• Document 15 calls on Jonas Gahr Støre to explain Senator Brownback’s letter
    "Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log" by John Charles Dollman On August 3rd  US Senator Brownback wrote a letter, expressing concern over Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism, to Norway’s ambassador to Washington DC. While this site published the letter on August 12th, Norwegian journalists failed to find it newsworthy. Members of the opposition […]
  • NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
    NRK reports on the Naqba without mentioning war which caused it 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 […]
  • Letter from Minister of Defense denies boycott of Israel, claims ‘constructive dialogue’ with Israel
    Hans Olav Syversen from the Christian Democrats refers to a letter from the Minister of Defense Vårt Land today reports that the Christian Democrats (KrF) and Conservatives (Høyre) aim to stop Minister of Defense Grete Faremo (Labor) from boycotting Israeli companies on an individual basis. The article (above) refers to a letter from […]
  • 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 […]
  • Scandinavian democracy – a guided affair
    Screenshots from Norwegian newspapers Aftenposten and DagenMagazinet Not even in Scandinavia does democracy work flawlessly. Is there an invisible hand at work? In the screenshot above (left) we see an op-ed from yesterday’s Aftenposten, with Eirik Vatnøy from Civita, a liberal think tank, asking some rather poignant questions. Vatnøy points out that it appe […]
  • Washington Post on terrorism in Norway
    Three men were apprehended this summer on suspicion of terrorism. As the Washington Post points out, we Norwegians were told that we at no time have been in any danger whatsoever. Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls In late 2009, Jakobsen went to Norway’s Police Security Service and began providing information on Davud’s activities after what he […]
  • Protected: Norway suspects Israel unethical, invests in Turkmenistan
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. […]
  • JP mentions Norway: Has Europe learned from its past?
    In material terms, being Norwegian is like winning the lottery. Intellectually it is like living in a carnival. Once groupthink sets in there is nobody left to comment upon how it affects us, and prominent citizens can act bizarrely with impunity . The JP, which editor of Aftenposten Harald Stanghelle tells us is […]
  • Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism
    In Aslak Nore book “Ekstremistan” the author predicts that in the near future, Norway will be more mulit-cultural, for good and for worse. The reader is treated to some of the latter in Nore’s interview with a Norwegian convert to Islam, who reflects upon some of her formerly held beliefs. The following […]
  • Nous allons manger des pommes de terre israéliennes », annonce notre hôte
    This blog is not about Israel or the Norwegian Jews. It is about Norway’s perception of and relationship to Israel and Jews. Yet Norway is only one little piece in a larger puzzle. It is while trying to solve this puzzle that foreigners every now and then are brought to pay attention to us up […]

Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism

In Aslak Nore book “Ekstremistan” the author predicts that in the near future, Norway will be more mulit-cultural, for good and for worse.

The reader is treated to some of the latter in Nore’s interview with a Norwegian convert to Islam, who reflects upon some of her formerly held beliefs. The following [...]

Academic former terrorist claims Muslims are the new Jews

Screenshot from Nettavisen

The illiterate and ill-read find it acceptable to compare the terms of Muslims in contemporary Norway with anti-Semitism in thirties Europe, which led to the Holocaust. It is to this crowd that Norwegian Lars Gule, academic and former terrorist,  now appeals.

Nettavisen today reports in the article “Researcher creates [...]

Is anti-Semitism good, clean fun?

From www.ikkepedia.org

The graphic above is from Ikkepedia.org. Ikkepedia looks almost identical to wikipedia and aims at being non-politically correct. So it is about being disrespectful and abusive, which on occasion can be funny. The graphic above is not funny, however. Anti-Semitism is a very serious threat to the well being of not only Norwegian [...]

Dagsavisen mentions Senator Brownback's letter

Roger Hercz is to Dagsavisen what Tzipi Livni said she refused to be to Netanyahu – a fig leaf of decency. As the first journalist in Norway he finds the Senator’s letter to be newsworthy enough to mention it in today’s newspaper, a full week after this site published it for the [...]

