages in fact stifle economic growth for Palestinians, and promised something would be done about it, Støre in fact meant…
Ouch! Giulio Meotti gives us a slap on the cheek: Norway is ‘bulwark of global anti-Semitism.’
by McGonagall • • 23 Comments
What goes around, comes around. It is not only the PA that is looking very bad after the Toulouse attacks. The Italian journalist and commentator Giulio Meotti sees Norwegian anti-Israelism as the modern anti-Semitism, a view that is supported in…
PA Fayyad: don’t use Pal cause for terror – PA Abbas: praises teenager who attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
Yesterday, PA PM Fayyad tried to do some damage control after the Toulouse murderer claimed he shot the Jewish kids and a rabbi to avenge the death of Palestinian children. Unfortunately for Mr. Fayyad, the cat is out of the…
VG: Israel ready for big war with iron dome
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Israel’s super shield ready for major war ASHDOD (AP) The last few weeks of fighting with Palestinian groups in Gaza have given the Israeli military with valuable experience in front of a war with Iran. – We have learned very…
Gerstenfelds interview with Hanne Nabintu Herland
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Op-Ed: Norway: The Most Anti-Semitic Country in the West Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:18 PM “The current Labor/radical left Norwegian government is promoting an extreme one-sided and negative stance toward Israel. It is responsible for creating a politically-correct hatred of Israel among…
1 in 3 Norwegians say that Israel’s actions gives them a poorer perception of Jews
by McGonagall • • 6 Comments
lifted from miff.no (but not widely reported in Norwegian press) Norwegians let, more than other Europeans, their attitude to Jews be affected by actions undertaken by Israel. No one explains more violence against Jews in their own country with anti-Israeli attitudes.…