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 ideals; here is a sample of what passes for polite and suitable opinion on...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- Happy 17th of MayOnce more, we gather under our flag to celebrate our freedom. Each 17th of May, the Jewish community in Oslo organize a formal and serene commemoration of Henrik Wergeland, the son of one of the member of the Constituent Assembly for our Constitution. In its original version, our Constitution was shamed by the exclusion of Jews and Jesuits in Norway, som […]
- “Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too badThe synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the speeches Støre and Stoltenberg with no end to the flowery assurances, this is what it comes down to: Jews should be content feeling prett […]
- The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2lifted from Vårt Land Synagogues receive NOK 7.2 million for security The money goes towards securing doors, upgrade the monitoring system and setting up a security fence. The Government proposes in the revised national budget to allocate 7.2 million forsecurity at the Jewish Religious Community (DMT). - No one should have to be afraid to exercise their rel […]
- Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boyAftenposten today published an op-ed from “Daniel,” a 17-year old Norwegian student who happens to be Jewish. He feels surrounded by antisemitic attitudes, ranging from comments by a fellow video game player (“just pretend they’re Jews when you aim at them”), to the inevitable “so you support killing babies?” when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inabi […]
- PalCom action ‘small and unsuccessful’lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee’s action was “small and unsuccessful” Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel’s Dead Sea products in Oslo last Tuesday (May 16) evening. The police were notified in advance and got them quickly away from the place. By Conrad Myrland Published: 16/05/201 […]
- VG’s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on IsraelAstrid Meland published an OpEd in VG on May 14, which currently is not online. MIFF has published a review article online, from where I have lifted the following: Astrid Meland believes Israel’s critics in Norway are victim of a collective neurosis, where you turn a blind eye to much worse breaches of human rights by other states. - Unethical focus on Isra […]
- Stand up, stand up – for the Hebrew MamitaIf I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say – WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none"; […]
- Oopsie – Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitismlifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free – regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the ‘mad professor’ let it rip, as is evident by the details of this op-ed. Why did not the Norwegian intelligentia react at an earlier stage? Did they perhaps agree with the previous […]
- Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the policeLifted from miff.no What can I say? Bravo! MIFF is doing an incredibly important job and luckily their hard efforts are rewarded with a healthy growth in their memberships. Maybe readers of this blog could be entreated to find a way of supporting MIFF? By the way, I have no relation to MIFF, personally or professionally – this is just a courtesy call to reco […]
- What Karsten Tveit’s award really signifiesOdd Karsten Tveit wins the Gullruten lifetime award for his propaganda news coverage from the Middle East. When it comes to correspondents in the Middle East sent by NRK (the governmental broadcasting organization financed by a surcharge on owning a television), it’s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest: you can endlessly discuss who is worse. Bu […]
Jewish/Israeli power
Gerstenfeld – auf Deutsch
Konkret is a well respected German leftist news magazine. The latest issue analyses Norway post 22/7, where among other specialists, Manfred Gerstenfeld is interviewed (I bet you this was not quite what Fredrik Græsvik and Sidsel Wold had in mind when they decided to treat him to to their lies…) Unauthorized translation and with...
Morgenbladets ugly morning face
On August 5, readers of this exotic mini-magazine were delighted with this editorial, a highbrow piece of cultural understanding. HOW The long term way of honoring the victims is to expose the kind of thoughts that poisoned the mind of the perpetrator and put an end to it. The crime must be seen in light...
Dagbladet: ‘Jews pick up crusader-sword and point it eastwards’
Today Dagbladet offers an interview with Norwegian historian Nils Rune Langeland, who believes the USA and “the Jews”, being filled with “demonic restlessness”, are the new crusaders. The Dagbladet interview is titled both “Jews take up crusader-sword and point it eastwards” (front page) and “Tracking the war-like Europe“. Journalist Inger Merete Hobbelstad interviews Norwegian...
Dagsavisen, NRK see Israel threat, Gaza-ship claims sabotaged
A Dagsavisen NTB article (above) titled “Israel threatens journalists” deals with how Israel has warned journalists against partaking in the blockade-busting experiment. NRK runs the similar article “Israel threatens media which wants to cover Gaza-convoy“. Norwegian participants on one of the ships headed for Hamas-controlled Gaza believes it has been sabotaged, perhaps by sub-sea...
‘Dear Abby, Israel keeps me under surveillance!’
ISRAEL KEEPS ME UNDER SURVEILLANCE. SHOULD I REPORT THIS TO THE POLICE. Morgenbladet 2011 06 10 No stated author (letter to the editors) In April last year, business newspaper E24 advised a reader on how to avoid hiring an applicant holding an Israeli passport and being of “wrong” descent. This week a reader writes...
National Review on ‘Rich Jews’ story
Jay Nordlinger at the National Review is one of the few foreigners who pays any attention to Norway. Let us hope that he continues to do so. This time Nordlinger has picked up on Aftenposten’s “Rich Jews threaten Obama” story. Read the National Review story. Excerpt: This morning, I learned something from Tom Gross, that...