'Senator`s letter' carried to public by blogs

The Norwegian media does not find Senator Brownback’s letter on anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred in Norway newsworthy – as opposed to “IDF miracle socks” and “Israeli homo-imperialism” . Thanks to bloggers however, the senator`s letter is still finding its way to the public.

Among the high-quality blogs to have picked up on the story are [...]

Aftenposten: 'Radical Islamists receive asylum'

Aftenposten, front page July 15th

Aftenposten today lets us know that membership in radical Islamist groups may give grounds for asylum in Norway. The reasoning goes that Norway cannot be certain that members of such groups, if evicted from Norway, will not be tortured or killed in their home countries. This is the Mulla-Krekar-logic again. [...]

Aftenposten sanitizes Sayid Qutb

Screenshot from Aftenposten

The screenshot above is of an article in Aftenposten on June 12th, on how Marjam Salvesen Bhatti, wife of synagogue-shooter Arfan Bhatti, lauds female suicide bombers on Facebook. The factbox to the right provides a rough outline of the concept of Jihad, with the source being listed as Professor Torbjørn Knutsen from [...]

Op-ed: 'Israel is the state of evil'

Screenshot from MIFF

The screenshot above is of an op-ed titled “Israel state of evil” written by Jan Christian Häckert and published in Fredrikstad Blad. While it is not available on the internet you can read it about it on MIFF’s website. MIFF comments (unauthorized translation):

Jan Christian Häckert claims that “Israel is the state of [...]

Islamists operate out of University College, rector clueless

Screenshot from Verdens Gang

In May 2008 Islamnet invited Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni to speak at the University College of Oslo. Madni told his audience that Bush and the Jews were behind 9/11. Yet as late as in February 2010, rector Sissel Østberg refused to believe there were any extremists at her school. 

For the third time in six months the [...]

Book: 'Jews on the run'

Book by war hero Ragnar Ulstein, from Det norske samlaget

736 Norwegian Jews, almost half the population, were sent to the killing fields of WWII. Only a few survived.

In the book “Jews on the run” WWII hero Ragnar Ulstein commemorates the heroes of the saga. And yes, there were heroes. Not enough [...]

Anti-Semitism in Norway is not a ‘Muslim problem’

It’s easy to pick on the Muslims. But is it right to identify Norwegian anti-Semitism as a “Muslim problem”?

MIFF is Norway’s largest pro-Israel organization, which means that is approximately where the anti-Israel organizations were back in the fifties. MIFF cultivates a gentlemanly approach, and is consequently dragged into the gutter and beaten with [...]

Senterpartiet, Quisling and the Jews

The Bondepartiet which nurtured Vidkun Quisling is very much alive. Today it is named Senterpartiet, and it unashamedly advocates the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state though supporting the Palestinian “right of return”

The largely agrarian Senterpartiet (Center party) holds that Israel must return to the borders of 1967. The fact [...]

Winston Churchill illuminates value of Norwegian advice

Churchill & the Jews, (2007 McMillan press) is penned by Martin Gilbert, who has dozens of books to his name and was named official biographer of Winston Churchill in 1968. The book is a roller coaster ride through the life and times of a man who stood at the helm of things throughout some of [...]

Norwegians and the Holocaust

Aftenposten.no today

Aftenposten.no reports on how historian Synne Corell claims that Norwegian historians have omitted going into detail on Norwegian cooperation with the Germans during the WWII occupation, and that this particularly holds true for the roles Norwegians played in carrying out the Holocaust. Unauthorized translation:

Corell does not desire to criticize the historical works she [...]

Die Presse: Skandinaviens Juden fühlen sich nicht mehr sicher

Hilde Henriksen Waage, a Norwegian expert on the Middle East, spouts a completely unsubstantiated conspiracy theory about how a “right-wing Israeli smear campaign” is being waged against Norway. Ms.Waage never brings any facts to the table, she just repeats and repeats the allegation. And the Norwegian press prints and re-prints it with nary a critical [...]