• Malmö: Ever since I came here people have been shouting ‘fucking Jew’ at me
    Anyone concerned for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Scandinavia who is not reading Sweden, Israel and the Jews is robbing themselves blind. If you follow Sweden, this is the place to go. Ilya Meyer has a larger archive. On the other hand Norwegian newspapers, with exception being made for Aftenposten, are not particularly interested in [...] […]
  • ‘Jews themselves wrote lists of whom were to die in concentration camps’
    The University of Oslo wants to fire a history professor – appearently for having violated its health, environment and safety (HES) code. Protesters say this has nothing to do with HES and everything to do with the Univeristy curtailing the freedom of expression of its staff. One of the protestors is Professor of Law Jan [...] […]
  • Norwegian funnymen fearful of insulting Muhammed
    Norwegian comedian Thomas Seltzer. Picture from NRK P3. In 2006 funnyman Otto Jespersen demonstrated his courageous wit by torching the Bible. When asked why he did not burn the Koran, he replied: “We considered that too, but could not get hold of a copy. What is more I am 52 years old now and reckon [...] […]
  • Støre and Syria, Bishops’ Boycott
    FM Jonas Gahr Støre met with Syria’s FM Muallem on Monday8th. Nothing much in the media about that, not at all. Syria hardly registers at all. In the clip above you see a program from Syrian television. Does not this look like the kind of society Norwegians ought to be worried over? Remember [...] […]
  • VG on Bishops’ Boycott
    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 [...] […]
  • No Press Accreditation for PR-woman Yngvild Mortensen
    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 [...] […]
  • Is Dagbladet confusing Gaza with the Westbank?
    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 [...] […]
  • FM Støre, Dr Mads, Syversen on the Bishops’ Boycott
    Norwegian Bishops have come up with the idea that boycotting Israel just might be a fine idea. Foreign Minister Jonas Ghar Støre is opposed to a boycott and says so in today’s Verdens Gang – Norway’s largest daily. Unauthorized translation: – It is good that the Church speaks out for the opprssed, but the Church’s main [...] […]
  • Editor slams Bishops’ Boycott
    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 […]
  • Johan Galtung finds Gaza ‘a replay of the Warsaw ghetto’
    The Russel Tribunal for Palestine is supported by among other Ilan Pappe, Ken Loach and John Pilger. There is also a Norwegian onboard, Mr. Johan Galtung – above behind the rostrum at what appears to be a Turkish university. Below you see a section from a transcript from his lecture, where Mr.Galtung identifies Israel’s policies [...] […]

“Eyes in Gaza” – the politics of emotion

Doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse worked in Shifa hospital during the Gaza war, and also doubled as news reporters. After the war they proceeded to publish the best-selling book “Eyes of Gaza”, now in its fourth edition, in what with certainty must be deemed the most spectacular public relations endeavour to be [...]

…same as any other nation?

A corporate flowchart of Norwegian development aid. From Norsk Utviklingshjelps historie, by Kjerland et al.

The flowchart above is from Norges Bistandhistorie (A history of Norwegian development aid) by Kjerland, Liland, Ruud and Simonsen. The flowchart illustrates the Norwegian development aid sector as it was understood by the company Statskonsult in 1997. Why is only [...]

DT reports: Labour strengthens grip on aid budget

From: Development Today

If you want to understand Norwegian foreign policy, Development Today is an absolute must. The journal asks some of the right questions and picks up on issues that Akersgata is unable to attend to. In No.16/2009 (above) DT observes that Labour is assuming control of a larger proportion of the development aid [...]

DT: “Norway bypasses Sweden as largest Nordic donor”

Money is power. Norway has more of it than you would estimate from the size of our population (approx.4,6 million). Now investing money wisely, as Mr.Murdoch will tell you, is no easy task. How to make sure the money is invested for good, rather than evil?

Excerpt from Development Today:

Three Nordic governments dominate the top spots [...]

