• Red Cross suggests Norwegian Jews be tried for war-crimes
    Almost every week it seems, some prominent Norwegian steps up and demands that some sort of action be taken against the state of Israel. Last week it was the Bishops’ Boycott, which fortunately was called of. Now it’s the Red Cross. Unauthorized translation from Dagenmagazinet: Wants Norwegian Jews scrutinized for war-crimes New information show that several […]
  • Opposition claims gov has made light of anti-Semitism
    The Progress Party is Norway’s second largest and has a proven track record for standing up against anti-Semitism. Now one of party’s leading figures,Per-Willy Amundsen, blames government for having made light of, and thereby enabling, the upsurge of anti-Semitism in Norway. Mr.Amundsen appeals directly to Norway’s Minister of Education Kristin Halvorsen (So […]
  • Is Norway facing the end of a beginning?
    For too long anti-Semitism in Norway has been a non-topic. For too long, it has been all but impossible to even suggest publicly that the wildly disproportionate, so called “legitimate criticism” of Israel is at least in part motivated by racist hatred. The good news is that the playing field might soon level out. Here’s five [...] […]
  • Tormod Strand’s broadcast translated into French: L’éducation de la haine en Norvège
    One of the foreign sites to follow NIJ is JSS, which now has translated parts of the transcript from the broadcast on anti-Semitism in Norway put together by journalist Tormod Strand. The translation has attracted 11 talkbacks. Read the full post on JSS, excerpt below: La chaîne de télévision nationale norvégienne NRK a interviewé des enseignants [...] […]
  • Anti-Semitism in Norwegian schools
    Unauthorized translation from NRK (State Broadcasting) on anti-Semitism in Norwegian schools: Pupils admire Hitler NRK has spoken with teachers of 10th – 12th form (junior high) schools where many of the pupils are muslim. None of the teachers dare let themselves be interviewed. They fear reprisals from pupils, and are therefore anonymous: Teacher 1, woman: […]
  • State television NRK broadcasts on anti-Semitism in Norway
    Forces of evil are moving. Today state television NRK broadcast  on anti-Semitism in Norway. The broadcast, which was approximately five minutes long, was put together by NRK journalist Tormod Strand and sent during prime time as part of the national news at 7 pm. There was an introduction on the state of affairs in Malmö, Sweden, [...] […]
  • New blog: Spain, Israel and the Jews
    The Spanish-speaking world is of growing importance both in terms of demographics, economy and political leverage. And the cultural hub of the Spanish-speaking world will of course continue to be Spain. It is therefore a good thing to see that a new blog: Spain, Israel and the Jews, will keep us non-Spanish speakers [...] […]
  • From Marx to Quisling
    Prominent Norwegians such as Kristin Halvorsen, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse are not actually doing anything new. They are merely part of a political tradition of the Norwegian left-wing which stretches back to at least the 1930-ies. One of the authors to deal with this aspect of Norwegian political history is Øystein Sørensen, who in his [...] […]
  • Document.no: Pogroms in Oslo
    Document.no is more than a blog, it is a community. Whatsmore it is intelligent, well-mannered and subsequently growing, which makes a lot of people somewhat worried. Document.no now offers a lengthy post on Norwegian author Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-jewish riots in Oslo”. Unauthorized translation from Pogroms in Oslo: Researchers and the police can say: […]
  • Malmö: Ever since I came here people have been shouting ‘fucking Jew’ at me
    Anyone concerned for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Scandinavia who is not reading Sweden, Israel and the Jews is robbing themselves blind. If you follow Sweden, this is the place to go. Ilya Meyer has a larger archive. On the other hand Norwegian newspapers, with exception being made for Aftenposten, are not particularly interested in [...] […]

Opposition claims gov has made light of anti-Semitism

The Progress Party is Norway’s second largest and has a proven track record for standing up against anti-Semitism. Now one of party’s leading figures,Per-Willy Amundsen, blames government for having made light of, and thereby enabling, the upsurge of anti-Semitism in Norway. Mr.Amundsen appeals directly to Norway’s Minister of Education Kristin Halvorsen (Socialist Left).

Unauthorized translation from [...]

Tormod Strand's broadcast translated into French: L’éducation de la haine en Norvège

One of the foreign sites to follow NIJ is JSS, which now has translated parts of the transcript from the broadcast on anti-Semitism in Norway put together by journalist Tormod Strand. The translation has attracted 11 talkbacks. Read the full post on JSS, excerpt below:

La chaîne de télévision nationale norvégienne NRK a interviewé des enseignants [...]

State television NRK broadcasts on anti-Semitism in Norway

Forces of evil are moving.

