J’post reports that today – Friday April 8, 2011- a kibbutz building has been damaged by rockets and that at least 22 rockets have been shot from Gaza terrorists, aiming at civilian population in Southern Israel. None of this has…
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Explain me this, Chaudry, Håheim, Trettebergstuen, Tajik!
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As you plan to drag the good name of Norway through the mud, just to satisfy a truly morbid inclination of yours, please have a look at this: This is the school bus where a 16 year old boy on…
Morten Levin invites Israel Shamir to NTNU, thinks Dershowitz is inappropriate
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Morten Levin is an NTNU academic who uses his position to invite critics of Israel such as Israel Shamir and Ilan Pappe to speak at his university. He does not take kindly to Alan Dershowitz’ recent attempt to do the…
Dershowitz gets to talk in Aftenposten – now read the reply from Andresen
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Andresen is that very unpleasant fellow we wrote about last week, when we translated verbatim with a copy of his own entry on an internal forum at NTNU Here is his reply to Dershowitz (also only in Norwegian in a…
Dershowitz gets to talk in Aftenposten – now read the reply from the University of Oslo
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It is not only our FM Støre who now must retroactively apply damage control after having badly miscalculated the effect of denying Dershowitz a chance to present his views on the Norwegian Middle East debate; now also the Rector of…
Dershowitz gets to talk in Aftenposten – now read the replies from Støre, University of Oslo and Andresen
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After having lashed out at Norway in international media, the Norwegian media then came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to let Dershowitz also speak here, hence his now famous article, which must have been read…
Arutz Sheva: Dershowitz slams Norway for anti-Semitism
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Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz recently visited Norway and was less than impressed with the manner in which he was received and the level of debate he was met with. The Norwegian establishment, of course, just scoffs it off. “Norway is…
Socialistic Left dubious moral tradeoff for bombing Libya: Use armed force against Israel
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The SV annual convention goes to vote. The deranged junior partner in the current government coalition will among other proposals vote on a motion to use armed force against Israel should it attack Gaza. The motion is the blood money…
Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism at Norwegian universities
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The manner in which Norwegian universities welcomed Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, by turning down his offer to speak and than setting of the fire alarm when some students invited Dershowitz on their own, is not unprecedented. We Norwegians like to…
Dershowitz on Norway: ‘A quiet and implicit boycott…’
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Alan Dershowitz believes Norwegian universities are conducting ”a quiet and implicit” boycott of Israel. Yet this is not anything new. Israeli and pro-Israeli lecturers have been harangued at Norwegian universities for decades. The screenshot above shows two letters to Aftenposten in…
Olav Thon: ‘Shameful of the universities to reject Dershowitz’
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According to legend, Olav Thon came to Oslo with two empty hands and three rabbit pelts in his cap-sack. Today he is one of the most successful businessmen in the nation. He believes the universities have acted shamefully in rejecting…
The strange world of Trond Andresen – one of the NTNU initiators of the Boycott Israel campaign
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By now, very many people in Norway have been made aware of the academic boycott of anyone who remotely could be espousing a pro-Israel point of view. But not so many are aware that Dershowitz singled out one particular man…
NTNU University newspaper on Alan Dershowitz’ speech
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If you ever go near NTNU, make sure you do not have anything to do with the university newspaper. Unless you are voicing the Palestinian narrative of course, in which case you had better call them straight away. Here is…
Universities said no to Dershowitz, students said yes
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While Norwegian universities have received Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein with open arms and promised a permanent position to Mordechai Vanunu, they have turned down Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz’ offer of free lectures. Students have now taken the matters…
Norwegian journalist abducted, Norwegian press is silent
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Ammar Al-Hamdam, the Norwegian journalist who has been abducted by the mad puppy of the ME, Saif Al-Islam, is still unaccounted for. The Norwegian press has simply dropped the matter, substituting calls for his release with toe-curlingly embarrassing tales of…
Holocaust denying labour politician made it to the international media!
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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…
Using children as human shield is a war crime
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Vårt Land features an interesting article on the ethical dilemmas the coalition forces encounter as they have to respond to dirty tactics by Gadaffi. The question is: to bomb or not to bomb sites “protected” by human shields. Cecilie Hellestveit…