• 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 […]

Document.no: From blog to publishing house

Screenshot from Document.no

Document.no is more than a blog but not quite a movement. Yet. It is finding its feet, though, and has already hosted several very successful seminars with more to come. The latest initiative consists of a piece-meal purchase of the publishing rights to Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the revolutions in Europe. Document.no, [...]

Hezbollah rally in front of Louvre

As noticed previously Norwegian author Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” has been met with quite a lot of interest in France, receiving coverage on a score of websites. After watching the clip above, this makes sense. The flags of Hezbollah, the cries of “Death to Jews”, the burning [...]

Foreign Minister Støre co-hosts meeting on Middle East in Brussels

Foreign Minister Støre hosts meeting on Middle East in Brussels

The announcement above is from the official web-site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Unauthorized translation:

USA’s special envoy to the Middle East, senator George Mitchell and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre are Tuesday January 12th hosts for a meeting with EU’s high representative for foreign [...]

The Holocaust and the Baltics

The Baltic countries (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) were once part of Sweden and until quite recently had Swedish-speaking minorities. Culturally and historically they are far more attached to the west than their geographic location entails.

Sadly it appears that the Baltic countries now are experiencing Holocaust obfuscation and revision. Keep track of events on the website [...]

ECI asked to take the lead in securing separate portfolio for anti-Semitism in the new European Commission

Norway is not part of the European Union. Exactly why this is the case there is little consensus, but we can observe that proponents of EU membership live in the densely populated areas of the south-east. Resistence to joining is fierce in the socalled districts, sparsely populated regions distributed throughout the realm. But if Norway [...]

ADL: “Counter academic boycotts of Israel”

ADL CALLS ON EUROPEAN UNION
TO COUNTER ACADEMIC BOYCOTTS OF ISRAEL

 
New York, NY, November 4, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged the European Union to disqualify any university that adopts an anti-Israel academic boycott from participating in the E.U.’s student exchange program, Erasmus.
            The board of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in [...]

ECI calls upon Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt

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ECI expresses concern over rising anti-Semitism in Sweden and election victories of racist parties in the European Parliament;

Calls for emergency EU-summit [...]

ECI newsflash: Alf Svensson from Sweden elected to European Parliament

Here is an excerpt from the most recent ECI newsletter.

Four new members in the European Parliament who can make a difference for Israel

The “Pray and Vote 2009” campaign did make a difference. After carefully studying the results from the European Parliament elections we have concluded that the Lord (together with the voters) [...]

Christianity in Europe – a spent political force?

There are those who say aye and there are those who say nay. Tomas Sandell of the ECI is one of the latter, and he is wearing out his slippers trying to prove it! Here is an excerpt from the ECI’s status report of June, visit ECI for more information.

French [...]

“Lament in Oslo” – Elana Bonner, wife of deceased Andrei Sakharov

Yelena Georgevna Bonner, born February 15, 1923, is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov. She comments upon Norway in a recent article in the Jerusalem Post. Here is an excerpt:

“In many of Sakharov’s publications (in his books Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom and [...]

ECJ and the European Parliament

Is Christianity a spent force in Europe? There are those who think otherwise. Here is a message from Tomas Sandell in the European Coalition for Israel:

Dear friends,

We are now less than two weeks away from the European Parliament elections on 4-7 June.
Please help us mobilize as many  as possible to pray [...]

The European Parliament and the christian vote

The European Coalition for Israel is launching a campaign to “mobilize, inspire and inform Christians about the upcoming European Parliament elections”. Read more about ECI on their website.  From their newsletter:

The primary concerns of ECI and its supporters are the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and the current nuclear threat [...]

Lookit funny jew, funny Muhammed

Here are two funnies. One is “funny jew”, from the Aalst carnival parade in Belgium. As Philosemitism notes:

Pictures taken at this years’ famous Aalst carnival parade. Middle-aged men are disguised as orthodox Jews with crooked noses and wearing a yellow star. The Palestinian keffiehs and the combat helicopters (photo on the right) only serve to demonize Israel [...]

“Where are all the rest?”

 

The awakened conscience

Here’s feelgood post from Philosemite. The quote of Elie Wiesel and the answer from Tomas Sandell is touching.
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European Coalition for Israel director calls for broad coalition against anti-Semitism

“As faith leaders we have a duty to be “our brothers’ keeper” and cannot keep silent when Jews are again threatened on the [...]

Dutch Foreign Minister deplores revived antisemitism in Europe

With regards to the events in Malmö yesterday, here is a snippet of information from Philosemitism on the Dutch Foreign Minister:

—–Excerpt from Philosemitism begins 

“It is an excuse for terrorists, but also for youth to raise hell. Not only in the Netherlands, but in whole of Europe you see that. Calls to a new intifada and [...]