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 AND THE PROGRESSIVES Helgeland Arbeiderblad 2012 05 07 Øystein MJ In spite of that...
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 […]
Nazi rhetoric
Oh no! Galtung’s Nazi reading recommendations now picked up by Haaretz
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 Couldn’t put Humpty together again lifted from Haaretz (with thanks to Paula) Published 20:18...
Aftenposten allows anti-Semitic comments
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 to an early and cruel death in Auschwitz in 1942. The talkbacks to this...
Finn Graff’s cartoons came home to roost
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 draw an anti-Semitic cartoon. At the time, Mr. Graff and (former) editor in chief...
Ouch, Nesbru school got their monies worth, first they promote anti-semitic art and now they get critical review in Ynetnews.
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 state foundation was created to compensate Holocaust slave workers and fight contemporary anti-Semitism. In...
CPD for Finn Graff, Dagbladet, Nesbru High School and Norwegian Church Aid: The EU’s working definition of anti-Semitism
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 wish to educate themselves on these matters. So, realizing that they have been under-educated,...
Anti-Semitic exhibition that was sponsored by Norwegian Church Aid removed after student protests
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 brings us the latest developments (unauthorized translation): Demonization of Israel removed after student protests...
Erling Rimehaug’s editorial in Vårt Land: Israel is taunted by Nazi label
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 on the wider media to acknowledge that the red line is routinely crossed when...
Norwegian Jews: Dagbladet demonizes Israel
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 Jahn Otto Johansen, the former (and formidable) editor in chief of Dagbladet. Norwegian Jews...
Dagbladet cartoonist Finn Graff: “Jedem das Seine” to illustrate article on prisoner swap
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; Jedem das Seine (to each what he deserves). Kohn has written an oped in...
Norwegians did not buy Løkkeberg’s hog
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 Amanda award she had been shortlisted for. I am delighted to let you know...
Spot the difference, Soviet 1980, Norway 2011 – Nazism equals Zionism
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, thanks to the mediocrity, the corruption, the perversion of an unfree and unjust society,...
National-socialist group: “Get rid of the Jewish lies”.
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 sentence in English though: Valhalla of Norway is basicly like any other national socialist...
The strange world of Trond Andresen – one of the NTNU initiators of the Boycott Israel campaign
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 for chiding: Trond Andresen, one of the NTNU initiators of the call for academic...
Norwegian press, public debate on Jews then and now
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 to get as many Jews as possible jobs in state departments. This is not...
Universitas article comments rife with antisemitism
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...
Daring artist sees ‘something like Eichmann’ in Israel, West Bank
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 of how Artist Henrik Placht sees great evil in Israel. The nazi-reich is acknowledged...
Borough boycott overruled: Socialist Left uses Nürnberg trials as argument for boycott
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 Israeli produce. Read also: 300 new members after boarding The government party Socialist Left...
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...
Cartoon: Netanyahu builds Auschwitz for Palestinians
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