Back in January 2010, our FM Støre and other big wigs who claimed there was no anti-Semitism to talk about in Norway, reacted furiously to Israeli reactions over plans to pay homage to Hamsun precisely in a year when Norway chaired the ITF of Holocuast Remembrance.

Now, Sara Azmeh Rasmussen takes the cultural elites to task for their failure to understand the wider implications of officially white washing Hamsun

A NOBEL AWARD WINNER WHO SHOULD NOT BE CELEBRATED

Vårt Land 2012 06 06 p 24

Sara Azmeh Rasmussen

Summary.

A long op-ed on the author’s refusal to take part in celebrations over Knut Hamsun. She bases this on the author’s Nazi sympathies.

Quote:

“A thorough confrontation is needed, not only because of the country’s Jewish minority, but also other minorities subject to racism today. In the light of the depressing findings to be read in the recent report by the Holocaust Center over prejudices towards both new and old minorities, any further public conversation on Hamsun should be conducted with some sensitivity”.