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Verdens Gang (VG) – Norway's largest daily
Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest daily. In today’s editorial the newspaper claims that the Bishops Boycott is, pretty much, a walk down nonsense street. Unauthorized translation:
We believe that the Bishops ought to bury the though of a boycott of trade as soon as possible. They receive the [...]
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 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 biased [...]
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 [...]
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 contemporary [...]
Sandefjords Blad informs us that the memoirs of Amos Oz are to be published in Arabic. While reading the little notice it struck me how horrible seldom one in the Norwegian press reads “feelgood” news like this about Israel. An article about an author being translated into a foreign tongue! This suggests that Israel is [...]
Aftenposten’s Jørgen Lohne today writes an interesting piece on how Israel’s enemies are, at least in part, motivated by racist hatred. This is not something which the Norwegian media often reports on.
Lohne’s article tells of how conspiracy theories concerning 9/11 and the like fester and about how Europe exported anti-Semitism to the Middle East and [...]
Aftenposten today publishes a story on anti-Semitism in Malmö. On the one hand this is good: Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers and the situation in Malmö has up to now received little – if any – attention from the Norwegian media. On the other hand this is old news – why are Norwegian [...]
Aftenposten: Politiken apologizes for Muhammed cartoon
Aftenposten today reports on how Danish newspaper Politiken has settled with muslim groups who were upset by Politiken’s re-publishing of the Muhammed cartoon in 2008. While Politiken does not apologize for having published the cartoon, nor promises to refrain from doing so again, the newspaper does apologize to “everyone [...]
The Norwegian media is keen on reporting about events in Israel. Right now the most recent stories are, according to Webavisen (an indexing service): 1) Here is Israel’s new super-weapon, on a new Israeli drone 2) Important to react against violence in Gaza, a reader’s comment on Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo”, [...]
Aftenposten’s Knut Olav Åmås has a full-page comment on Eirik Eiglad’s book “The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo” today. On the one hand, that’s good. Aftenposten is Norway’s second largest newspaper and Mr.Åmås is a savvy somebody. On the other hand, Eiglad’s book has already been covered in Spanish Midtskogen, French Philosemitism and JUIF.org, [...]
Mads Gilbert, Pål Steigan. From Klassekampen archives
NRK (State broadcasting) reports that the Press Photographers club has awarded NORWAC doctors Erik Fosse og Mads Gilbert the “Good boy” prize for what a NRK television anchor has called “Israel’s war against the Palestinian people” – Operation Cast Lead. The “good boy” prize is awarded annually to [...]
The Norwegian media insists on not covering the anti-Semitic incidents in Malmö. They do however mention the city in other contexts. The latest mentions of Malmö in Norway are: 1) Malmö aviation wins Grand Travel Award for tenth time 2) Swedish contract to Goodtech and 3) Man killed in Malmö center. None of these even [...]
Skånskan, a regional Swedish newspaper
The screenshot above is from Skånskan, a Swedish newspaper, and lists the articles that newspaper has published on anti-Semitism in Malmö. There is quite a few of them. Blogger Ilya Meyer lists foreign media which are covering the situation; The Local, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, 5T Jewish Times , CFCA, WJC, [...]
Norway’s government insists anti-Semitism is a fringe activity in the Palestinian Territories, to which Norway is a leading donor. Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street – tells us of the Holocaust, but not of anti-Semitism in contemporary Malmö, right across the border. They tell us of deputy Minister of Development Ingrid Fiskaa, but make light of [...]
Talkbacks from Dagsavisen, February 2nd 2010
The screen-shot above is from the foreign affairs section of moribund Dagsavisen, a left-wing newspaper. Each post in the screen-shot shows the title and a introductory lines of an article. The number next to the icon at the bottom of each post shows the number of talkbacks the article [...]
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