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by admin • January 12, 2010 • 0 Comments

About a year ago Norwegian journalists were sipping champagne coctails in hotel-bars in Israel while chafing at the bit to let loose with some “legitimate criticism”. Meanwhile people attending a peaceful peace-rally in Oslo were attacked by a mob of…

by admin • January 7, 2010 • 0 Comments

Is it possible for the editor of one of Norway’s largest newspapers to angrily reject foreign criticism one week, only to endorse the very same facts some weeks later, without anybody noticing his inconsistency? The above is an editorial by…

by admin • January 2, 2010 • 0 Comments

Journalist Roger Hercz is to moribund Norwegian daily Dagsavisen what Kadima leader Tzipi Livni said she refused to be for Netanyahu’s government – a fig leaf of decency. In Hercz’s article “the war over the war” the reader is invited…

by admin • January 1, 2010 • 0 Comments

Norway is at war in Afghanistan, although there is a gentleman’s agreement that we should not talk about the nastier aspects of it too much. Here is a report from a firefight on new year’s eve – unauthorized translation from…

by admin • December 27, 2009 • 0 Comments

NRK tells us that Israel started the war on December 27th in 2008 and that this was a war on the ‘population’ of Gaza. NRK’s Sidsel Wold tells us that the problem consists of the Fatah-Hamas split and that the…

by admin • December 26, 2009 • 0 Comments

NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse have written an entire book, “Eyes in Gaza”, richly illustrated with photographs, on how the IDF allegedly “deliberately targeted children” throughout the recent war in Gaza. The book is a best-seller and many…

by admin • December 11, 2009 • 0 Comments

If Israel is really bad then Palestine cannot do well. Now Tom Gross of the Wall Street Journal reports that the West Bank is thriving (during the war in Gaza, there were fewer riots there than in Oslo), in the…

by admin • December 5, 2009 • 0 Comments

Today’s editorial, December 5th, in Norway’s largest daily Verdens Gang (VG), by Hanne Skartveit is about Israel and titled “Besieged by enemies”. Unauthorized translation: Israelis feel threatened on their lives. They do not desire a Palestinian state without leaders they…

by admin • November 30, 2009 • 0 Comments

Are the times a-changing? Dagsavisen’s Roger Hercz today treats us to an editorial on political correctness in Egypt which manages to be both exotic and strangely familiar at the same time. A sample: Every conflict gives rise to stereotypes and…

by admin • November 28, 2009 • 0 Comments

On November 22nd Aftenposten rejected the criticism of the Jerusalem-seminar the week before, claiming that Manfred Gerstenfeld of the Jerusalem Centre of Public Affairs was a blinded, if inexhaustible, extremist. One nice feature of Norwegian newspapers is however that they…

by admin • November 24, 2009 • 0 Comments

Norwegian politicians and newspapers criticize Israel more than any other state on the planet, and seriously expect Israel to take the criticism seriously. Yet when Mr.Gerstenfeld of JCPA directed some highly legitimate criticism at Norway at a seminar in Jerusalem…

by admin • November 18, 2009 • 0 Comments

In the last week of October journalist Kjetil Wiedswang in the prestigious business daily Dagens Næringsliv commented on the strained aspects of Norway-Israeli relations . In doing so he unfortunately relied upon “chinese whispers” about Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, including…

by admin • November 17, 2009 • 0 Comments

A politician in the Progress Party is making headlines after having posted on Facebook, where the man in question has made some very uncouth racist statements regarding Africans. So this is in the press. What never made the press was…

by admin • November 16, 2009 • 0 Comments

Nobody can accuse the Economist of being insufficiently critical of Israel. In this week’s edition, in the article “Don’t give up”, it is claimed that “Mr. Netanyahu’s obduracy on settlements… in the long run threatens Israel’s very existence”. This sort…

by admin • November 13, 2009 • 1 Comment

When Norwegian Dagbladet finally picked up on the Donald Boström blood-libel story, they headed their article “May Israeli soldiers have stolen Palestinian organs?” Press release from ECI: No legal excuse for Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt to refrain from criticizing blood…

by admin • November 12, 2009 • 0 Comments

Dagsavisen, the sick man of Akersgata, shows its colors on the day of the fight. In the commentary “Checkpoint Boycott” ,penned by Halvor Finess Tretvoll, Dagsavisen manages to slam the boycott proposal while staying true to form… in a for…

by admin • November 8, 2009 • 0 Comments

Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest daily and its page two editorials are said to be the most important in the nation. Yesterday, Saturday November 7th, VG’s political editor Hanne Skartveit calls the boycott proposal at NTNU an “academic scandal”.…

by admin • November 5, 2009 • 4 Comments

(Originally published on October 27th – republished on request on November 5th) Mr.Kjetil Wiedswang is no fool. A prominent and respected Norwegian journalist in the employ of Dagens Næringsliv, a well-reputed business daily, he can often seize the attention of…

by admin • November 5, 2009 • 0 Comments

Despite this unfortunate affair, DN remains one of Norway’s finest newspapers and Mr.Wiedswang one of our sharpest journalists. The only mistake Mr.Wiedswang made was to believe the information provided to him by his colleagues. In the climate offered by the…

by admin • November 3, 2009 • 0 Comments

Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street – appears to be disappointed over President Obama. The cartoon above is from Verdens Gang, Norway’s largest daily, but it is hardly original. What we see is a boisterous star of David threatening to buck…

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