Once more does Manfred Gerstenfeld show that he is better than the Norwegians in pin-pointing the particular problem Norway has with Israel and the Jews. Incredibly, Tromsø, that shitty little town up North in Norway, who for decades now has…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
No hope of apologies from the Norwegian BDS movement for anti-Semitic cartoons
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A hideously anti-Semitic cartoon in The Times has caused an international scandal and demands for an apology. Readers of Norwegian newspapers might be wondering what the big fuss was all about, since our national newspapers are replete with one more…
Minister eager to monitor anti-Semitism, Jewish community leader unimpressed
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A couple of stories to give you an impression of the schizophrenia that exists on this thorny issue in Norway today. apologies in advance for really bad google translate (lifted from Vårt Land and Miff.no) Faremo wants to monitor Jew hatred…
A good read to take your mind off cold and snow
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Ivar Fjeld has written a book on his experiences in the Labour Youth organization in Norway. I am sure he will cause many a upset when his book will be launched (today, January 29), however, many more will think it…
The stuff we wont talk about in Norway
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lifted from Israelnationalnews.com Op-Ed: Preaching Israel-Hatred at Norway’s Terror Island Published: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:40 PM Interview with Ivar Fjeld, Norwegian journalist who wrote a book on the Utoya Island massacre:”The Red youth movement invited youngsters from the Palestinian…
Norwegian media ponders Israeli election and Israeli ambassadors visit to Tromsø
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snippet of reactions to election outcome and the Israeli ambassadors visit to anti-Israel hotbed Tromsø Dagbladet, Editorial on the Israeli elections, in full: NETANYAHU IN A SQUEEZE Benjamin Netanyahu and his alliance for the elections consisting of Likud-Beitenu netted…
NRK caught in the middle of a real booboo
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The all-mighty NRK is suffering a major upset, not quite on the level of the BBC Savile scandal, but manipulating facts, presenting a convicted human trafficker as a victim of the Norwegian Courts of Law, omitting central aspects of the…
Not in Norwegian media – wanna-be terrorists graduate from Hamas school
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Lifted from Timesofisrael.com And they want to liberate the whole land… Excuse me, Mr. Foreign Minister, can you please take a moment to condemn this too? 3,000 Gaza teens graduate Hamas terror school Islamist PM hails first products of high…
The failed Israel boycott
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ahhh, it is really good to rub it in. Hey, ya PalComs, not only are you shite at recruiting new members, and not only is staying on the side of truth an unfamiliar concept to you, but now you have…
The Israeli election, seen from Norway
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It is always easy to be wise with the benefit of hindsight, but the Norwegian coverage of the Israeli election was unnecessarily bleak and pessimistic. After the results have been known, nowhere the same amount of energy has been invested…
Hanne Nabintu Herland dishes it out (now with the bits that was missing from the previous version)
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Here is a girl who can talk the talk AND walk the walk. No wonder the Norwegian powers that be (but not for long, election in September….) now make a point of inviting her to important meetings or come to…
New attempt to analyze Norwegian media and political elites attitude to Israel
by McGonagall • • 5 Comments
this should be an interesting event. Not too sure if it will lead to anything in particular, but on the other hand…. after the media conference the Jewish congregation arranged in Oslo in June 2011, followed up by several really…
Tromsø gets some feedback
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DISAPPOINTED OVER NEGATIVE REACTIONS Nordlys 2013 01 17 Sondre Flægstad Koren Summary. Ambassador Araidi comments upon certain reactions in Tromsø: “I am disappointed with the reactions which have come. If somebody holds the opinion I should not be allowed to…
Israeli embassy gets to stay
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THE EMBASSY OF ISRAEL TO REMAIN AT PARKVEIEN Fædrelandsvennen 2013 01 17 NTB The Embassy of Israel will remain at Parkveien, behind the Castle, for as long as the Embassy wants themselves. The municipality of Oslo has surrendered its demand…
PalCom on Facebook: all Israelis are Jews, and all Jews are responsible for Israel
by McGonagall • • 3 Comments
no comments necessary on this little gem lifted from the PalCom’s FB page, it wont exactly strengthen anyone’s belief in claims that the PalCom are the Jews best friends. In the same manner, they also show their disdain for Arabs…
Delusional Trond Ali Linstad claims Israel is no democracy – Freedom House report makes a mockery of his stupidity
by McGonagall • • 7 Comments
As the only only person in history who has suffered the agonizing embarrassment of being stripped of the King’s Medal of Merit, it might not be that strange that he is trying to smooth over this major setback by dreaming…
A real slip of the tongue
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This last week, we Norwegians have been more concerned with the fate of our countrymen who have been taken hostage in Algiers (desperately awaiting news about them, alas so far not forthcoming), than with whatever is going on in the…
Tromsø – the northernmost Judenrein city in the world
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Tromsø has never been a safe haven for Jews, which proved to be tragic for the Sakolsky family that lived there until 1943, when they were apprehended by Norwegian police and sent to Auschwitz where they were summarily murdered. Ruth…
Jail house rock! Palestinian terrorists throw a cozy party in Israeli high security jail
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I am sure inmates in high security prisons in the US and definitely here in Norway get tears in their eyes when they see the lavish comfort convicted Palestinian terrorists enjoy in Israeli high security prisons. In Norway, the common…
Hanne Nabintu Herland challenges mired mindsets in the MFA
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NAÏVE CHECK BOOK DIPLOMACY Aftenposten 2013 01 15 p 6 Hanne Nabintu Herland, Not Online Torgeir Larsen, Junior Minister (Labor) admits in Aftenposten to Norwegian authorities having closed their eyes to the realities of the Middle East. This must lead to…