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  • No Press Accreditation for PR-woman Yngvild Mortensen
    Qassam rockets: from Ynet news Dagbladet reports on how freelancing journalist Yngvild Mortensen has her knickers in a twist as Israel refuses to grant her press accreditation. The reason for Ms.Mortensen is not getting one is because she is a freelancer, and not in steady employ. When one looks back upon the long series of [...] […]
  • Is Dagbladet confusing Gaza with the Westbank?
    Dagbladet attributes this picture to Gaza, by Reuters, Elilana Aponte and Scanpix. The picture above is from an article in Dabladet titled “New peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians“. The first half hour the picture did not have any explaining subtext, which easily might have lead readers to believe the picture shows an Israeli kicking [...] […]
  • FM Støre, Dr Mads, Syversen on the Bishops’ Boycott
    Norwegian Bishops have come up with the idea that boycotting Israel just might be a fine idea. Foreign Minister Jonas Ghar Støre is opposed to a boycott and says so in today’s Verdens Gang – Norway’s largest daily. Unauthorized translation: – It is good that the Church speaks out for the opprssed, but the Church’s main [...] […]
  • Editor slams Bishops’ Boycott
    DagenMagazinet For Vebjørn Selbekk “freedom of expression” is more than just words, as is “courage”. After publishing an article on the cartoon-war in 2006, he became embroiled in it himself, receiving only luke-warm support from the Norwegian intelligensia and political establishment as he stood up for his editorial right to publish news-stories on relevant […]
  • Johan Galtung finds Gaza ‘a replay of the Warsaw ghetto’
    The Russel Tribunal for Palestine is supported by among other Ilan Pappe, Ken Loach and John Pilger. There is also a Norwegian onboard, Mr. Johan Galtung – above behind the rostrum at what appears to be a Turkish university. Below you see a section from a transcript from his lecture, where Mr.Galtung identifies Israel’s policies [...] […]
  • France horrified by Silfur Egills
    Iceland - a great little island society Iceland is a great little island mainly populated by decent and hardworking people. It is also home to a talk-show host who is “horrified” by Israel, refuses to elaborate on why, and calls NIJ an “idiot-site” for asking. Meanwhile the French are watching, wondering what on earth [...] […]
  • Aftenposten centrefold on anti-Semitism in Malmö
    Aftenposten: Norway's second largest newspaper Aftenposten today covers anti-Semitism in Malmö in Sweden with the article “Jew-hatered has reappaered in Malmö“. The article tells of how; a) a Holocaust survivor has been called a lier by Malmö-schoolchildren b) the mayor Ilmar Reepalu has denied that Jews have been attacked, that it is no business of [.. […]
  • Bishops bellow ‘boycott’
    Bishop Solveig Fiske finds it "natural" to contemplate a boycott of Israel Here we go again. Virtually every week, some Norwegian will demand that action be taken against Israel. Not against Saudi Arabia, no. Not against Egypt or Syria or Bahrain, no. Iran, sometimes. Israel, always. Politicians, newspapermen and activists… the number of people hor […]
  • Communication break-down:Icelandic talk-show host ‘horrified’ by Israel
    Egill Helgason is the best paid talk-show host on Iceland. He runs a literary program as well as a weekly program on the State Television RUV called Silfur Egils (The silver of Egils), to which all major Icelandic players aspire to be invited, even though an Icelandic source informs us that many Icelanders [...] […]
  • Oslo: Støre to meet Syria FM on Monday 8th
    The screen-shot above is from the MFA website and announces – in Norwegian only – that Norway FM Jonas Gahr Støre is to meet with Syria FM Walid Muallem, in Oslo on Monday 8th. It also says: “The purpose of the meeting is to exchange viewpoints on the political situation in the Middle [...] […]

Dagsavisen: Gilbert compares Israel to Nazis - again

From Gilbert and Fosse's book "Eyes in Gaza": Mads Gilbert honestly believes this is how Jewish doctors had breakfast in the Warsaw ghetto during WWII

While we are witnessing what appears to be a return to solid reporting in both Aftenposten and Verdens Gang, moribund Dagsavisen is still sniping away. Today, an interview with NORWAC [...]

December 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: "Muslims are the jews of today", Anti-Israeli sentiment in Norway | Leave a comment

Irshad Manji debates Tariq Ramadan

By Hans Rustad at Document.no, one of the nation’s finest websites. 

Irshad Manji debated Tariq Ramadan for the first time in Oslo on Friday. It turned into a very interesting exchange. Ramadan was from the start exasperated with Manji. And when she asked him what on earth was wrong, he blurted out: Woman!

Freedom of expression and [...]

June 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: "Muslims are the jews of today" | Leave a comment

“The moslems are the jews of today”

- Muslims are the jews of today, stigmatized, generalized and presented as a threat to society, says a spokesman for Arbeiderpartiet (Labor) on March 26th.

It is not uncommon to find different aspects of xenophobia and persecution examined through the Holocaustic lens. If so-and-so is being persecuted, this line of reasoning goes, then so-and-so is the [...]

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: "Muslims are the jews of today" | 4 comments

Klassekampen: Yehuda Bauer and intellectual anti-Semites

Unauthorized translation from Klassekampen, by journalists Christiane Jordheim Larsen (text) and Greg Rødland Buick (photo).

Intellectual anti-semites

According to professor Yehuda Bauer the contemporary debate on anti-Semitism has led to a resurgence of the perception of jews as a homogenous group.

Saturday 26. august, 2006

Yehuda Bauer has arrived from Jerusalem to Oslo in order to participate in the [...]

August 26th, 2006 | Tags: , , , , | Category: "Muslims are the jews of today", Anti-Israeli sentiment in Norway, Holocaust distortion, anti-semitism, boycott | Leave a comment