While even Dagbladet has sussed out that the continuous stream of filthy garbage lies against Israel stands out like a giant tree trunk jammed into the sanctimonious eyeballs of the entire Norwegian anti-Israel crowd, compared to their shameful silence and…
Nazi rhetoric
Helgeland Arbeiderblad: Not a coincidence that Anders Behring Breivik sympathizes with the progressive Party
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By its contents, this diatribe could have been published in some fringe website. It is not: this has been published in a “respectable” regional daily newspaper of the left wing, Helgeland Arbeiderblad (Labour affiliated): HARASSMENT OF PALESTINIANS BY CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS…
Oh no! Galtung’s Nazi reading recommendations now picked up by Haaretz
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Here is a nursery rhyme Galtung might consider now that he has been consigned to the academic scarp heap: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men…
Aftenposten allows anti-Semitic comments
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Aftenposten today published an oped by Martin Bodd, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, responding to a proposal by Aftenposten’s editor for culture and debate Knut Olav Åmås to name a square after one of the Jewish children we sent off…
Finn Graff’s cartoons came home to roost
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In relation with the release of Gilad Shalit from unlawful kidnapping in Gaza, more than 1000 Palestinian terrorists, many with lots of blood on their hands, Norwegian cartoonist Finn Graff found no better way to celebrate the fact than to…
Ouch, Nesbru school got their monies worth, first they promote anti-semitic art and now they get critical review in Ynetnews.
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Promoting hate for Israel Op-ed: European educators brainwash young minds with blatant anti-Israel views Manfred Gerstenfeld Earlier this month it became known that the German EVZ Foundation had financed two high school student programs which promoted hatred of Israel. This…
CPD for Finn Graff, Dagbladet, Nesbru High School and Norwegian Church Aid: The EU’s working definition of anti-Semitism
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One would have thought that all of the above would know the difference between legitimate criticism of Israel (and any other country), and pure anti-Semitic hate trash. Sadly experience tells us that they have no idea, and possibly also no…
Anti-Semitic exhibition that was sponsored by Norwegian Church Aid removed after student protests
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Yesterday we reported on an anti-Semitic exhibition at Nesbru High School, and how the school, at the time the local newspaper – Budstikka – wrote the story, had not yet decided whether or not to remove the entire exhibition. Miff.no…
Erling Rimehaug’s editorial in Vårt Land: Israel is taunted by Nazi label
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Erling Rimehaug seems to be the only editor who has taken Dagbladet to task on its decision to publish Finn Graffs offensive drawing. After an extensive search in online newspapers I have been unable to find other comments.That reflects poorly…
Norwegian Jews: Dagbladet demonizes Israel
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It is not only the Jewish Congregation in Oslo that reacts with disgust to Finn Graffs offensive drawing. An article by Vårt Land, explores not only the shock and disgust among Norwegian Jews, but also that of other editors, including…
Dagbladet cartoonist Finn Graff: “Jedem das Seine” to illustrate article on prisoner swap
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The leader of the Jewish congregation in Oslo, Erwin Kohn, has reacted strongly to a drawing by Dagbladet cartoonist Finn Graff, where he draws Palestinian prisoners being released into another “prison” – Gaza, and inserts the Buchenwald KZ lager insignia;…
Norwegians did not buy Løkkeberg’s hog
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Some time ago we wrote on how Vibeke Løkkeerg tried to adorn herself with the dead youth of Utøya by dedicating her trash movie Tears for Gaza to them, as a publicity stunt to get more votes for the Peoples…
Spot the difference, Soviet 1980, Norway 2011 – Nazism equals Zionism
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Further to previous post, QED: We really are the last Soviet state, and we really are copycats. The vast Soviet empire, in its death throes could come up with no better argument than Nazism equals Zionism. A few years later,…
National-socialist group: “Get rid of the Jewish lies”.
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Neo-nazi sites still exist. Some of them operate out of Norway. One of them is Valhalla in Norway. This site is a a shoestring affair, basically it only offers interested readers the opportunity to contact the founder. There is one…
The strange world of Trond Andresen – one of the NTNU initiators of the Boycott Israel campaign
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By now, very many people in Norway have been made aware of the academic boycott of anyone who remotely could be espousing a pro-Israel point of view. But not so many are aware that Dershowitz singled out one particular man…
Norwegian press, public debate on Jews then and now
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June 9 1943, Nazified Aftenposten writes From NTB correspondent: The American magazine Life warns of increasing antisemitism leading to shop owners being reluctant to hire Jews. The rift between Jews and non-Jews grows by the day. Roosevelt has therefore tried…
Universitas article comments rife with antisemitism
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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…
Daring artist sees ‘something like Eichmann’ in Israel, West Bank
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It is the artist’s job to paint the villain as a villain and the hero as a hero. In Norway, the villain is often Israel. And the artist? He is often subsidized by the state. An article in olsopuls tells…
Borough boycott overruled: Socialist Left uses Nürnberg trials as argument for boycott
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NRK reports that Oslo city council has overruled the Israel-boycott of the two Oslo-boroughs of Gamle Oslo and Grorud. Excerpt: This was against the votes of Rødt (Red) and SV (The Socialist Left), which wanted the entire borough to boycott…
Decency is dead in Norway
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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.…