Norway, Israel and the Jews
It appears that everywhere you go there will be someone willing to impose a set of double standards and lambast Israel while far worse events occur elsewhere. Now the Norwegian city of Lillehammer is hosting Israel-apartheid-week too. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
The Universitas article on a Jewish students trials and tribulations gives more food for thought. Reading the commentaries gives rise to very uncomfortable feelings, in particular this entry is extremely chilling: Israels antisemittisme mot palestinerne2011-02-11 11:39:21: There is no antisemitism in Norway. Antisemitism is a swear-word invented by the extreme rightist zionists (zionism is...
Thanks to wackyleaks we now know that news that professors at NTNU who proposed an academic and cultural boycott of Israel presented as a combo pack with highly biased “seminars” on Israel, caused considerable Transatlantic upset and that Washington politicians got seasick with this unexpected maneuver. NTNU chancellor Digernes whines that We were subjected to...
Gudmund Hernes is a researcher at FAFO and a professor at BI, a Norwegian business school. He is furthermore a Labor party icon. In Morgenbladet July 30th Gudmund Hernes writes a scathing review of a commentary by Aftenposten’s Jan E.Hansen. One of the reasons is that Jan E. Hansen has called Israel “the only...
Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East, which for all practical purposes means Israel. In the article “Taboo Jew-conflict rises to surface” (Tabaulagt jødekonflikt til overflaten) Wold writes: Like apartheid - This is very sad. It reminds me of apartheid, says Arik, a young Azkenazi male who disagrees with the battle the...
Dagbladet reports that Professor Ole A. Moen at the University of Oslo subscribes to Apartheid rhetoric in describing Israel. Unauthorized translation: Moen does not believe one can expect that Obama will intervene in the conflict between Israel and Palestine and apply pressure to make Israel leave Gaza. - I do not believe he has...
Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo in 1952 and became famous when his book Sophies World, a philosophy-made-easy volume for children, became a bestseller in the mid nineties. In August 2006 Mr. Gaarder wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten, one of Norway’s leading dailies. Here Mr. Gaarder critisized Israel for the war against Hezbollah in...
In the Aftenposten op-ed above, of April 18th 1975, right-wing nationalist Erik Blücher presents many of the same arguments we hear from the left-wing today. Among other, he argues that while the Jewish people is a race, but not “race” in the sense that the word is usually used, as the Jews are a...