What a glaring contrast. A professor at the University of Bergen as well the University College of Oslo (yes, that is the institution that hires bomb-master Gule), Elisabeth Eide, claims that Muslims are the new Jews, citing Sartre’s essay ” Reflections on the Jewish question”. On her homepage, she provides a greatly embellished version...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- The Norwegian Government’s hypocrisy re-exposed: “the most evil company in the world” is the second largest share holder in “Norsk Hydro”The Norwegian Government’s hypocrisy re-exposed: “the most evil company in the world” is the second largest share holder in “Norsk Hydro” Brazilian Vale, which Norwegian Hydro has a tight partnership with, only accepts the bare minimum of social responsibility, according to a new poll where Greenpeace ranked the Norwegian Hydro partner as the “the world’s mo […]
- VG’s Hanne Skartveit: the great betrayalLifted from VG. Applause to Skartveit for this eminent oped The great betrayal Synagogue OSLO (AP) We were unable to protect our Jewish compatriots during the war. And today we are unable to give them the security they need. Do we simply not care? OpEd by Hanne Skartveit In the street where I lived for some years, just outside Washington, DC, we had a neighb […]
- One week after PM’s reassurance that nobody should live in fear in Norway – Justice Minister Grete Faremo to reassess Jewish community’s security needsLifted from Dagbladet, but also mentioned in other media. Faremo to reassess Synagogue security needs – Is in constant contact with police and the Police Security Services. The Minister of Justice Grete Faremo (Labour) is reviewing the safety precautions in place for the Synagogue in Oslo, and is in constant contact with the police and the police and the sec […]
- Rockets over Israel go untoldWhile the Norwegian media rightly now focuses on the ongoing atrocities in Syria, and even our FM has felt compelled to politely tell the naughty Assad regime off for the continuing blood bath, one may perhaps be sympathetic to editors’s decision to not cover news from Israel. However, since coverage of Israel continues to be tendentious and one-eyed, one mu […]
- Norwegian support for Israel at record highLifted from Vårt Land Record Norwegian support to Israel More Norwegians buy Israeli goods, provide financial support and join the pro-Israel organizations. By: Lise Marit Kalstad and Olav Solvang Norway set a new record in the import of goods from Israel in 2011. In the last year Norway purchased Israeli goods for NOK 722 million, the corresponding number f […]
- Norwegian People’s Aid failure to report on SyriaAt a time when the rest of the world are slowly, ever so gradually starting to notice the atrocities that go on in Syria (but also many other places on our beautiful planet), one would have thought that the Norwegian People’s Aid would at least have mentioned the word Syria, somewhere, anywhere, on its web pages. But nope, not a word, yet NRK, who cannot fin […]
- The PMs Holocaust Memorial Day speech in full“Dear all, This year marks 70 years since the “Danube” cast off from this quay, and embarked on a voyage of shame . 532 Jews were brutally stowed on board. Only nine returned. One of them was Samuel Steinmann. He is the last survivor. I’m especially glad you are here with us. Today we remember the millions of innocent people who were wiped out in History’s m […]
- Our deepest regret this could happen on Norwegian soilFinally, the first real step towards acknowledging our own role in the tragedy. Only after accepting responsibility, can the hard work of forgiveness and the arduous task of reconstructing relations begin. Lifted from Aftenposten (by Elisabeth Rodum and Halvor Hegtun) PM Jens Stoltenberg (Labour) deeply regretted the deportation of Norwegian Jews at the Holo […]
- Holocaust commemoration ceremony today at 1500 hrs in OsloLifted from Dagen.no, but also covered most other news outlets. For more details on the event itself, you can go to http://www.holocaustdagen.no/ Thinks Jens will apologize to the Jews Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is expected to come up with a form of apology to the Norwegian Jews during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day today. Bjørn Arild Hatle […]
- Mixed signals from Norway as Holocaust commemoration ceremony is expected to bring a much awaited formal apology from Norway to its Jewish communityToday, at 3 PM, our PM Jens Stoltenberg is widely expected to officially and formally apologize to the Norwegian Jewish community for the state sponsored persecution and murder of Norwegian citizens with a Jewish background during the WWII. Whatever form that eventual apology finally would be presented as, does not detract from the perception that Norway con […]
“Muslims are the jews of today”
Was Erna Solberg misquoted by VG?
Verdens Gang claims Erna Solberg compares contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment to anti-Semitism during the thirties. Erna Solberg herself denies having made any such comparison. McGonagall of Israelwhat comments on the issue. Erna Solberg believes McGonagall is confused. Who isn’t? On August 4th, Verdens Gang published an interview with Erna Solberg under the title “Erna Solberg...
Hunting for votes
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...
The leader of Oslo Jewish community on Erna Solberg’s ‘Muslims are treated like 1930′s Jews’
Erwin Kohn, the leader of the Jewish congregation in Oslo was interviewed by Dagsavisen on August 5: – A comparison lacking in historical understanding The leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo thinks the real intention behind conservative leader Erna Solberg is to attract attention with her initiative to compare agitation against Muslims with...
