Academia

Israel’s security strategies as assessed by Norwegian researcher…

January 16, 2012
By McGonagall

cough cough… longwinded, tendentious…. WILL ISRAEL REASSESS ITS SECURITY STRATEGIES? Forskning.no 2012 01 14, Torgeir E. Fjærtoft Israel, with its legitimacy disputed in its region, drives vital political dynamics in the Middle East. All contending factions in the neighbouring countries relate to Israel and its policies, directly or indirectly, one way or the other....

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To the University of Oslo, it is all Israel’s fault

January 5, 2012
By McGonagall

HAPPY ISRAEL, MISERABLE PALESTINE Forskning.no 2012 01 05 Runo Isaksen Summary. The University of Oslo, cooperating with the Bir Zeit University, concludes with Israeli occupation being the cause of Palestinians feeling miserable. An index by the UN, the HDI of 2011, concerning human development finds Israelis are the 17th happiest people in the world,...

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Pal Activist, blasts Nobel Laureate Tawakkol Karman for failing to mention Palestinian women

December 16, 2011
By McGonagall

Mr. Kjetil Nilsen is responsible for information and the web-master of the University College of Harstad. When not busy doing the job he receives a juicy salary sponsored by the tax payer, he also writes a blog on all the trials and tribulations of the Palestinians. His entry on the Nobel Peace Price award...

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Tunander says he has been misunderstood

December 13, 2011
By McGonagall

Following todays thunderstorm in the wake of his scandalous article suggesting that Israel may have something to do with the terrible 22/7 tragedy, Tunander now says that it is all a terrible misunderstanding and that he in fact was trying to show that Israel had nothing to do with it. Tunander: – I have...

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Peace researcher exposed: Prio researcher Tunander suggests Israel involved in 22/7.

December 13, 2011
By McGonagall

A new Norwegian journal, which incidentally bears just that name (Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift), has published an article by Prio peace researcher Professor Ola Tunander. This article has caused several indignant responses, where respondents question Tunanders mental sanity. A very unusual feat in Norway, and finally one that certainly will rip the shiny wings off...

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On Iran’s expressed genocidal intent – Butenschøn: The West has not done enough to accommodate Iran’s attempts to dialogue; blames Israel

December 6, 2011
By McGonagall

The world according to Butenschøn: Time after time, from the rostrum of the UN in New York, then, reiterated in Geneva and just about any other venue that foolishly has provided access to that genocidal lunatic who stole the presidency in Iran, the world has heard how the Iranian leader has promised to wipe...

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Educational expo – lets make a Jew-smoothie

December 2, 2011
By McGonagall

Here he mixes a “Jew-smoothie” “Don’t let the name of the smoothie ruin your appetite! The ingredients will do, “the web portal Velgyrkesfag.no published, after a hired actor mixed” Jew smoothie “in front of hundreds of school children. - Distasteful and vulgar, according to historian and lecturer. by: Susanne Lysvold Under the title “Normal and obscene...

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Støre calls Israel’s retention of PA tax after breach of Oslo accords “water boarding of economy”, but is mum on Syria torture

November 29, 2011
By McGonagall

Our FM Støre made head lines around the world last week, when he accused Israel of water boarding the PA economy in response to the PA’s unilateral actions at the UN, in contravention of the Oslo agreement. Yesterday, a UN report concluded that The substantial body of evidence gathered by the commission indicates that...

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Klassekampen – The only Norwegian newspaper commemorating the horrors of November 26, 1942.

November 27, 2011
By McGonagall
Klassekampen – The only Norwegian newspaper commemorating the horrors of November 26, 1942.

As far as I have been able to verify, ultra leftist and anti-Israeli newspaper Klassekampen, is the only Norwegian newspaper that has commemorated the horrible events of November 26, 1942. Their article is very welcome, as it not only reminds us of past horrors, but questions why Norwegian researchers and academic institutions have failed...

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Norway’s cultural and social elites care little for knowledge

November 10, 2011
By McGonagall

Unauthorized translation from an oped by Aftenpostens cultural editor, Knut Olav Amås on November 7 2011 Are we fleeing from knowledge? According to the country’s most prominent science journalist, the Norwegian cultural and social elites have destroyed much of the respect for knowledge in Norway. He is partly right in his assertion. I am currently reading a book that...