Debate in Vårt Land: ‘It is becoming increasingly clear that the Jewish lobby in the USA rules the country…’
How much time do we Norwegians really spend worrying over Jewish power? On Saturday, Aftenposten published an article by Alf Ole Ask, its foreign correspondent to the USA, titled “Rich Jews threaten Obama“. On Sunday, Stavangeravisen published a letter from a reader under the title “Is it the Jews or the president who controls...
Aftenposten article: ‘Rich Jews threaten Obama’
We have received a number of enquiries regarding the Aftenposten article “Rich Jews threaten Obama”, which was published both online and in the paper edition of the newspaper on Saturday. Above you see a photograph of the paper edition article. The online article changed the title after readers implored the newspaper to do so....
Dagsavisen: ‘Jewish lobby lauds Obama’
On Obama’s speech to AIPAC today: Dagsavisen, a Soria-Moria mouthpiece, offers an article titled “Jewish lobby lauds Obama” (Above, top). Against the backdrop of Aftenposten’s top-story “Rich Jews threaten Obama”, this is only arguably good news. We now have the following sequence: 1. Obama states that 1967 lines must provide starting point of negotiation....
Stavangeravisen: ‘Is it the Jews or the president who controls USA?’
Yesterday Aftenposten published an article under the title “Rich Jews threaten Obama”. Although this title was later altered to something less offensive, it might have sparked of one of today’s letters to Stavangeravisen. The letter above is titled: “Is it the Jews or the president who controls the USA?” Unauthorized translation below. Notice the...
Aftenposten: ‘Rich Jews threaten Obama’
Obama is hugely popular in Norway. So popular in fact that we gave him the Nobel prize before he had the opportunity to deserve it. Now one of our largest newspapers is telling us Obama is being threatened by rich Jews. Note! The title of this article was edited sometime today (Saturday) and changed...
Union website claims post-war Norway governed by Jewish propaganda-experts
Arbeidersamfunnet is the debate forum of FriFagbevegelse. Both Arbeidersamfunnet and FriFagbevegelse are part of union confederation LO. Now Arbeidersamfunnet has published an open letter to PM Stoltenberg written by a former MFA employee, who claims that during the first eight months after liberation in 1945, Norway was governed by a comittee of Jews. Read...
Anti-Semite website of the day
Nyhetsspeilet, the anti-Semite website of the day, believes that the Illuminati and the Jews are to to blame for the war in the Libya. Nyhetsspeilet is the no.1 conspiracist site in Norway, and would be be an online comedy show if it were not for the fact that it attracts an unsettling high number...
Unni Lindell on anti-Semitism: ‘Israel is Jews’ worst enemy! It’s true!’
Jostein Gaarder has for some strange reason stood up to defend his ludicrous op-ed of 2006, a spectacular cocktail offering not only ridicule and chastisement of Israel but also outright expressions of anti-Semitism. Gaarder’s colleague Unni Lindell has expressed support for Gaarder, initially claiming that the state of Israel constitutes the Jews’ “worst enemy”...
NTNU rector Digernes and the Israel-lobby: Damed if you do, damned if you don’t
In 2009 there a massive, well coordinated and highly organized “boycott Israel” action at the prestigious university of NTNU. Today NTNU rector Digernes tells Aftenposten he learned much from watching “the lobby” in action. There are two aspects of Digernes’ reaction which are highly illustrating: 1) As Professor McGonagall points out below rector Digernes...
Håkon Gullvåg displays new piece
Study the the works of Håkon Gullvåg. Compare them to classic pieces of propaganda (Der Jude at the bottom of the page). Observe that both were endorsed and financed by state, the German NSDAP and the Norwegian red-green coalition government of today respectively. Do you think supporting such propagandistic art is the right way...
Surveillance-spin balloons
“Israel is conducting surveillance against us”. It started with a unfounded allegation, found support in an anonymous source in Sweden and gathered speed with a hypothetical statement from a NUPI researcher. Now radio station P4 reports that leader of the Conservatives (Høyre) Erna Solberg is calling for counter-surveillance measures to be taken against foreign...
Unknown source tells Aftonbladet, Dagbladet: ‘Israel watches the Swedes – bribes police with liquor’
Today Dagbladet publishes the story “Israel watches the Swedes“, which refers to Swedish Aftonbladet. The source? An anonymous voice claiming that the Swedish police, in return for their assistance, receives “hundreds of bottles” of alcohol. On November 5th, leader of Labor Youth (AUF) Eskil Pedersen calmly assumed that Israel might very well be carrying...
LMD claims Israel ‘spies out European telecommunications’
Not only does Israel control US politics, wield mighty “miracle socks”, pester the Palestinians with savage “Homo-imperalism”, and fail to control its cyanide selling chemists (Read). The Norwegian edition of Le Monde Diplomatique now informs us that Israel is “spying out Europe’s telecommunications”. The Norwegian monthly Le Monde Diplomatique markets itself as an “international...