lifted from miff.no Not worth a day’s worth Students at Lambertseter high school worked a days worth and generated funds for a Palestinian organization that wants to ‘liberate Palestine’. One father joined MIFF once he learned what lurks behind the fine words the organization uses to present itself to foreign supporters. Students and parents...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- Happy 17th of MayOnce more, we gather under our flag to celebrate our freedom. Each 17th of May, the Jewish community in Oslo organize a formal and serene commemoration of Henrik Wergeland, the son of one of the member of the Constituent Assembly for our Constitution. In its original version, our Constitution was shamed by the exclusion of Jews and Jesuits in Norway, som […]
- “Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too badThe synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the speeches Støre and Stoltenberg with no end to the flowery assurances, this is what it comes down to: Jews should be content feeling prett […]
- The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2lifted from Vårt Land Synagogues receive NOK 7.2 million for security The money goes towards securing doors, upgrade the monitoring system and setting up a security fence. The Government proposes in the revised national budget to allocate 7.2 million forsecurity at the Jewish Religious Community (DMT). - No one should have to be afraid to exercise their rel […]
- Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boyAftenposten today published an op-ed from “Daniel,” a 17-year old Norwegian student who happens to be Jewish. He feels surrounded by antisemitic attitudes, ranging from comments by a fellow video game player (“just pretend they’re Jews when you aim at them”), to the inevitable “so you support killing babies?” when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inabi […]
- PalCom action ‘small and unsuccessful’lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee’s action was “small and unsuccessful” Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel’s Dead Sea products in Oslo last Tuesday (May 16) evening. The police were notified in advance and got them quickly away from the place. By Conrad Myrland Published: 16/05/201 […]
- VG’s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on IsraelAstrid Meland published an OpEd in VG on May 14, which currently is not online. MIFF has published a review article online, from where I have lifted the following: Astrid Meland believes Israel’s critics in Norway are victim of a collective neurosis, where you turn a blind eye to much worse breaches of human rights by other states. - Unethical focus on Isra […]
- Stand up, stand up – for the Hebrew MamitaIf I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say – WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none"; […]
- Oopsie – Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitismlifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free – regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the ‘mad professor’ let it rip, as is evident by the details of this op-ed. Why did not the Norwegian intelligentia react at an earlier stage? Did they perhaps agree with the previous […]
- Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the policeLifted from miff.no What can I say? Bravo! MIFF is doing an incredibly important job and luckily their hard efforts are rewarded with a healthy growth in their memberships. Maybe readers of this blog could be entreated to find a way of supporting MIFF? By the way, I have no relation to MIFF, personally or professionally – this is just a courtesy call to reco […]
- What Karsten Tveit’s award really signifiesOdd Karsten Tveit wins the Gullruten lifetime award for his propaganda news coverage from the Middle East. When it comes to correspondents in the Middle East sent by NRK (the governmental broadcasting organization financed by a surcharge on owning a television), it’s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest: you can endlessly discuss who is worse. Bu […]
Norwegian politics
Jewish congregation in Oslo demands that hate crimes against Jews are registered
Lifted from Vårt Land In 2010, Sweden had registered 161 cases of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Germany had 1,268 cases. And Norway? Nobody knows. Norwegian authorities do not keep, in fact, statistics on anti-Semitic hate crimes. This provokes Ervin Kohn, head of the Jewish community (DMT). - When you do not have an overview of these cases one...
VG in the Middle East – now also writing about Israeli school kids who must study in shelters
VG is to be praised for a series of articles they have published in recent days, covering Israel from a different perspective than the usual “aggressor” or “child murderer”. Today, they have published an article featuring the lives of Israeli school children who live near the Gaza strip and who routinely must sit their...
Boycott the boycotters
A Norwegian beauty shop chain, Vita, has decided to boycott Israeli products, claiming that they stem from an illegal settlement: Vita boycotts Ahava Vita does not want to trade in goods from the occupied territories in the West Bank, and therefore stops selling beauty products from Ahava. Ahava loses therefore its most important client in Norway. According to Norwegian People’s Aid, Ahava’s production of beauty products...
Støre: a case of megalomania
I have mentioned previously, in passing, that our FM Støre is currently involved in a scandal where he, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have donated large sums of money to a project where one of Støre’s close friends is CEO and director of the board (a very lucrative affair related to developing the...
