Norway, Israel and the Jews
Aftenposten and NRK organized a public meeting on how to confront the new anti-Semitism in Norway. The debate was sporadically very tense and SV’s Kristin Halvorsen got a dressing down over left’s failure to confront its anti-Semitic attitudes: lifted from Aftenposten A heated debate on the new Jew hatred More than half of school...
lifted from Ynetnews.com In case somebody thinks is an alarmist view, let us just remind ourselves that it is just over a year ago that Alan Dershowitz was denied access to Norwegian universities (or, if somebody takes offense at this blunt version of truth, his offer to speak was kindly declined due to his...
It appears Dr. Lindstad has some free time on his hands, this time wasting it by trying to be a match for Gerstenfeld: WRONG ON HOLOCAUST Aftenposten 2012 05 02 p 6 Trond Ali Linstad Not Online On April the 26th, Manfred Gerstenfeld writes an article in which the main content is this: Iran...
Here is a small selection of reactions to Galtungs rants. All, bar a literature and culture festival located at a small hamlet outside Haugesund, condemn Galtung. The festival SILK plans to host Galtung as a main attraction, see bottom of page for translation article in Haugesunds Avis. Dagbladet , editorial 2012 04 29 FROM A...
lifted from VG. School kids learn to tackle rocket attacks By Erlend Skevik Photo: Harald Henden ASHDOD: Here, Israeli school kids rehearse how to seek protection from enemy rocket attack All Israel is now preparing a new war that may come in the next few months. In recent weeks, the fighting between Israeli air forces and Palestinian groups in...
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...
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...
Dagsavisens forum for polite debate can from time to time look surprisingly like the inside of the head of a person with very unstable hormones, or perhaps neurons like over-ripe camembert cheese. Or, like a grotty catacomb where no air has circulated for centuries. It is probably a style thing; to be oddly out...
In the wake of the PM’s apology to Norwegian Jews for the persecution, state terrorism and injustice suffered during WWII, many other ministers feel they have to step up to the pressure to fight anti-Semitism in Norway. This time, the buck has stopped at the door steps of Minister of Education Kristin Halvorsen. A...
Not very much news on Israel this weekend so can feed you a little gossip on what goes on in our own little pond… The US embassy has issued the following warning to US travelers heading for Oslo: REQUEST AMERICANS TO BE CAREFUL WHILE IN NORWAY ABC Nyheter 2012 01 18, NTB On Tuesday,...
THE STORY OF YOSEF’S RETURN-PRISON AND CHILDREN ASSAULTED Avisen Agder 2012 01 17 Erik Thime Summary. Tear jerker story about Yosef Fayad- according to himself an ex-policeman in the PA- who was denied asylum in Norway and returned to the PA. He claims to have been arrested and incarcerated for five days by the...
The annual School Shows are over us, with every high school around the country putting on a show, musical, tragical, comical or merely hormonal. A long cherished tradition, this is the time of year pupils forget about exam revision and looming exams (anyway, not a worry that seems to press unduly on Norwegian high...
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...
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...
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has published an extensive essay on anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in Western schools. It is well researched and well documented and gives concrete examples from various countries in Europe. Below I have copied in some selected examples from Norway. It seems we are merely copying other countries, but in some areas upping...
None of my friends would stick the label “prude” on me, since they know that I think that what people do in their beds or elsewhere, as part of their private intimate life, is just that, private and nothing to get neither upset nor moralistic about, as long as this most natural and fundamental...
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...
Promoting hate for Israel Op-ed: European educators brainwash young minds with blatant anti-Israel views Manfred Gerstenfeld Earlier this month it became known that the German EVZ Foundation had financed two high school student programs which promoted hatred of Israel. This state foundation was created to compensate Holocaust slave workers and fight contemporary anti-Semitism. In...
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...
A local newspaper, Budstikka, brings us an article on how Nesbru high school, promotes anti-Semitism in an “arts” exhibition for and by their students. An Israeli student was deeply shocked and offended when she came to school and found a crossed out Israeli flag, with the words murder underneath it. As an Israeli I...