• 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
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  • 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 […]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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National Review on Oslo and the "Progs"

Editor of the National Review Jay Nordlinger recently visited Norway to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum 2010. He also got to know the Norwegian “progs”, members of the Norwegian Progress Party. Notice how Nordlinger has noticed what sadly has become one of Norway’s salient features – a pathological [...]

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The JCPA sends out a daily alert five times a week, to more than 200 000 people around the world. Study the excerpt below and ask yourself the following questions:

1) Is it correct that US Senator Brownback has sent a letter to the Norwegian ambassador to Washington DC, where he expresses concern over Israel-hatred and [...]

Norway and Sweden: A Safe Haven for Dangerous Islamist Terrorists

In the good old days, our post-industrial elites could wreck havoc on society without anyone noticing. In the internet age however, news spreads fast. Emerson Vermaat comments on Pipeline.

August 16, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org – Norway’s daily “Aftenposten” reported in June 2009 that 33 Taliban asylum seekers were allowed to stay in [...]

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 [...]

National Review: Up in Norway, part IV

Jay Nordlinger of National Review has written a series of articles on Norway. In the latest he points out: Let me give you one tidbit: In Jensen’s office are a) a bust of Reagan and b) an Israeli flag. Ladies and gentlemen, I can’t tell you how shocking this is in Norway. I just can’t. [...]

THE DREAM OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER IN OSLO: THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD BOMBARD ISRAEL WITH ROCKETS

The intellectual climate in Norway is such that a politician can daydream of seeing the UN precision-bomb Israel and defend suicide bombers, and still be portrayed as a “peace dove”.

Norwegians are conditioned to accept such logic. Not all foreigners are. One of them is Manfred Gerstenfeld, editor of “Behind the Humanitarian Mask”, [...]

Breaking: Letter from US Senator Brownback on anti-Semitism in Norway

Soria Moria, the fantasy kingdom, by Theodor Kittelsen and the name of the program of the coalition government. Do not expect to find Senator Brownback's letter on display when you arrive.

On August 3rd, US Senator Brownback wrote a letter to the Ambassador of Norway in Washington DC. In his letter [...]

An appeal to the US Norwegian Caucus

It had to happen sooner or later. The insular nature of Norwegian politics has manifested itself in different forms of groupthink and that to such an extent that even foreigners are noticing. You see below a letter from Professor Ben Lerner, a retired professor of psychology at a university in New York State, to Senator [...]

Peres on Scandinavians: 'Their logic is the same as that of Marie Antoinette'

Marie Antoinette never made the "give them cakes" statement. But if she had, she would have qualified as a Scandinavian

Historian Benny Morris interviews Israel’s president Shimon Peres in the Tablet, a Jewish cultural magazine. Peres states about Scandinavians:

BM: Right. But why the delegitimization, especially in the West?

SP: Firstly, there is a problem [...]

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Snapshot picks up on the nomination of Manfred Gerstenfeld for the Norwegian Media Victim award of Stray Spetalen. We have copied the entire post this time, rather than just an excerpt. Visit Snapshot anyway, it’s an up-to-date, intelligent website:

And the Nominee for Norwegian Media Victim of the Year Is…

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

So unbridled is [...]

La mort de 4 soldats norvégiens reçoit la même couverture médiatique que celle de 9 jihadistes

Philosemitism operates out of Belgium/France, but sneaks a glance up at the Scandinavian peninsula from time to time:

Norway, Israel and the Jews (Media coverage: Four dead Norwegians equal nine dead Jihadis) a établi que la mort récente de quatre soldats norvégiens en Afghanistan a fait l’objet d’une couverture médiatique d’égale importance à celle de neufs jihadistes [...]

La tronche pas très catholique d’Israël (quotidien norvégien)

From ever vigilant Philosemitism:

“Beaucoup de Juifs se font appeler le peuple élu de Dieu. Mais le comportement d’Israël devient de plus en plus embarrassant pour le Seigneur. [...] Le peuple élu de Dieu a des dirigeants qu’aucun pays ne mérite.”

On se souviendra de la célèbre phrase de Georges Frêche au sujet de “la tronche pas catholique” [...]

Des députés norvégiens portent le keffieh pour protester contre Israël

Philosemitism operates out of Belgium, where things are getting increasingly ugly. But the situation in our countries is interlinked, these are not isolated incidents that we are seeing:

Une fois de plus on voit que les femmes sont plus nombreuses que les hommes dans les manifestations d’hostilité contre Israël.

En Suède l’anti-israélisme bat également son [...]