Gerstenfeld in ynetnews: Tale of 2 murderers
Tale of 2 murderers Op-ed: Unlike Norway’s Breivik, Toulouse killer Merah represents far wider phenomenon Manfred Gerstenfeld For those who want to understand contemporary European reality somewhat better, comparing the murders committed by Mohammed Merah in Toulouse with the ones by Norwegian Anders Breivik would be a good start. These killings and the responses...
VG: Norwegian media coverage makes Israel scape goat
This story was published in VG to day. I applaud this, a decent self-critical article. More of this, please! VG net) The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians gets more media attention than bloodier conflicts elsewhere in the world. The Organization With Israel for Peace believes it creates unreasonable enemy projections. With Israel for Peace...
While Palestinian business executives warn about the stifling effect of massive aid on proper Palestinian economic development, Fayyad begs for more
We should have known it, when FM Støre met with a Palestinian business executive who warned that the massive aid packages in fact stifle economic growth for Palestinians, and promised something would be done about it, Støre in fact meant to use it as a stick to beat Israel with. In stead of taking...
Ouch! Giulio Meotti gives us a slap on the cheek: Norway is ‘bulwark of global anti-Semitism.’
What goes around, comes around. It is not only the PA that is looking very bad after the Toulouse attacks. The Italian journalist and commentator Giulio Meotti sees Norwegian anti-Israelism as the modern anti-Semitism, a view that is supported in the latest survey on anti-Semitism in Europe. A Jew-free Europe Op-ed: The ongoing process...
PA Fayyad: don’t use Pal cause for terror – PA Abbas: praises teenager who attacked an Israeli soldier with a knife
Yesterday, PA PM Fayyad tried to do some damage control after the Toulouse murderer claimed he shot the Jewish kids and a rabbi to avenge the death of Palestinian children. Unfortunately for Mr. Fayyad, the cat is out of the bag, and everybody knows that the PA now must face the music they themselves...
VG: Israel ready for big war with iron dome
Israel’s super shield ready for major war ASHDOD (AP) The last few weeks of fighting with Palestinian groups in Gaza have given the Israeli military with valuable experience in front of a war with Iran. - We have learned very much during the recent escalation in the conflict with Gaza. We are far better prepared...
Gerstenfelds interview with Hanne Nabintu Herland
Op-Ed: Norway: The Most Anti-Semitic Country in the West Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:18 PM “The current Labor/radical left Norwegian government is promoting an extreme one-sided and negative stance toward Israel. It is responsible for creating a politically-correct hatred of Israel among many people in the country. This has made Norway, in my view, the most...
Palestinian business person: Aid is cause of Palestinian economic hardship
For some time now, representatives of the African Union have tried to drive home the message to aid groups, that trade is better than aid. This has been a difficult lesson to learn for ‘aid’ specialists, who after all have carved out a nice living for themselves based on other people’ needs. Very few...
Toulouse fallout – Palestinian damage control: PA PM Fayyad – keep the Palestinian cause separate
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 Islamic/Jihadic groups to please not refer to Palestine or the Palestinian cause when they...
Not in Norwegian news: Israeli – PA cooperation
Lately, the Norwegian press has had very little to report from or about Israel (except during last weeks rocket rain), probably because they realize the tremendous damage they will do to themselves if they continue to under-report the blood bath that continues to unfold in Syria. Nevertheless, it would have been nice if they...
More media lies
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 procession. A Palestinian spokesman said that an 8 year old boy had died of...
Trondheim, not exactly your shteitale Beltz
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 ideal that cannot ever be reconstructed. Regardless of that childlike yearning, the comparison with...
In Syria, deaths are apparent; in Gaza they are unquestioned truths
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 or somebody I love, I have no compunction in protecting my own life, first...
Norwegian People’s Aid: impossible to become more partial
While more than 500000 Israeli citizens have been told to stay indoors, and 200000 kids prevented from going to school and life disrupted for many hundreds of thousands more in Southern Israel, the NPA’s man in Gaza does his very best to remove all doubt; the NPA has no interest in helping contain the...
Norwegian media: Israel attacked Gaza, killed Palestinians, no mention of safety instructions in place for hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians
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 on the dead Gazans, consistently refusing to call them terrorists (except for in the...