April 9 marks a very solemn day in Norway, a day when we commemorate the German invasion in 1940. Typically, Norwegians will dwell on the importance of freedom, and also an adequate defense (which according to some military big wigs…
Holocaust distortion
Public meeting at the Literature House today – what do we do about the new anti-Semitism?
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Aftenposten and NRK organized a public meeting on how to confront the new anti-Semitism in Norway. The debate was sporadically very tense and SV’s Kristin Halvorsen got a dressing down over left’s failure to confront its anti-Semitic attitudes: lifted from…
Look what Norwegian Ship to Gaza chapter has on its Facebook…
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http://www.facebook.com/groups/144782858899578/, you must scroll down a little to find this entry, posted by Rabea Arar. Maybe Mr. Arar and the rest of these miscreants could be bothered to put this story into the proper historical context, in stead of presenting…
20 people remember 3 year anniversary for Gaza campaign – they forgot to mention Gaza rockets, but calls Gaza campaign a ‘Holocaust’
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THREE YEARS SINCE BOMBING OF GAZA Ship to Gaza Norway, no date, Nikolaos Tavridis-Hansen Summary. In anti-Israel demo on December 29th 2011, held nearby the Israeli embassy in Oslo, Mr. Nikolaos Tavridis-Hansen of the Norwegian Ship to Gaza, held a…
The debate rolls back and forth II – Right of reply for Gerstenfeld
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The Christian daily Dagen, has followed up the interview with Kohn with a reply from Gerstenfeld: The Norwegian government takes lightly on anti-Israeli terror, and indirectly supports such terror. This is a double standard on behalf of the Norwegian cultural…
Hunting for votes
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A comment by Vetle Lid Larssen, Aftenposten August 12, 2011, with thanks to Erwin Kohn who made me aware of it. Hunting for votes Every time somebody draws parallels between the fate of the Jews and other forms of racism,…
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…
Op-ed on anti-Semitism: Israel created because of Holocaust…
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In an op-ed on anti-Semitism, the author claims that the state of Israel was created in consequence of the Holocaust. The op-ed does have a lot of fine features, as it for instance points out that anti-Semitism in by no…
‘The abuse of Holocaust memory’ to be published in Norwegian
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Manfred Gerstenfeld, nemesis of Norwegian anti-Semites, has written the well received book “The abuse of Holocaust remembrance”. The book is now being translated into Norwegian. This is excellent news that Idag.no brings us! With only 240 pages the book is…
Prof.Volli on Norway, Quisling and Mathisen
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Professor of Semiotics Ugo Volli, at the University of Turin, has written a piece on Norway, Quisling and Mathisen in the Informazione Corretta. It is interesting to notice how quickly Labor was allowed to distance itself from Anders Mathisen after…
JP: Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker
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The Jerusalem Post, which Aftenposten editor Harald Stanghelle claims is a right-wing rag way past its prime, has an article on the Holocaust-denying Labor politico Anders Mathisen. From JP article “Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker“: … There is no evidence the…
Haaretz on holocaust-denying Labor politico
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Up here in Norway, Labor got away from the holocaust-denial of one of its members pretty easily. It was an isolated incident. A matter of no significance. It was a Sami member of the Sami parliament. Who cares? Haaretz does,…
The strange world of Trond Andresen – one of the NTNU initiators of the Boycott Israel campaign
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By now, very many people in Norway have been made aware of the academic boycott of anyone who remotely could be espousing a pro-Israel point of view. But not so many are aware that Dershowitz singled out one particular man…
Mark Steyn mentions Anders Mathisen
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Norway has already forgot about Anders Mathisen, the Labor politico who last week caused an online-only-uproar by denying the Holocaust. Political analyst Mark Steyn, a Canadian, has just heard about him. On his website Mark Steyn links to the Ynet…
Holocaust denying labour politician made it to the international media!
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Here is the latest on the sad saga of the Sami labour politician who denied the Holocaust. He made it to the ynet.com, where we are now getting our noses bloodied. So, just because Mathisen thinks he can hide behind…
Sami politico plans contemplates funny holiday trip to Auschwitz
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Anders Mathisen was a Labor politico until he denied the Holocaust, whereupon Labor found that Mathisen had not paid his annual party-membership fee and was therefore no longer a member of the party. Nor will he be allowed to rejoin,…
Norvegia: il deputato laburista Anders Mathiesen nega l’Olocausto
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Andrea Carancini is on the Mathisen case. Seems to be a pretty well-ordered blog, too: Traduco il seguente pezzo più per il suo interesse politico (e per l’obbiettivo coraggio del deputato laburista norvegese) che per l’effettiva competenza del deputato in…
Holocaust-denying politico: ‘I am being excluded for speaking the truth’
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Until only two days ago, Anders Mathisen was a virtually unknown politician for Labor. Then Finnmarken, a local newspaper, broke the story of how Mathisen is a vehement Holocaust-denier. Labor has since found that Mathisen has not paid his party-membership…
Holocaust-denier is ‘not a member of Labor’
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On March 11th we learned that Labor politico Anders Mathisen was a Holocaust-denier. Labor acted swiftly. Discovering that Mathisen had not paid his party-membership fee, Labor stated that Mathiesen was not a party-member and that he would not be allowed…
Labor tries to exclude Holocaust-denier
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Yesterday every newspaper in Norway reported on how Labor politico Anders Mathisen denies that the Holocaust has happened. Today we learn that Labor does not recognize Mathisen as a member of the party as he has not paid his annual…