NTL is a union belonging to LO (TUC). In its redesigned member magazine, aptly named NTL magasinet, it offers a review of Susan Abulhawa’s bestselling “Morning in Jenin”. This is a novel in which Israelis are cast as hollow-eyed and barren thieves with no historical connection to the land, while Palestinians are cast as...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- Happy 17th of MayOnce more, we gather under our flag to celebrate our freedom. Each 17th of May, the Jewish community in Oslo organize a formal and serene commemoration of Henrik Wergeland, the son of one of the member of the Constituent Assembly for our Constitution. In its original version, our Constitution was shamed by the exclusion of Jews and Jesuits in Norway, som […]
- “Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too badThe synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the speeches Støre and Stoltenberg with no end to the flowery assurances, this is what it comes down to: Jews should be content feeling prett […]
- The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2lifted from Vårt Land Synagogues receive NOK 7.2 million for security The money goes towards securing doors, upgrade the monitoring system and setting up a security fence. The Government proposes in the revised national budget to allocate 7.2 million forsecurity at the Jewish Religious Community (DMT). - No one should have to be afraid to exercise their rel […]
- Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boyAftenposten today published an op-ed from “Daniel,” a 17-year old Norwegian student who happens to be Jewish. He feels surrounded by antisemitic attitudes, ranging from comments by a fellow video game player (“just pretend they’re Jews when you aim at them”), to the inevitable “so you support killing babies?” when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inabi […]
- PalCom action ‘small and unsuccessful’lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee’s action was “small and unsuccessful” Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel’s Dead Sea products in Oslo last Tuesday (May 16) evening. The police were notified in advance and got them quickly away from the place. By Conrad Myrland Published: 16/05/201 […]
- VG’s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on IsraelAstrid Meland published an OpEd in VG on May 14, which currently is not online. MIFF has published a review article online, from where I have lifted the following: Astrid Meland believes Israel’s critics in Norway are victim of a collective neurosis, where you turn a blind eye to much worse breaches of human rights by other states. - Unethical focus on Isra […]
- Stand up, stand up – for the Hebrew MamitaIf I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say – WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none"; […]
- Oopsie – Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitismlifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free – regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the ‘mad professor’ let it rip, as is evident by the details of this op-ed. Why did not the Norwegian intelligentia react at an earlier stage? Did they perhaps agree with the previous […]
- Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the policeLifted from miff.no What can I say? Bravo! MIFF is doing an incredibly important job and luckily their hard efforts are rewarded with a healthy growth in their memberships. Maybe readers of this blog could be entreated to find a way of supporting MIFF? By the way, I have no relation to MIFF, personally or professionally – this is just a courtesy call to reco […]
- What Karsten Tveit’s award really signifiesOdd Karsten Tveit wins the Gullruten lifetime award for his propaganda news coverage from the Middle East. When it comes to correspondents in the Middle East sent by NRK (the governmental broadcasting organization financed by a surcharge on owning a television), it’s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest: you can endlessly discuss who is worse. Bu […]
Dominating Public Discourse
Masochism and anti-Israelism
Left-wing politician Aslak Sira Myhre (Rød Valgallianse, Rødt) is the manager of the House of Literature in Oslo. Both he and his wife, an editor and former karate champion, have repeatedly spoken out in favor of a boycott of israel. In an interview in Dagsavisen (above) Mr.Myre explains how he still can wear a...
Susan Abulhawa visits Libris bookstore in central Oslo
Susan Abulhawa’s “Mornings in Jenin” casts Israelis as empty-eyed thieves with no historical connection to their land, which they have stolen from the Palestinians. The novel offers a barren Jewish woman and a stolen Palestinian child, Jews who are unable to operate an olive press or work the land, and terrified Palestinian children who...
Susan Abulhawa speaks at Norway book fair
Susan Abulhawa is the author of “Mornings in Jenin”, a novel which has been translated into Norwegian and currently runs in its fourth edition. It’s a runaway bestseller. In her novel, Abulhawa manages the following: a) to present Jews as empty eyed, violent, barren thieves who have no historical connection to the land of...
Film director Løkkeberg believes Gaza is ‘shut out of the news”
Film director Vibeke Løkkeberg’s film “Tears of Gaza” will be released in Norway on November 5th. In Dagbladet today Løkkeberg states: - This film is meant to be a sort of “wake-up call” for the West. It is a film much larger than myself, and it is my opportunity to let these childrens’ voices...
“journalism” by omission
There is a new writer covering the ME conflict at NRK, Laila Ø Bakken. On the surface, she appears to be accurate enough, even balanced. But that is only if you are prepared to take her news as truth. In fact, on closer read, she manages to contradict herself, and some of her “facts”...