Al Aqsa TV tells kids “Slaughter the jews”

Norway supports the Palestinian people (pr.capita) more than any other people on earth. Yet this support appears to be completely unrelated to the actual behavior of the regimes of Hamas and Fatah. Blatant racism and incitement to murder goes virtually unnoticed by the red-green coalition government, although it has been questioned by the opposition (Progress [...]

Christian Democrats: “Horrible of Hamas to deny the Holocaust”

The red-green government has been a staunch supporter of the PA, Hamas and the UNRWA. Yet when it is revealed that Hamas rejects tuition on the Holocaust in Gaza-schools, the red-green government is silent. Perhaps Norwegians should take the criticism from Sri Lanka to heart – perhaps Solheim the Silent is indeed a fitting nickname [...]

Progress Party speaks out against Hamas’ racism

Two days ago Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne wrote about how Hamas rejects Holocaust-education in Gaza-schools. Seeing as how Norway not only heads the ITF this year but also is one of the PA’s, Hamas’ and UNRWA’s greatest sponsors, one would expect the government to react. Alas, the red-green coalition government has so far not [...]

Norway, UNRWA and Holocaust denial

This year Norway heads the ITF for Holocaust Remembrance. Norway is also one of UNRWA’s largest sponsors, which do not teach about the Holcaust in their Gaza-schools. Why? Hamas won’t allow it.

From UNRWA's website

Perhaps Erik Solheim should pop over to Gaza and lay down the law?

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Editorial on Boström: “The disgusting brew”

Unauthorized translation from DagenMagazinet:

Aftonbladet is Sweden’s largest newspaper. On August 17th the newspaper, in its culture section, printed a long “article” by freelance journalist Donald Boström. The article was a disgusting anti-Semitic brew. Aftonbladet’s editors should have discovered that at first glance. But when this obviously did not happen, it begs the question of what [...]

“Dr.Mads” slips into Gaza, is angered by difficult question

Norwegian dog lovers hoping to hear more about Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne’s family dog – a five year old golden retriever by the name of Maja – were disappointed this morning when Mr. Lohne failed to mention Maja with as much as a word. Instead Mr.Lohne writes about the infamous NORWAC doctor Mads Gilbert, [...]

Norway and Sweden: funding Israel’s enemies

Jerusalem Post August 19th – Gerald Steinberg writes the article Swedish government funds anti-Semitic NGO’s. As any Scandinavian will tell you, Sweden and Norway are in many ways very similar – we speak more or less the same language, hold few and shallow grudges against our neighbors, are dedicated to the idea of wealth distribution [...]

Table: Norwegian development aid to Palestinian territories 1993-2006

From the pages of With Israel for Peace (MIFF), Norway’s largest pro-Israel organization. Numbers from NORAD. We see that Norway provides the PA with increasing amounts of money. We also know that Norwegian newspapers write more about Israel than they do about Norway’s own war in Afghanistan. We furthermore know that during the May 1st [...]

Great Expectations: Erik Solheim and Bernie Madoff

Trust is a survival mechanism with the power to destroy you. This is the basic gist of R.M. Kramer’s article “Rethinking trust” in the June edition of Harvard Business Review. Upon reading it, any Norwegian reader of the article will be hard pressed not to immediately think of Norway’s Minister of Development Erik Solheim, who [...]

Norway indicates more funding to solve PA shortfall

July 2nd, 2009: the journal Development Today prints the article “Donors consider crisis package for Palestinian Authority”. The article discusses how Norway tries to get Saudi Arabia onboard for a crisis packaget to the PA, how Norway is the second largest Western donor to the Palestinian areas, and how Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s Minister of [...]

Norway gives NOK 811 million to PA in 2008

Norway’s most prominent political historian, Jens Arup Seip, always told his students that in order to understand history they were only to follow the money and they wouldn’t go wrong. But that was back in the sixties when money was scarce. Today Norway is awash with cash and we use a full 1% of it [...]