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...
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 […]
Newspeak
Støre: DMT is my alibi (+ a bit of Hilde Henriksen Waage)
Clearly, we have underestimated Støre’s political acumen. In Dagsnytt 18, he (of course) expressed great consternation at reports of antisemitism but (of course) wanted to separate antisemitism and anti-Israeli attitudes. It was for the sake of the Norwegian Jews, he said, that “certain groups” had to stop trying to defend Israel’s “illegal ” occupation...
Støre’s terms of endearment
Morten Høglund in the Progress Party posed a perfectly reasonable question to foreign minister Støre, namely whether the Norwegian government would demand from both the provisional Hamas-Fatah government, and a future Palestinian government, that it comply with the quartet requirement to a) recognize the state of Israel, b) renounce political violence, and c) commit...
Israel MFA on Støre: ‘Misnaming things adds to the misery of the world’
Norway FM Støre acknowledges that Hamas has carried out terrorist actions but refuses to “label” Hams as a terror-organization. Not everybody finds such discrimination wise. Israel’s MFA is not alone in seeing newspeak and doublethink where Norwegian apparatchiks see reason. In a parliament question and answer session on February 9th, Hans Olav Syversen (Christian...
Vilified: telling lies about Israel
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Sweden sees jewbaiting in “larger context”
From the blog Islam in Europe: —–Excerpt begins—– “That is, in spite of the calls for “killing the Jews”, these statements are not a crime in the legal sense in Sweden, because of the current conflict in the Middle East, according to the Chancellor of Justice. The logical conclusion is clear. If one mentions Palestine...
Islamic cleric reinterpreted
On February 16th several major Norwegian newspapers told their readers about how Yusuf al-Qaradawi, to whom many Norwegian moslems look for guidance on religious matters, had stated that the holocaust was a divine punishment and that Adolf Hitler had “put the jews in their place”. Many Norwegians interpreted this to mean that Qaradawi actually...
Iran not a threat
In today’s Aftenposten, Daniel Heradstveit comments on Iran’s development of rocket systems. Heradstveit, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, says the west must not understand Iran’s president literally in his repeated threats to “erase Israel from the map”. The researchers says: “Ahmadinejad has no expectations of removing Israel from the map. What...
Lady of peace
Norway’s leading business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv runs a two-page interview with the new leader for the Committee for Palestine, Mrs.Line Khateeb. The interview is titled “Lady of peace” and is a cordial affair where Mrs. Khateeb expresses concern over the high level of traffic accidents in Israel, which she attributes to the high level...
Hamas – back or forth?
In a letter to Aftenposten today, a reader comments upon the newspaper’s use of statistics: —–Excerpt begins “In an editorial on Febuary 9th, Aftenposten writes that the war in Gaza, according to a recent opinion poll “has radicalized the population of the Westbank and Gaza, and Hamas is receiving increased support”. The newspaper has at...