Norwegian union applauds mock executions on fotball field
Now imagine if Israeli footballers did what the Palestinian youths are doing on the picture above: enacted mock executions during a game. The article above is from the LO (TUC) magazine “Ledelse og Teknik”, which is led by a veteran AKP-ml (maoist party) member. Did anyone say Sorelian myth? linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor =...
Film director presents Palestinian narrative on state broadcasting authority NRK
Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian film director who has recently made a film on Gaza, which she never has visited. Mads Gilbert has been her consultant for the film. Today Løkkeberg disseminted the Palestinian narrative on NRK radio. During the interview Løkkeberg regurgitated the main propagandistic bullet points on the 2008/2009 Gaza war, insisting...
FAFO: ‘Apply pressure to Israel’
On July 30th a prominent researcher at Fafo, a left-wing thing tank, stated that Gaza was a “concentration camp”. On June 3rd two other Fafo researchers stated that Israel’s enforcement of the blockade of Hamas-run Gaza was virtually a “declaration of war” on a NATO country. Now another Fafo researcher writes an op-ed in...
Al-Quds Day in Oslo, Norway:’We must all rise up and destroy Israel’
On Al-Quds day in Oslo, pro-Palestinian activist and convert to Islam Trond Ali Linstad quoted Iranian cleric Ayatollah Khomeini by saying: “We must all rise up and destroy Israel”. Linstad also tried to have the same quote published in an advertisement in Dagsavisen, whose chief editor is a self-professed pro-Palestinian, but the ad was...
NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
Journalist Laila Ø. Bakken of the Norwegian State Broadcasting Authority NRK manages to report on how Abbas’ family fled during the “Naqba”, while completely omitting any mention of the 1948 war which caused the “Naqba”. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon declared war on Israel the day after it proclamation itself as a state....
NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations
When Charles W. Freeman had to resign from a position with the Obama administration in March 2009, he blamed the Israel-Lobby. On Wednesday he visited NUPI in order to speak about US-Israel relations. Vårt Land reports, in an NTB article, that Freeman has as little faith in the current round of peace negotiations as...
Opposition questions objectivity of ‘Tears of Gaza’ movie
Movie director Vibekke Løkkeberg has, with the aid of Mads Gilbert, made the movie “Tears of Gaza” . Many suspect that “Tears of Gaza” has been put together in such a way as to make the blood of its audience boil, with hatred against Israel and with compassion for anyone claiming to fight for...
Engineering the debate: film director and journalist agree, fight for attention
NRK’s Sidsel Wold and film director Vibeke Løkkeberg are both known critics of Israel. Now they are pretending to disagree on minor issues in order to be allowed a debate where they can agree in public. Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to Israel. Vibeke Løkkeberg is a film director who, with the aide of...
Decency is dead in Norway
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...
NTNU academic goes easy on Sayid Qutb, is harsh on west’s ‘war on Islam’
NTNU is one of the most prestigous universities in Norway. It is also home to a handful of academics who are extraordinarily keen on assigning blame to the USA and Israel. As for the interviewer above, Kim Dino Saur, this is actaully his name. He says himself it was just “a matter of time”...
Aftenposten denies journalist affiliated with lobby
Aftenposten’s chief editor is a former marxist and one of her journalists is a former Palestine-activist. Yet Aftenposten rejects allegations that it gives preference to the Palestinian narrative. The screenshot above is of an article by journalist Jon Olav Larsen in the latest issue of Karmel, a magazine published by a Christian organization by...
Stian Bromark on competing narratives: Holocaust or Naqba
Stian Bromark is a Norwegian author and journalist. In the weekly Ny Tid of July 9th 2010, Bromark comments on Giblert Achcar’s book “The Arabs and the Holocaust” on the competition between narratives. Bromark writes: “Holocaust is not as large a trauma as it is in Europe, and thereby there is less knowledge. The...
Rock n’roll kaffiyeh
The screenshot above is from the article “Worst we have experienced” in Verdens Gang (VG), one of Norway’s largest newspapers (Journalists Milde C.Melland and Atle Jørstad). The article reports on the experiences of some Norwegian girls at the music festival of Roskilde in Denmark. Attending this festival is something of a rite of passage....
NRK news reports at length on Palestinian boycott of settler produce
Arab aggression against Israel started long before there were any Jewish settlers on the West Bank, indeed even before there was an Israel at all. Jewish settlers occupy only a fraction of the land that Muslims occupy in Israel. Yet NRK attributes tremendous importance to the settlements. It is because of the settlements, NRK...