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 speech directed against Israel, the translator contends himself with translating the first lines of...
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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 elite Norwegian double standards Chairman of the Oslo DMT claims in Dagen that I...
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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, I get suspicious. Not because the Jews are the only persecuted people in the...
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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 in todays Norway), she has underlined that Muslims today are not subject to the...
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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 means a “muslim” problem. In this, Mr.Ali is entirely correct. But he is completely...
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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 relatively slender, but it packs a vicious punch. “Says who?” our readers might ask....
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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 he publicly denied the holocaust. Contrast this with how the media fell on the...
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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 gas chambers or mass graves existed,” he told the newspaper, according to reports. “Even reputable...
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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, enough to run an article on the matter. From the Haaretz article “Norwegian lawmaker...
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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 for chiding: Trond Andresen, one of the NTNU initiators of the call for academic...
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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 article with the following words: OSLO …BESIDES, IT NEVER HAPPENED A member of the...
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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 his sami ethnicity to have a go at another ethnic group, I need to...
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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, Labor has stated. Mathisen now states that he contemplates taking a “funny” holiday to...
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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 questione, su cui ho delle riserve. L’”Olocausto” è materia complessa: per i “profani” è...
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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 fee and therefore is no longer a member of Labor, neither will he be...
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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 to rejoin. Multiple newspapers have followed the case – online. There has been very...
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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 party-member fee. Labor has moved swiftly in this affair, sending out a strong signal....
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To such an extent is Arbeiderpartiet (Labor) the most powerful political structure in Norway, that Norway’s most prominent political historian Jens Arup Seip once claimed Norway should be acknowledged as a one-party state. Today Dagbladet informs us that Labor politician Anders Mathiesen denies the Holocaust. Dagbladet publishes the story under the title “Labor politician...
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It is the artist’s job to paint the villain as a villain and the hero as a hero. In Norway, the villain is often Israel. And the artist? He is often subsidized by the state. An article in olsopuls tells of how Artist Henrik Placht sees great evil in Israel. The nazi-reich is acknowledged...
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Two Norwegian historians are claiming that Germany is romanticizing the occupation of Norway, when it is a fact that more Norwegian soldiers fought for Hitler than against him, that it was the Norwegian police who rounded up the Norwegian Jews, and that such a large number of Norwegian women swarmed to the Hugo Boss-dressed German soldiers that Norway...
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