Think tanks that think one way

Galtung gets flogged in Norwegian press

by McGonagall • April 30, 2012 • 4 Comments

Here is a small selection of reactions to Galtungs rants. All, bar a literature and culture festival located at a small hamlet outside Haugesund, condemn Galtung. The festival SILK plans to host Galtung as a main attraction, see bottom of page…

by McGonagall • November 11, 2011 • 8 Comments

Thanks to Tundratabloids who drew my attention to this story: Joint statement by all 5 Nordic FM’s on Norway’s Foreign Ministry’s web page. It makes my hair stand on end. Nordic countries concerned about measures against Palestinians You are here: Government.no…

by McGonagall • September 2, 2011 • 9 Comments

Now that we have the ruling from the UN on the matter, could we please ask the following persons, or organizations to retract their statements or amend their entries so that they reflect reality: SV: Gaza blockade is illegal The…

by Kafka • June 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

Jørgen Jensehaugen is what passes for an “expert” on Middle Eastern affairs in Norway. Apart from an IB from Rome, his main qualification is that he worked as a research assistant for Hilde Henriksen Waage and has his degrees in…

by McGonagall • May 20, 2011 • 23 Comments

While the media obsession with Israel seems to go through a little lull right now, and no major issue involving Israel directly, other small voices can be heard. For instance, the former reader’s ombudsman (yes, there is actually such a…

by McGonagall • March 21, 2011 • 10 Comments

Idag brings us a fascinating story on The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and their unique offer to bring international Law expert and top Harvard Law School lecturer Alan Dershowitz to give free lectures, breakfast conferences to Norwegian leading politicians and…

by admin • March 7, 2011 • 1 Comment

Like most Norwegian apparatchiks, Jan Egeland (Labor, NUPI) likes to find fault with Israel. He is now leaving NUPI in order to work with Human Rights Watch, an organization which in 2009 was criticized by its own founder for being…

by admin • March 4, 2011 • 0 Comments

If you want to be considered savvy and erudite in Norway, you blame the west as a rule of thumb. Not only for problems in the specific western countries themselves, but for problems in general. Helge Lurås, a senior researcher…

by admin • March 3, 2011 • 0 Comments

Norway is a small society. At the top, people are so tightly crammed together it is a wonder they are able to breathe. In this human pyramid they jostle and support and feed of each other. The article below is…

by admin • February 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

In their eagerness to “hook up” with the grim realities of the world, the Norwegian intelligentsia has a proven track record of ending up as distorters of reality and whitewashers of the most despicable events. Above we see Anders Heger…

by admin • February 7, 2011 • 1 Comment

Tilde Rosmer is a quintessential Norwegian ME-pundit. She takes the Palestinian narrative at face value, believes the Saudi peace-plan of 2002 was a fair deal for Israel, and appears to scorn any notion of Israel being more democratic than her…

by admin • February 4, 2011 • 1 Comment

When NORWAC doctor Erik Fosse was stabbed in Gaza while attending a Hamas-rally he expressed understanding for his attacker. He was, after all, a westerner. Today Dagbladet publishes an op-ed by NUPI senior researcher Sverre Lodgaard, who interprets popular uprisings…

by admin • November 29, 2010 • 2 Comments

The Norwegian left-of-centre feels ennobled by criticizing the USA and Israel for sins it lets go unheeded in other countries. Today, as it is revealed that President Aliyev of Azerbaijan finds Statoil to be “on the side of Iran”, Jan…

by admin • September 6, 2010 • 0 Comments

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…

by admin • September 1, 2010 • 2 Comments

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,…

by admin • July 30, 2010 • 0 Comments

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.…

by admin • July 22, 2010 • 0 Comments

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…

by admin • June 12, 2010 • 0 Comments

by admin • June 3, 2010 • 0 Comments

Turkey and Norway are both NATO members. Now two Fafo researchers claim that Israel’s boarding of the FGM flotilla may be seen as the equivalent of a declaration of war on Turkey. The consequences of this claim, if it should…

by admin • January 21, 2010 • 0 Comments

In an question and answer session in Aftenposten, Professor Ole O. Moen states that Obama has “too many” pro-Israelites in his administration and that this impedes the peace process. Professor Moen furthermore attributes this to the strength of the Israel-lobby,…

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