• 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 […]

Grand competition for all NIJ street irregulars

Photo from Spain, Israel and the Jews

What sort of NIJ boy or girl are you? Are you the sort of NIJ kid who likes a challenge? If you are one of the NIJ strett irregulars, you can’t turn down a challenge for the life of you. Now take a look at the picture above. [...]

AJP Taylor describes Norwegian arrogance, appeasement

Alan John Percival Taylor, picture from American Historical Association

When it comes to subservience to dogma, Norwegian commissars are second to none. They are, in fact, unbeatable. Just the other week Nils Butenschøn, a former Palkom leader who rose to leadership with the vision of winning entire “organizations and parties for Palestine” hijacked a meeting [...]

Does the robojournalist have a future in the Norwegian press corps?

Aftenposten:

The screenshot above is from the Aftenposten article This robot can replace the journalist. This is a highly dubious claim. Sure enough, according to the article this robot can take pictures, minutes and ask questions. But can it systematically indulge in the sort of pro-Palestinian bias which several surveys (Observer 2002, Observer 2004, [...]

Someone in Iceland writes something about Jews

Iceland is well known for its hot springs

Iceland is popularly though to be populated by the descendants of Norwegians who refused to accept the teachings of Jesus Christ, son of God, opting out for the traditional ways and the ancient gods of Odin, Tyra and Tyr, etc. Actually though, the history of the island [...]

Israeli PM share experiences

The clip above is from Hildegunn‘s. The blog is in Norwegian but drop by for the clips. You do need a laugh from time to time.

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Hero of Shamir's ´Defamation´:

Many people hold no quarrel with Jews as a people, but reserve the right to be extraordinarily upset over Israel politics. People who truly have no issue with the Jews are as angry with Israel’s neighbors as they are with Israel itself.

In terms of psychological economy therefore, you are better of being an [...]

A Palestine-quiz for Jonas Gahr Støre

Mr.Støre – Picture from Norway MFA

During the debate on immigration in 2009 Dagbladet fronted Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s “immigrant quiz”, and some said that if you did not score more than six (out of ten) right, then your knowledge about matters of immigration was too low for you to speak your mind about immigration.

Among those [...]

Code cracked - spies listening everywhere

Loose lips sink ships

Until quite recently the more ludicrous aspects of the Norwegian debate on the Middle East were a closely kept national secret, shared only by the select few who mastered Norsk, a code originally developed by the Bavarian Illuminati. Now it appears that the code has been broken and that code-cracking foreigners [...]

Breakfast at Hildegunn’s

Wherever you go in life, most of the time it’s the same old, same old. Just look at the Norwegian media coverage of Israel, for instance.

We found this clip at Hildegunn‘s, who tells us it’s an Israeli favorite. Innovative and sweet, eh? Pop over to Hildegunn’s for a look and a read (if you know [...]

SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST SCANDOS! ISRAELIS POKE FUN!

From Ilya Meyer (in the context of a serious post on accusations of Israeli organ-smuggling) by way of the Tundra Tabloids: It turns out that Norwegian ME expert Hilde Henriksen Waage was right when she claimed that the far-right-wing in Israel is conducting a smear campaign against Norway. Actually, they are smearing Sweden too, even sinking [...]

Solidarity group berates Israel for use of map- then follows same practice itself

Sure, politics is about winning hearts and minds, but some minds you’re just seriously better of without. See this post on the same issue.

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The propaganda machine

Hilde Henriksen Waage is not the only Norwegian academic who believes in the power of the pro-Israel propaganda machine. In today’s Adresseavisa, a daily focusing on the Trondheim area, Professor Morten Levin writes:

The attacks against Rita Ottervik and Håkon Gullvåg are not unique. Such attacks are part of the daily amount of propaganda issued by [...]

Drowning rats, the hearts of men and BOLD goals

Greg Kolodziejzyk does it again!

A friend of mine needs is interested in the Middle East and I’m trying to convince him to read Benny Morris, but he won’t. Benny Morris does not make for easy reading unless you are a trained historian and my friend has neither the aptitude nor the time, so instead [...]