NRK debate in installments: The reactions to Erna Solberg’s claim that Muslims are treated like the Jews in the 1930s
Transcription of a debate in Dagsnytt 18 NRK on 2008 08 04. I have modified some oral ways of expression, which in an written English language context may seem odd. I have denoted said modifications thus Participants: Erna Solberg (chairwoman, conservative party), Mona Levin, Trine Skei Grande (chairwoman, Liberal party), Jorunn Seim Fure...
Erna Solberg says Muslims are treated like the Jews in the 1930s
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...
Holocaust center boss: More anti-semitism in Norway than expected
How the mighty fall! Several months back, the leader of the Holocaust center had nothing but scorn, perhaps even outright animosity to Gerstenfelds claim that anti-semitism is a great and growing problem in Norway. Back then he said: One reason to carry out such a survey, is also the offensive which has been waged...
Gaza-Chaudry calls Progress Party racist – calls Muslims “Jews”
As our unelected Parliamentary Vice president Akhtar Chaudry (Socialist Left) prepares his bags to travel to the opening of the new swish shopping mall in Gaza (there cannot possibly be any other reason to go, the Red Cross has cancelled the so-called humanitarian crisis), he does take some time out to talk nonsense in public....
Everyone is ‘the Jews’, the Jews themselves are ‘Kazars’
The persecution of the Roma is a serious matter which Europe must attend to, but does it really resemble anything even in the ballpark area of how Europe has persecuted the Jews? The Nettavisen article above, by Thomas Rud, is titled “May become modern society’s persecution of Jews”. This is just another example of...
Trine Skei Grande on acceptable racism
One cannot compare the situation of Muslims in contemporary Norway with that of the Jews during the thirties. It just cannot be done. Unless you don’t know no history, pe’haps caint read too good, dawg. Today in Aftenposten Trine Skei Grande, the leader of the Norwegian Liberal Party (Venstre) writes an Op-ed on Muslims,...
Muslims believe are ‘treated as Jews’, fight for Al-Shabaab
Young Norwegians of Somali descent are increasingly radicalized, sometimes to the extent that they go abroad to fight for Al-Shabaab. In an Aftenposten article a young muslim claims “Muslims are being treated like Jews after WWII – we are attacked”. The young man, one Omar Benkhriss, is of course partly right. Jews were indeed...
Jens Høvsgaard on Denmark: Muslims… like the Jews…
Only if you know no history can you compare the situation of Muslims in contemporary Europe to the situation of Jews in Europe during the thirties. Yet once again, here we go. The screenshot above is from Dagbladet today, with journalist Maria L.Kleve interviewing Danish journalist Jens Høvsgaard, who is writing a crime novel...
“Jews are like nazis”, claims popular academic
Claiming that “the Jews” have become “pretty much like nazis” no longer raises eyebrows. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, and if any Norwegian academic can claim household recognition, it’s him. He writes entertainingly and engagingly on a number of topics, and is a chat show...
Dershowitz gets to talk in Aftenposten – now read the reply from Andresen
Andresen is that very unpleasant fellow we wrote about last week, when we translated verbatim with a copy of his own entry on an internal forum at NTNU Here is his reply to Dershowitz (also only in Norwegian in a paper nobody outside Norway gives a rats behind about): I am not an “antisemite”,...
Making people carry ID is similar to making the Jews carry the star of David
The screenshot above is from a Norwegian site which provides information for Farsi-speakers. The article is on how asylum-seekers and refugees will be required to carry photo-ID on them. The picture is of a Jew wearing the star of David. Seen in isolation, this is a matter of no consequence. It is the pattern...
NRK on self-censorship in the Norwegian media
Violence works, and always has. That’s why it’s still around. The only people to insist that they are immune to the threat of violence are cowards who refuse to face up to themselves. Above: Screenshot from NRK showing three articles on the issue of self-censorship in the wake of the cartoon-wars, which started in...
Alf van der Hagen and the ‘situation of the Jews in the twenties’
In the editorial of this week’s Morgenbladet, editor Alf van der Hagen quotes a philosopher on how the situation for the Gypsies today is not unlike the situation Jews were facing in the 1920-ies. This is wrong on some many levels that it is difficult to know where to begin. What we are seeing...
Ny Tid: ‘Debate on Islam similar to early anti-Semitism’
Magazine Ny Tid now tells us, again, that the Muslims are the “new Jews”. Historians rarely explain one situation by comparing it to another, but prefer to explain and understand each situation in itself. On the other hand we have Norwegian social scientists and mediamen, who seem to understand little except if it is...
Dagbladet writes same old about Gerstenfeld
Dagsavisen has unexpectedly decided to give Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld a “fair go”, asking him relevant questions and presenting his answers in a straightforward and honest interview. Meanwhile Dagbladet sticks to the old, tried and tested method of allowing Gerstenfeld to be criticized by people who obviously have not read his book. Now this...
Gerstenfeld in Olso, launches book on anti-Semitism in Norway
Manfred Gerstenfeld of the JCPA is today holding the press-release for his new book on anti-Semitism in Norway at Litteraturhuset – the House of Litterature – in Oslo. This is a bold move. After Gerstenfeld wrote a book on anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in the Nordic countries he was misquoted and demonized throughout Norway and...