Odd 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...
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 […]
The media is the message
Frank Rossavik in Morgenbladet on Israel as the rebellious victim
Frank Rossavik is an interesting fellow – a journalist, a writer, a former press secretary for the Socialistic Left party, information officer for the Norwegian Euro-movement. He has written several critical articles on the Norwegian press coverage of Israel and the ME conflict, so he is not a fellow you easily dismiss, even when...
NRK journalist Odd Karsten Tveit wants to ban book by Israeli professor
The other day the following story came to my attention: About a year ago, NRK radio interviewed TV reporter Odd Karsten Tvedt in the weekly program “The bookshelf of shame”. In it our friend Tveit found it opportune to denounce a book on the history of the PLO in Lebanon, by professor at the...
Has NRK reduced the Middle East to a black/white depiction of the Israel/Palestinian conflict?
Israel claims state broadcaster NRK’s coverage of the Middle East is an ongoing journalistic failure. On April 28th NRK hosts a public hearing on the matter. Hopefully, the public hearing will deal with at least most of the issues listed in the letter above. For a few examples of what Israel’s case is based...
PFU to Israel: Sorry, NRK is out of bounds
Israel claims state broadcaster NRK’s coverage of the Middle East is an ongoing journalistic failure. On April 28th NRK hosts a public hearing on the matter. The reason NRK has to rule on itself in this matter? Well, as the letter above makes clear it’s out of bounds for the press media complaints division...
Coming: public hearing NRK vs Israel
Israel claims state broadcaster NRK’s coverage of the Middle East is an ongoing journalistic failure. On April 28th NRK hosts a public hearing on the matter. For a few examples of what Israel’s case is based upon, see this post. Regarding the public hearing, it will be held on April 28th, room 7/8, starting...
Deep state: NRK and the left-of-centre
It is no secret that NRK is closely aligned with Labor. Yet many members of the Norwegian media corps owe their allegiance to parties further out to the left-of-centre. At times it almost seems as if there is a Norwegian “deep state”, working together to keep the right-of-centre out of government. The screenshot above...