Municipal

Trondheim, not exactly your shteitale Beltz

by McGonagall • March 14, 2012 • 10 Comments

Any Lansman carries in his or her heart, in one form or another, fond memories of the lovely village Beltz. Sure enough, most often the Beltz we carry within us is a romantic, perhaps even a unrealistic representation of an…

by McGonagall • February 10, 2012 • 2 Comments

As the Minister of Education, Kristin Halvorsen now has to deal with the unfortunate situation that Norwegian-Israeli parents feel stigmatized by state’s decision to sponsor book that casts Israelis as evil, the rest of the massive state apparatus throws more…

by McGonagall • October 3, 2011 • 2 Comments

Hamar Arbeiderblad 2011 09 28, Stian F. Steinsvik Summary: A slightly tragicomically story on a failed project by the Municipality of Hamar: A local committee of pro-Pal activists were at first promised fiscal aid aid by the mayor of Hamar,…

by McGonagall • September 13, 2011 • 3 Comments

The short version of yesterdays election is: Labour Party does fairly well, with an overall percentage of just under 32. The conservative party had a party and came home with 28 percent, up a whopping 8,7%. The Progressive party had…

by McGonagall • September 9, 2011 • 1 Comment

Politics is by necessity a matter of negotiation. Unless you win an outright majority, you will have to strike deals, sell favors or call in favors. Even when you do have an outright majority, you still have to take the…

by McGonagall • September 8, 2011 • 6 Comments

I have said it before, and I will now say it again. There can be no greater privilege – or duty – for a citizen, than voting. There is a most worrying trend where many Norwegians, but also Brits, Americans…

by McGonagall • August 26, 2011 • 8 Comments

On June 30 2011, this article was uploaded on the home page of the Socialistic Left party: first paragraph: For more than 40 years, Israel has occupied Palestine and has denied the Palestinians the possibility to live a decent life.In…

by McGonagall • April 23, 2011 • 5 Comments

Sadly, Daniel Viflic’s life was cut brutally short. By a heat seeking missile from Gaza. Before him, the entire Fogel family was murdered, and before them hundreds, thousands have had their lives cut short, leaving families truncated, devastated by their…

by McGonagall • April 14, 2011 • 0 Comments

Oh, dearie me, Norwegian stocks are taking a beating lately. After having surfed the waves, playing the big pretender, it seems the party is over. After having been lambasted for the Dershowitz fracas, the impossibility that a man like Trond…

by McGonagall • March 22, 2011 • 1 Comment

Here is the latest on the sad saga of the Sami labour politician who denied the Holocaust. He made it to the ynet.com, where we are now getting our noses bloodied. So, just because Mathisen thinks he can hide behind…

by admin • March 16, 2011 • 0 Comments

Anders Mathisen was a Labor politico until he denied the Holocaust, whereupon Labor found that Mathisen had not paid his annual party-membership fee and was therefore no longer a member of the party. Nor will he be allowed to rejoin,…

by admin • March 13, 2011 • 0 Comments

Until only two days ago, Anders Mathisen was a virtually unknown politician for Labor. Then Finnmarken, a local newspaper, broke the story of how Mathisen is a vehement Holocaust-denier. Labor has since found that Mathisen has not paid his party-membership…

by admin • March 13, 2011 • 0 Comments

On March 11th we learned that Labor politico Anders Mathisen was a Holocaust-denier. Labor acted swiftly. Discovering that Mathisen had not paid his party-membership fee, Labor stated that Mathiesen was not a party-member and that he would not be allowed…

by admin • March 12, 2011 • 0 Comments

Yesterday every newspaper in Norway reported on how Labor politico Anders Mathisen denies that the Holocaust has happened. Today we learn that Labor does not recognize Mathisen as a member of the party as he has not paid his annual…

by admin • March 11, 2011 • 15 Comments

To such an extent is Arbeiderpartiet (Labor) the most powerful political structure in Norway, that Norway’s most prominent political historian Jens Arup Seip once claimed Norway should be acknowledged as a one-party state. Today Dagbladet informs us that Labor politician…

by McGonagall • February 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

In an interesting turn of events, Dagen informs us that the notice served on Israel embassy in Oslo to vacate premises in 1 year has been withdrawn. For bureaucratic reasons. Which apparently surfaced after Ynet wrote a story on the…

by McGonagall • January 17, 2011 • 0 Comments

Here is another non-Israel story, with focus on the state of affairs for Norwegian prison inmates, in particular the wrongful use of prolonged detention before trial (in effect, suspects of crime are routinely imprisoned), isolation, sub standard medical care of…

by admin • October 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

NRK reports that Oslo city council has overruled the Israel-boycott of the two Oslo-boroughs of Gamle Oslo and Grorud. Excerpt: This was against the votes of Rødt (Red) and SV (The Socialist Left), which wanted the entire borough to boycott…

by admin • October 20, 2010 • 1 Comment

The good thing about a monologue is that you only get to hear one side of the story. Roy Vega writes about the “Gaza monologues” on Document.no: This years’ most one-sided political stunt, next after the Gaza convoys, is the…

by admin • August 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

Tromsø.no reports that the municipal council of Troms, in Northern Norway, has blockaded a proposal of a boycott of Israel. From Tromsø.no (unauthorized translation): It was during Wednesday’s municipal board meeting that Jens Ingvald Olsen in the party Rødt (Red)…

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