Norway, Israel and the Jews
The screenshot above is from Aftenposten. Excerpt: “LO has an open door into the government offices. In next year’s budget Roar Flåthen has rearranged billions. Financial support to the red-green parties has also increased sharply”. LO is tightly locked in with Labor. Both organizations are mainstays in the pro-Palestinian / anti-Israel lobby, and in...
We have already informed you of how our very local brand of red necks shut down a shopping center in Oslo in order to protest sale of Israeli products. According to Red Youth leader Iver Aastebøl, Norwegian consumers should not be allowed even the choice to buy Israeli products, just because he has decided...
That the Church of Norway still has to own up to some pretty horrific views on Jews and Israel is already old news. We have previously written about how bishops minister to congregants on how the Jews no longer have a claim to the land of Israel, this on the heels of other howler,...
Today 100 youths, associated with various left-of-centre groups, directed a boycott action at two Israeli girls who were selling cosmetics in a shopping mall in the the centre of Oslo. The demonstrating youths were attending an anti-globalization seminar co-financed by among other the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and Fritt Ord. The latter...
The Norwegian Church Aid organized a field trip to Hebron with special invitees: Hadja Tajik, Labor who leg humped unwritten parliamentary rules to not use the Rostrum of the Parliament for cheap populism and sported a kaffiyeh in support of Mavi Marmari Islamic tugs, and is star member of the Friends of Palestine faction...
LO’s deputy leader Ms. Gerd Kristiansen has been to Palestine and met with Salam Fayyad, with whom she is appropriately impressed. LO notes: “It is impressive to debate with Salam Fayyad, who meets all difficulties with concrete measures” says Kristiansen. Kristiansen also states: “Meetings with Palestinian politicians has surprised me positively, but at the...
The Rev. Harald Nordhaug, the bishop of Bjørgvin offers new exegetic insights and refers to Palestinian political priest Naim Ateek with whom he cosponsored an event in Bergen this week. According to the Reverend Bishop, the Bible (as in the New Testament) does not hold any particular promise to the Jews regarding the Land,...
La Cruz Roja de Noruega nunca ha visitado el rehén de Hamas, Gilad Shalit, quien esta pudriéndose en una celda subterránea en la franja de Gaza. Lo mas cerca que estuvieron fue en marzo, cuando el secretario general Bernt C. Apeland, llamo a la investigación de supuestos crímenes de guerra por parte de judíos...
The Norwegian Red Cross has never managed to visit Hamas’ hostage Gilad Shalit, who is rotting in a underground cell somewhere in Gaza. The closest the Red Cross has come was in March, when their general secretary Bernt G. Apeland called for Norwegian Jews to be investigated for war-crimes. Some of them, the Red...
On July 30th a prominent researcher at Fafo, a left-wing thing tank, stated that Gaza was a “concentration camp”. On June 3rd two other Fafo researchers stated that Israel’s enforcement of the blockade of Hamas-run Gaza was virtually a “declaration of war” on a NATO country. Now another Fafo researcher writes an op-ed in...
And so once again it is time, this time at the University of Oslo, to debate whether or not to boycott Israel. The fact that Israel is mainly populated by the only people Norwegians have helped try annihilate is generally not seen as relevant. So again it is time. In fact it is always...
In medieval times, society heartlessly rid itself of the mad and the sad by paying mariners to take them away. In today’s Europe the inmates are running the asylums, and the asylums are crusading against Israel. The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby, which our media corps does not acknowledge the existence of, is preparing to equip a...
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Commentary by M, an NIJ street irregular According to Vart Land, the Christian Democratic party protests a decision by Norwegian Port Workers Union with support from the Transport Workers Union to refuse to service Israeli ships, or ships carrying Israeli produce, docking at Norwegian state-owned ports during the last 2 weeks of June. Terje...
The Christian Democrats will usually counteract the lobby to the best of its gentlemanly ability. Vårt Land reports that the dear souls now are standing up to the lobby’s planned dockers’ boycott in June. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
Turkey and Norway are both NATO members. Now two Fafo researchers claim that Israel’s boarding of the FGM flotilla may be seen as the equivalent of a declaration of war on Turkey. The consequences of this claim, if it should be taken seriously, is chilling. Fafo is a Norwegian think tank originally developed by...
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NIJ sent this letter to Bernt G.Apeland on Saturday, March 27th. We are eagerly looking forward to receiving his reply. No reply received as of July 2010. Dear Bernt G. Apeland I refer to NRK’s website, as of March 15th, where you call for an investigation of Norwegian citizens who have served in the...
Almost every week it seems, some prominent Norwegian steps up and demands that some sort of action be taken against the state of Israel. Last week it was the Bishops’ Boycott, which fortunately was called of. Now it’s the Red Cross. Unauthorized translation from Dagenmagazinet: Wants Norwegian Jews scrutinized for war-crimes New information show...
The Norwegian trade journal “Ledelse og teknikk” (Leadership and technicalities) in supposed to cover just that, but often manages to slip in something on Palestine. In this years’ Christmas special there is a short article on the Israeli security fence (see above). The article covers a cooperation project involving a Norwegian union (Sosiale institusjoners...