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NTNU bends over backwards to make anti-Semitism legitimate. And if it comes from a Jew, then of course it must be true.

November 9, 2011
By McGonagall

Here is a little lovely story found in Universitetsavisa.no, the universities own newspaper. They have previously suggested that NIJ is behind hate mail to climate scientists and anti-Israel academics. This story has previously been reported on Harry’s Place Jewish identity is the problem Gilad Atzmon goes straight to the core of what he sees as the problem of the State of...

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Lars Gule: Many Israelis are aware that their land has been built on stolen land

November 3, 2011
By McGonagall

I must admit I am at a loss as to what the purpose of Lars Gules never-ending story in Minervanett is. Is it a book review? Is it an essay? Or is it just the ramblings of a man who has fallen in love with his own voice? The good thing I suppose, is...

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Bell Martin: Short summary of children’s book daddy is a pirate

November 3, 2011
By McGonagall
Bell Martin: Short summary of children’s book daddy is a pirate

Do you remember the children’s book by Norwegian psychiatrist and Palcom author Hans Sande that cast Israeli soldiers first as cruel, denying Palestinians water, then stupid – getting drunk on duty to let the pirate daddy sneak past the control post? Reader Bell Martin has read the book, and provided a short resume and some...

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Klassekampen journalist who wrote a really bad book, takes bad review out on gays, Africans and Jews.

October 29, 2011
By McGonagall

Here is the story on how a failed author and Klassekampen journalist Mimir Kristjansson took it out on gays, Africans and Jews in childish tantrum after stinging book review (Thanks to the reader who sent me the story and translated for me, much obliged!) Knut Olav Amaas, culture editor in Aftenposten, wrote a short...

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Dagsavisen – important profiles want to prohibit circumcision of boys

October 26, 2011
By McGonagall

Several consultative bodies think the practice should be forbidden The Nursing federation,  the Ombudsman for Children the Norwegian Humanist Association, the Resource Center for men and the Medical Faculty at the University of Oslo want an end to the practice, according to Dagsavisen. Each year approximately 2,000 newborn boys are circumcised in Norway. In...

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Gilad Shalt finally on his way home; Norwegian ME “experts” think this is a sign Hamas can become integrated in the political process

October 12, 2011
By McGonagall

We are all delighted that finally, Gilad Shalit is on his way home. Finally, after more than 5 years in captivity, his nightmare, and that of his family and friends, is finally coming to an end. The story has been widely reported in Norwegian media, predominantly as a very positive development. But some researchers...

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What is it with Klassekampen, Andresen and anti-Semitism?

October 2, 2011
By McGonagall

Minervanett, a liberal (conservative) political blog questions Klassekampens relationship to the Jews. In an article, Klassekampen and the Jewish danger, the researcher Kjetil B Simonsen analyzes the relationship between conspiracy theories and classical anti-Semitism exemplified by our good friend, the associate professor at NTNU, Trond Andresen and Klassekampens inability to control its anti-Semitic tic....

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New research project on slave work during WWII: The dominating narrative of heroism in Norway during WW2 will be challenged.

September 20, 2011
By McGonagall

An ongoing research project at the NTNU is exploring how slave work during WW2 laid foundations for Norway’s economic growth. This article is from Gemini, the online news channel on science and research at the NTNU. This land was built on slavery Professor Hans Otto Frøland, Department of History and Classical Studies, converses with the reporter Siv Ingrid Skau Ekra: During World War...

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NTNU associate professor Andresen at it again

September 16, 2011
By McGonagall

Below you will find an angry reply by Trond Andresen, the NTNU associate professor who previously has shared with us his peculiar views on the Jews, on an article by Øistein Strømmen, conspiracies in the national media. In this article, Øistein Strømmen, who actually is an expert on the extreme right wing, raises a scathing attack...

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Palmer report biased according to Hamar Arbeiderblad

September 15, 2011
By McGonagall

One of the organizers of the Norwegian floptilla, Ships to Gaza, has been given ample room to trash the findings of the Palmer report regarding the Mavi Marmari, since it did not yield the result they so desperately wanted. Hamar Arbeiderblad is happy to provide a stage for unhappy sailors who now have been...

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