For many of the smaller newspapers in Norway, the copy and paste exercise from major news agencies saves their day and ensure that they have something - apparently anything – to offer in print to readers. Sadly, this procedure also…
error and omission
Not in Norwegian news: Palestinian inmate was not tortured to death after all
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
NRK was very quick in bringing the false news that the Palestinian prisoner who passed away in an Israeli prison might have been tortured to death. Now that Israeli pathologists have concluded that there are no signs of violence/torture, they…
NRK – celebrating 20 years of failed peace making – demands special labeling of Israeli goods
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
what else can we call this than NRKs desperate dry humping of a nearly vaporized corpse; the Oslo agreement. They have brought out all their big guns to take a potshot at Israel, not being too precise in their presentation…
NRK – a bastion of misinformation
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
Once more, tempers have been brought to a boil on the West Bank, this time the flames of hatred are being stoked by the PA and their buddies who – incapable of facing the consequences of their own corruption, nepotism…
Gaza flare-up as reflected in Norway
by McGonagall • • 17 Comments
In Aftenposten today the recently appointed Norwegian Foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, was interviewed after the killing of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas movement’s Military wing who was hit in his car by an Israeli missile. There is…
Aftenposten says Israel killed Salafist leader in attack on Gaza – omits mentioning the
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
Aftenposten sure has an interesting way of reporting on Israel. No word what so ever on the rocket rain that fell over southern Israel last weekend, during the last days of the High Holidays (even anti-Israel news outfit Reuters managed to…
A bunch of hypocrites on their way to show ‘solidarity’ with Gaza; Aftenposten cannot get its facts straight on the Mavi Marmara
by McGonagall • • 19 Comments
lifted from Aftenposten.no (note to Aftenposten journalist twat, the UNHRC was put in their place by the UNs Secretary-General’s Panel of Enquiry, who clearly stated that not only is Israel legally entitled to imposing a blockade of Gaza, but they…
The Fawlty Tower hotel saga
by McGonagall • • 2 Comments
OK, summer is over and focus back on Israel, this time for having had the audacity to expropriate a hotel which was situated exactly in the middle of security trail between Jerusalem and the West Bank. The hotel was expropriated…
Note to Dagsavisens summer sports “journalist”; it is never a good idea to copy and paste from Wikipedia.
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
This gem was published in Dagsavisens sports section, and reveals the staggering ignorance sports journalists who want to write a killer story (and in any case, it would make Dagsavisen look less like a Islamic Jihad mouthpiece if they restrained…
NTB’s incomplete version of history
by Kafka • • 3 Comments
Reporting that some schools on the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip will be offering Hebrew lessons, fake news organization NTB highlights the Israeli “blockade” of Gaza. It may be worth comparing the NTB article with this one from the New York Times,…
NY Times: Jews discussed the Internet’s dangers, NRK: Jews protested against the internet
by McGonagall • • 7 Comments
Lifted from miff.no NY Times: Jews discussed the dangers of internet, NRK: Jews protested against the internet. – 40,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered “to demonstrate – against the internet,” the NRK writes. But the source for this is an article in the…
NTB invents news – there was no official Norwegian warning against Norwegian oil sector involvement in Israel
by McGonagall • • 11 Comments
Lifted from miff.no Background story: The NTB published an article regarding increased Norwegian investment in Israel offshore sector, claiming that the Norwegian Foreign Ministry had warned against such involvement in Israel. This NTB article was in turn picked up by…
Giulio Meotti: Jews unwelcome on campus
by McGonagall • • 3 Comments
lifted from Ynetnews.com In case somebody thinks is an alarmist view, let us just remind ourselves that it is just over a year ago that Alan Dershowitz was denied access to Norwegian universities (or, if somebody takes offense at this…
VG: reports on upcoming meeting between Israel, PA; reports on alleged house demolition in West Bank but forgets to mention Palestinian football goalie shooting spree with mates from Red Crescent
by McGonagall • • 0 Comments
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to meet this week Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet over the next few days and hold the first official meeting in over two months, according to a Palestinian official. - There are currently ongoing preparations with the Israelis to hold a meeting between Saeb Erakat and Yitzhak Molcho over…
Toulouse fallout – Palestinian damage control: PA PM Fayyad – keep the Palestinian cause separate
by McGonagall • • 7 Comments
In the fallout after the horrific Toulouse killings, the PA is busy doing some damage control in Norwegian media. NRK.no has published a story where PA PM Fayyad claims to utterly condemn the murders of French Jewish kids, whilst urging…
An (un)popular story not told in Norway
by McGonagall • • 9 Comments
Norwegian NGO’s and media prefer to cast Israel as the meanie, and the Palestinians as the hapless and helpless, in particular when it comes to health care and emergency care. Lifted from Miff.no 115,000 sick Palestinians treated in Israel The cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians is growing in…
More media lies
by McGonagall • • 6 Comments
Lifted from miff.no, where they have several stories to show how the Norwegian news agencies deliberately cherry pick their stories and “angles”. 8-year-old boy in Gaza was not killed in air strikes, but hit by ‘Palestinian’ bullet shot during funeral…
NTB thinks truth is optional
by McGonagall • • 11 Comments
Lifted from miff.no (they have had a few stories on this topic) How to draw new lines in a drawing that presents Israel as a child killer. Monday morning a 15-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by an explosion in the north…
In Syria, deaths are apparent; in Gaza they are unquestioned truths
by McGonagall • • 16 Comments
Don’t get me wrong, casualties of war is always a tragedy, regardless of where you stand in a conflict, the loss of life is sad, utterly destructive. Yet, when somebody points a gun (rockets, threats of genocide, etc) at me…
Norwegian media: Israel attacked Gaza, killed Palestinians, no mention of safety instructions in place for hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians
by McGonagall • • 16 Comments
Norwegian media has mentioned the flare up of violence in Southern Israel after Gaza terrorists have launched more than 100 rockets over densely populated civilian areas. NRK for instance calls it the bloodiest day in three years and offers details…