We all know that Dr. Gerstenfeld is a very sharp observer of Norwegian politics and attitudes towards Israel and the Jews. So far, since our strange little snowed in country with such dark spots on our national character caught his…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Not in Norwegian News: Israeli school kids targeted on their first school day
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I bet you this would have been given proper coverage if it has been the other way around. In stead, some Norwegian outlets (Aftenposten mainly, never missing an opportunity to make Jewish spiritual leaders look bad, and in this instance forgetting…
The Fawlty Tower hotel saga
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
OK, summer is over and focus back on Israel, this time for having had the audacity to expropriate a hotel which was situated exactly in the middle of security trail between Jerusalem and the West Bank. The hotel was expropriated…
Senior Pal-activists angry with press because they are not being sufficiently harsh with Israel
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
While major media outlets have either a) focused on the dramatic events spelling out in Syria, threatening to drag the whole of the Middle East into the fray, or b) been obsessed with the poor Norwegian olympic results, or c)…
with focus off Israel, Norwegian papers also cover other stories
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Apart from some base attempts to smear Israel on various NRK channels (will translate when I have the time), Norwegian news media seem to have discovered a new world now that the infatuation with Israel, at least for the moment,…
Union starts to feel the heat, tries to issue a sort of apology… sort of
by McGonagall • • 9 Comments
OK, not quite a cigar, but perhaps finally the various union affiliated knee jerk anti-Israelis start to realize they are smelling like Monday’s morning fish… HOSTILITY TOWARDS JEWS LO Aktuelt, issue no 12 of 2012 Editorial, signed Yngve Madsen “Also,…
Ny Tid cant make up their mind, are Gazans suffering or better off?
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This is puzzling to say the least… luckily we can count on the BBC to put us right… 0721 One of Egypt’s responses to the attack by militants in the Sinai peninsula has been a threat to shut down the huge…
Not much on Israel in Norwegian media
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
It has been a most unusual summer, with chains of events that have lifted the myopic focus official Norway has on Israel to also take in the nasty neighborhood Israel is situated in. What with self critical oped’s lamenting the…
A difficult day for Prime Minister Stoltenberg – the 22/7 commission lands the blame for failure to implement security measures on his door step
by McGonagall • • 10 Comments
Yesterday must have been a surreal day for the Labor Party, waking up to a commission report that places the political responsibility for the security failings that were so tragically exposed after the 22/7 terror bombing and shooting in Oslo…
Loony leftist racists carry on with lie and smear campaign, hate speech fest under way
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
While even Dagbladet has sussed out that the continuous stream of filthy garbage lies against Israel stands out like a giant tree trunk jammed into the sanctimonious eyeballs of the entire Norwegian anti-Israel crowd, compared to their shameful silence and…
Dagbladet is praised in Jpost for its critical oped on Norwegian double standards in Syria
by McGonagall • • 3 Comments
This must be an unusual diet for Dr. Gilbert who could not be bothered to pick up his phone to answer questions from journalists, and for all the other bogus humanitarians who in reality just are regular bigots who stole…
Knock me over with a feather – Dagbladet is actually doing some soul searching
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Sin of omission in Syria Dagbladet, Sunday 12.08.2012, Editorial Last week a Finnish ship was in Oslo in order to raise support to the now annual campaign «Ship to Gaza» in the attempt of revoking the Israeli blockade…
Socialistic Left Party – with no voters left, turn once more to Israel bashing to try to capture perhaps 1 voter
by McGonagall • • 11 Comments
What a sad party this is – the Socialistic Left party polls have gone from bad to terrible to awful, and now practically decimated and with very little possibility of having even one MP after the 2013 general elections, they…
Bye bye Galtung
by McGonagall • • 19 Comments
Where no Norwegian institution would set its foot down, finally, the Swiss (the Swiss?!) did, and fired Galtung from a prestigious “peace academy!: Lifted from Jpost (and look who they are interviewing for this….): Swiss group suspends ‘anti-Semitic’ Norway scholar By BENJAMIN…
Double ouch! Clobbered again, this time by Elliott Abrams
by McGonagall • • 3 Comments
Elliott Abrams is not just anybody letting out hot steam, as he has served in foreign policy positions under two US presidents. Now he has set his eyes on Norway/Scandinavia, and we come out pretty badly mauled (I just wonder…
Whack! Gerstenfeld slams Norwegian Anti-Semitism study in Jpost.
by McGonagall • • 10 Comments
I am of the opinion that it is very good that we now have our very own Norwegian study on prevalence of anti-semitic attitudes in Norway. Having one – and one must presume has been carried out with adequate academic…
Are Norwegian international companies goody-two-shoes, or simply pigs gone wild with snout in trough?
by McGonagall • • 3 Comments
Year after year, Norway comes out of the annual Transparency International on a decent number 10 or 11. This is a very good position, considering that we are a major oil producer and, ehem, it is not always that the…
Norwegian obsession for prepuce earns us an international raised eyebrow
by McGonagall • • 7 Comments
lifted from Jpost.com See how fast bad news travel, it is less than one week ago since Israelwhat wrote about this… Norway recommends ‘symbolic’ circumcision By JTA08/06/2012 14:37 Ombudsman for children’s rights proposes that Jews and Muslims replace male circumcision…
Not in Norwegian News: Israel comes to the aid of faltering PA economy
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The PA has wasted most of its money on cronyism, nepotism and good old fashioned corruption and are bankrupt. Donor countries have not dished out their dough, and as a result the PA were told in no uncertain terms, that…
FM Støre, Norwegian journalists discover Syria
by McGonagall • • 6 Comments
Finally, after many years of ignoring the repression and violence which are the real causes of the Middle East tragedies (in plural, on purpose), leading politicians and journalists get their pens out to discover what has been known for a…