Anyone with a memory that goes back more than 2 weeks will remember how the Norwegian General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Olav Fykse, stepped right into the dog toffee with his claim that Jerusalem for Jews, is like Gothenburg for Norwegians, a town of no importance. In fairness, his exact wording...
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 […]
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A Dickensian tale….
It is Christmas, so Norwegian priests are busy spreading their gospel. Live must be deliciously simple when all your problems are one dimensional. On his next trip to Jerusalem, I shall be happy to take the Vickar Vaaland along to the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva to meet the kids there. Of how silly of me,...
Støre calls Israel’s retention of PA tax after breach of Oslo accords “water boarding of economy”, but is mum on Syria torture
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...
The Center Party proposes Bishop Gunnar Stålsett Nobel Cte vice representative
Gunnar Stålsett, the bishop who regretted having awarded Shimon Peres (Shimon Peres! You really cannot find a more docile man than him!) the Nobel peace price, has been proposed as vice representative to the Nobel Price Committee. Let me put it like this, a couple of days ago, guest writer Bell Martin wrote a...
Anti-Semitic exhibition that was sponsored by Norwegian Church Aid removed after student protests
Yesterday we reported on an anti-Semitic exhibition at Nesbru High School, and how the school, at the time the local newspaper – Budstikka – wrote the story, had not yet decided whether or not to remove the entire exhibition. Miff.no brings us the latest developments (unauthorized translation): Demonization of Israel removed after student protests...
Norwegian Church Aid at it again: More violence to be used against Palestinians
They are a special lot, these Norwegian Christians… what will be their next news feed? That the Israelis (which we all know are the Jews) use children’s blood in their matze? This seems too familiar and too low, even for the Norwegian Church Aid. And the Church of Norway wonders why Norwegians don’t really...
“International Law Experts” with egg on their faces: Gaza blockade legal
Now that we have the ruling from the UN on the matter, could we please ask the following persons, or organizations to retract their statements or amend their entries so that they reflect reality: SV: Gaza blockade is illegal The International Red Cross Committee: Gaza blockade breaches international Law Professor Geir Ulfstein at the...
Israel suffers huge terror attack, delusional Norwegian lefty claims Israel engages in state terrorism.
Here is an example of a truly disturbed mind! He seems to have forgotten context, terrorists in Gaza attack Israel with guns and rockets, killing 8, injuring scores more. I cannot see that this deeply immoral person has made any effort to talk on behalf of the Syrians, nor the Kurds, not even the...
Syria: Assad attacks Latakia with tanks and navy, hospital trashed by army… but where are our friends Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse?
As blood continues to flow throughout all of Syria, the conspicuous silence from Norwegian leftists who love a war from the sidelines rumbles like thunder. Where are they all? Where are the Blitzers, their web page features the fate of a group of Palestinian refugees in Norway, but no concern for Syrians? Where is...
Its official, the Norwegian activists give up and come home
We already wrote about the Gaza flotilla flop last week, and how the “activists” reluctantly admitted that they could not carry on sitting on the quays of Greece to wait for further clarification. Well, now it is official, the Norwegians are coming home, but not without making further idiots of themselves. The Socialistic Left...
Musings from an Islamic extremist hotbed
Norway is a little nation on the outskirts of civilization. In spite of claims of fierce independence, of moral clarity, a humanitarian superpower, we are in fact rather boring copy cats. Fashion and political trends only migrate towards our latitudes only when they are on the wane in other parts of Europe, Western world....
Now Norwegians know what Khaybar means
Norwegians who read Dagbladets book review of Halvor Tjønns book “Muhammed” will by now probably understand the extreme gravity of the placard in the 2009 Gaza demonstration that turned into a pogrom in Oslo. Several placards had the words Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahoud, jaish Muhammad saufa ya’ud” painted on them. This means “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews,...
Norway has been found out again – this time in Spanish
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 Andresen can teach at a University after publicly displaying his intolerance of others, the...
Black students say keep apartheid out of it
J’post has this little gem today Apparently black students from several universities have had enough of the misappropriation of the term ‘apartheid’ that Students for Justice in Palestine have stolen from Black Americans. In a series of ads that will feature in US college paper leaders of black students organizations state it clearly “decency,...
Norwegian journalist abducted, Norwegian press is silent
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 pubertal sex romps. Why is the Norwegian press ditching a colleague? Is it because...
Disingenuous Norwegian Church Aid
Vårt Land brings us today a that the Secretary General of Norwegian Church Aid thinks Norway should protest against an Israeli law proposal that would ban Israeli proponents of Israel boycott. He cites 40 Israeli human rights organizations that protest this proposal, who also claim that such a law would diminish human right works...
Church of Norway – a ministry of dark deeds
That the Church of Norway still has to own up to some pretty horrific views on Jews and Israel is already old news. We have previously written about how bishops minister to congregants on how the Jews no longer have a claim to the land of Israel, this on the heels of other howler,...
Supercessionist Palestinian theology develops market in Norway
Is there a market for supercessionist Palestinian theology in Norway? Perhaps not, but there are elements in the Norwegian church who are trying hard to create one. CAMERA has picked up on how Palestinian supercessionist Naim Ateek is being courted by Norwegian supporters. Unauthorized translation from the article “Runs theological intifada against Israel” from...