Today state television NRK broadcast  on anti-Semitism in Norway. The broadcast, which was approximately five minutes long, was put together by NRK journalist Tormod Strand and sent during prime time as part of the national news at 7 pm. There was an introduction on the state of affairs in Malmö, Sweden, [...]

Document.no: Pogroms in Oslo

Document.no is more than a blog, it is a community. Whatsmore it is intelligent, well-mannered and subsequently growing, which makes a lot of people somewhat worried. Document.no now offers a lengthy post on Norwegian author Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-jewish riots in Oslo”. Unauthorized translation from Pogroms in Oslo:

Researchers and the police can say: “But [...]

Malmö: Ever since I came here people have been shouting ‘fucking Jew’ at me

Anyone concerned for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Scandinavia who is not reading Sweden, Israel and the Jews is robbing themselves blind. If you follow Sweden, this is the place to go. Ilya Meyer has a larger archive. On the other hand Norwegian newspapers, with exception being made for Aftenposten, are not particularly interested in [...]

Aftenposten centrefold on anti-Semitism in Malmö

Aftenposten: Norway's second largest newspaper

Aftenposten today covers anti-Semitism in Malmö in Sweden with the article “Jew-hatered has reappaered in Malmö“. The article tells of how; a) a Holocaust survivor has been called a lier by Malmö-schoolchildren b) the mayor Ilmar Reepalu has denied that Jews have been attacked, that it is no business of [...]

Wall Street Journal on Malmö anti-Semitism

Do not go gently into that horrid night

The Wall Street Journal does not often acknowledge the existence of the Scandinavian countries. It does so now. The scandalous events in Malmö has seen to that. Perhaps soon, WSJ will pick up on the situation in Norway. God knows we have the material.

Excerpt from the article [...]

The Tablet on Norway: Oslo Discord

The Tablet – “A new read on Jewish Life” – runs an interesting piece by Asgeir Ueland titled Oslo Discord. Ueland observes that Norway has shifted from being staunch supporters of Israel to a pro-Palestinian stance, and attempts to identify how this change has come about. In an interview with the well-known Israel-critic Lars Gule, [...]

Aftenposten: Jew-hatred among Israel's enemies

Aftenposten’s Jørgen Lohne today writes an interesting piece on how Israel’s enemies are, at least in part, motivated by racist hatred. This is not something which the Norwegian media often reports on.

Lohne’s article tells of how conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 and the like fester and about how Europe exported anti-Semitism to the Middle East and [...]

Opposition claims Støre endorses 'Eyes in Gaza'

The Progress Party is Norway’s second largest and will often be found in fierce resistance to the red-green coalition government. On the party’s website politician Øyvind Vaksdal now voices discontent over how Foreign Minister Støre wrote the back-cover praise for NORWAC doctors Gilbert and Fosse’s book “Eyes in Gaza”, in which it is alleged that [...]

Is Afghanistan like Warsaw?

During Cast Lead, Hamas successfully hid behind their own civilian population. Their diabolical strategy left approximately 1400 Palestinian civilians dead. Now Norwegian politician Bjørnar Moxnes from Red (Rødt) claims in an op-ed in Dagsavisen that 2500 Afghan civilians have been killed during combat operations. While it is uncertain where Mr.Moxnes has this figure from, it [...]

L’écrivain norvégien Jahn Otto Johansen inquiet de la montée de l’antisémitisme en Europe

For better and for worse, Norway is accustomed to being so far away from the rest of the world that most of the time they do not even know we are there. When a post from this blog is translated into French in just a few hours, this may be indicative of a situation where [...]

Safed-Tzfat translates review of Eiglad’s book

It appears that Midtstuen is not the only Spanish-speaking blog showing an interest in Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo”. Safed-Tzfat has been burning the midnight oil and translated the entire (rather lenghty) book-review by Christian Tau, posted on Z-Word Blog. Excerpt below, visit Safed-Tzfat for the entire review in Spanish:

Las 103 páginas [...]

Aftenposten: Jew-hatred runs deep

Elsbeth Wessel's book on Jews in Austria

Aftenposten today runs a full-page op-ed by Jahn Otto Johansen, a well known Norwegian writer, on European Jew-hatred. He points out that an array of new surveys show that anti-Semitism is increasing throughout Europe, points out that Austria has an especially sordid history in this respect, and reviews [...]

Aftenposten covers anti-Semitism in Malmö

Aftenposten today publishes a story on anti-Semitism in Malmö. On the one hand this is good: Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers and the situation in Malmö has up to now received little – if any – attention from the Norwegian media. On the other hand this is old news – why are Norwegian [...]