Christian organizations in Norway who claim to be friends of Israel, now also resort to age-old anti-Semitic trick to use the upcoming Christian holidays to bash the Joos. Obviously they are coy about it, but you need not be very…
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The Mayor of Oslo and his views on freedom of speech
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Norway too, has also felt the consequences of upsetting Muslim sensitivities. Luckily, we were spared riots and gratuitous violence, which seems to be the most common way a not insignificant proportion of Muslims think they are entitled to react with…
Church matters: Christian communities in ME at historic low – Israel is at fault
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Isn’t it interesting how Israel and the whole of the ME have been all put into one big lump, in the first paragraph? Beyond this malicious error, the rest of the information does not withstand scrutiny. Sadly, this is the…
Pearls of wisdom from Norwegian clergy
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Anyone with a memory that goes back more than 2 weeks will remember how the Norwegian General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Olav Fykse, stepped right into the dog toffee with his claim that Jerusalem for Jews, is…
The level of debate on Vårt Land ethical debate forum
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With reference to yesterday’s post that Norwegian Jews are reluctant to be registered as members of the Jewish congregations. Vårt Land, which prides itself on its high ethical profile, tends to slip dangerously low in actually exercising their own ethical…
A Dickensian tale….
by McGonagall • • 23 Comments
It is Christmas, so Norwegian priests are busy spreading their gospel. Live must be deliciously simple when all your problems are one dimensional. On his next trip to Jerusalem, I shall be happy to take the Vickar Vaaland along to…
Norwegian Church Aid at it again: More violence to be used against Palestinians
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They are a special lot, these Norwegian Christians… what will be their next news feed? That the Israelis (which we all know are the Jews) use children’s blood in their matze? This seems too familiar and too low, even for…
Jewish congregation leader Ervin Kohn writes in Vårt Land that circumcision ban could lead to more xenophobia – talkbacks confirm his concern
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The leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo has posted an oped in Vårt Land on the Children’s Ombudsman’s proposal to introduce an age limit for circumcision, in reality an attempt to ban the practice. Kohn clarifies that the author…
Former leader of Jewish Congregation in Oslo wants Norwegian Jews to debate Israel
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From Vårt Land Anne Sender: The Jews must discuss Israel The former leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo criticizes Christian congregations that collect money for settlements Geir Ole Bjartvik geir.ole.bjartvik@vl.no. The former leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo says…
Kudos to Lars Gule
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Just as we have spotted, translated and uploaded stories where Lars Gule seems to have got the wrong end of the stick with regards to Judaism, Israel, we must be equally quick to do ditto when he takes a principled…
Erna Solberg says Muslims are treated like the Jews in the 1930s
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The leader of Høyre, Erna Solberg has said in an interview with VG that Muslims in todays Norway are being treated like the Norwegian Jews were treated in the 1930s. To be very fair (and this is of fundamental importance…
What is identity? What is culture? What is religion?
by McGonagall • • 1 Comment
There must be many of us who are struggling to reconcile conflicting feelings about having a wildly multicultural society thrust upon us. I am equally sure that many of those who feel that more time is needed in order to…
This unbearable pain – and the work we all have a duty to do
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We are so terribly pained, we Norwegians. We cannot bring ourselves to believe this horror that took place. It was unimaginable. And it shook us out of the innocent belief that this could not take place here. What kind of…
Un dolor insoportable… y el trabajo que todos debemos hacer
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
Estamos muy doloridos, nosotros los Noruegos. No lo podemos creer, el horror que paso. Fue algo inimaginable. Y nos saco de la inocencia de que aca no pasa nada. Que tipo de bestia puede poner una bomba en pleno centro…
Adios a un grande, farewell to Facundo Cabral
by McGonagall • • 5 Comments
A great troubadour, perhaps the last of his kind, was brutally shot and murdered in Guatemala City this morning. Facundo Cabral, a stellar performer in all of the Americas, but also in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries and in…
Vårt Land is runner up to dishonest reporting
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Vårt Land, the Christian daily which takes a wait and see approach to Israel, seems to need a little home schooling when it comes to geography, political realities of the Galilean hills. In a short article they inform us that…
Church of Norway – a ministry of dark deeds
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That the Church of Norway still has to own up to some pretty horrific views on Jews and Israel is already old news. We have previously written about how bishops minister to congregants on how the Jews no longer have…
Norwegian Church Aid organizes neutral fact-finding field trip to Hebron. Not!
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The Norwegian Church Aid organized a field trip to Hebron with special invitees: Hadja Tajik, Labor who leg humped unwritten parliamentary rules to not use the Rostrum of the Parliament for cheap populism and sported a kaffiyeh in support of…
Bishop is the new Prophet
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The Rev. Harald Nordhaug, the bishop of Bjørgvin offers new exegetic insights and refers to Palestinian political priest Naim Ateek with whom he cosponsored an event in Bergen this week. According to the Reverend Bishop, the Bible (as in the…
JP: Christian families in Bethlehem say Muslim thugs are persecuting them
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Norwegian journalists, scholars and clergymen usually attribute the difficulties of Palestinian Christians to Israel. They do not tell us about how Palestinian Muslims persecute Palestinian Christians, nor about how this is part of a larger picture where Christians having been…