• ‘Jews themselves wrote lists of whom were to die in concentration camps’
    The University of Oslo wants to fire a history professor – appearently for having violated its health, environment and safety (HES) code. Protesters say this has nothing to do with HES and everything to do with the Univeristy curtailing the freedom of expression of its staff. One of the protestors is Professor of Law Jan [...] […]
  • Norwegian funnymen fearful of insulting Muhammed
    Norwegian comedian Thomas Seltzer. Picture from NRK P3. In 2006 funnyman Otto Jespersen demonstrated his courageous wit by torching the Bible. When asked why he did not burn the Koran, he replied: “We considered that too, but could not get hold of a copy. What is more I am 52 years old now and reckon [...] […]
  • Støre and Syria, Bishops’ Boycott
    FM Jonas Gahr Støre met with Syria’s FM Muallem on Monday8th. Nothing much in the media about that, not at all. Syria hardly registers at all. In the clip above you see a program from Syrian television. Does not this look like the kind of society Norwegians ought to be worried over? Remember [...] […]
  • VG on Bishops’ Boycott
    Verdens Gang (VG) - Norway's largest daily Verdens Gang (VG) is Norway’s largest daily. In today’s editorial the newspaper claims that the Bishops Boycott is, pretty much, a walk down nonsense street. Unauthorized translation: We believe that the Bishops ought to bury the though of a boycott of trade as soon as possible. They receive the [...] […]
  • No Press Accreditation for PR-woman Yngvild Mortensen
    Qassam rockets: from Ynet news Dagbladet reports on how freelancing journalist Yngvild Mortensen has her knickers in a twist as Israel refuses to grant her press accreditation. The reason Ms.Mortensen is not getting one is because she is a freelancer, and not in steady employ. When one looks back upon the long series of biased [...] […]
  • Is Dagbladet confusing Gaza with the Westbank?
    Dagbladet attributes this picture to Gaza, by Reuters, Elilana Aponte and Scanpix. The picture above is from an article in Dabladet titled “New peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians“. The first half hour the picture did not have any explaining subtext, which easily might have lead readers to believe the picture shows an Israeli kicking [...] […]
  • FM Støre, Dr Mads, Syversen on the Bishops’ Boycott
    Norwegian Bishops have come up with the idea that boycotting Israel just might be a fine idea. Foreign Minister Jonas Ghar Støre is opposed to a boycott and says so in today’s Verdens Gang – Norway’s largest daily. Unauthorized translation: – It is good that the Church speaks out for the opprssed, but the Church’s main [...] […]
  • Editor slams Bishops’ Boycott
    DagenMagazinet For Vebjørn Selbekk “freedom of expression” is more than just words, as is “courage”. After publishing an article on the cartoon-war in 2006, he became embroiled in it himself, receiving only luke-warm support from the Norwegian intelligensia and political establishment as he stood up for his editorial right to publish news-stories on relevant […]
  • Johan Galtung finds Gaza ‘a replay of the Warsaw ghetto’
    The Russel Tribunal for Palestine is supported by among other Ilan Pappe, Ken Loach and John Pilger. There is also a Norwegian onboard, Mr. Johan Galtung – above behind the rostrum at what appears to be a Turkish university. Below you see a section from a transcript from his lecture, where Mr.Galtung identifies Israel’s policies [...] […]
  • France horrified by Silfur Egills
    Iceland - a great little island society Iceland is a great little island mainly populated by decent and hardworking people. It is also home to a talk-show host who is “horrified” by Israel, refuses to elaborate on why, and calls NIJ an “idiot-site” for asking. Meanwhile the French are watching, wondering what on earth [...] […]

Foros de Noticias on NTNU

Someone in the Spanish speaking world has picked up on the seminar-series at NTNU. From Foros de Noticias.

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (Universidad de Ciencia y Tecnología de Noruega) ha hecho un llamamiento al boicot académico a Israel. Bjørn K. Alsberg, académico de la citada Universidad, ha dado a conocer su parecer:

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Dignernes’ blog down after SPME article

The SPME has publised Manfred Gerstenfeld’s article – NTNU, a Norwegian Hate University – which was originally published in Hebrew in the weekly Makor Rishon.

Scholars for Peace of the Middle East, which opposes academic boycotts has already informed the 30 000 academics on its worldwide mailing list about NTNU’s abuse of values of what a [...]

NTNU student to dean: “We will not give in”

On his blog, Dean Torbjørn Digernes at NTNU  “salutes” the organizing committee behind the NTNU seminars on Israel and remains convinced that the seminars-series is a “praiseworthy initiative”. Students, staff and ordinary citizens are less convinced. The latest comment to Mr.Digernes’ blog is another protest – unauthorized translation below:

Dear Dean.
It is saddening to see my university [...]

Criticism builds against unbalanced NTNU seminars

Criticism is building against the Israel-seminars which are hosted at NTNU this autumn. As critics point out both the programme-committee behind the seminars and the speakers are well-known Israel-critics, and it is suspected that this will be reflected in the seminars. Furthermore there is reason to believe that the seminars are intended to gather support for the call for [...]

Christian Democrats: “Horrible of Hamas to deny the Holocaust”

The red-green government has been a staunch supporter of the PA, Hamas and the UNRWA. Yet when it is revealed that Hamas rejects tuition on the Holocaust in Gaza-schools, the red-green government is silent. Perhaps Norwegians should take the criticism from Sri Lanka to heart – perhaps Solheim the Silent is indeed a fitting nickname [...]

Progress Party speaks out against Hamas’ racism

Two days ago Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne wrote about how Hamas rejects Holocaust-education in Gaza-schools. Seeing as how Norway not only heads the ITF this year but also is one of the PA’s, Hamas’ and UNRWA’s greatest sponsors, one would expect the government to react. Alas, the red-green coalition government has so far not [...]

Norway: election opinion polls show gov on defensive

Here is the latest opinion polls. Roughly broken down the “Reds” – left of centre parties – are in favour of the “right of return” and such. The “Blues” – right of centre parties – understand how “the right of return” is unacceptable to the people of Israel as an influx of five million Palestinians [...]

Reader query: Will donations to Palestinian organizations be scrutinized too?

A reader asks whether donations to Palestinian organization, like those to Israeli organizations, will be subjected to the same level of scrutiny (As we have posted on the Socialst Left wants to end tax exemptions for donations to Israeli organizations operating on the West Bank). This is a highly relevant topic. Norway is a major [...]

Dagen: Sweden condemned in Israel

The scandal over Boström’s article has so far not caused much of a ruckus in Norway.  One of newspapers that has picked up on the story is DagenMagazinet. Here is an article from August 22nd, by Odd Sverre Hove. Unauthorized translation below:

An Israeli newspaper by the name of Jisrael Hajom wrote yesterday that one in [...]

Norway and Israel – trade increases in spite of threats of boycott

In some circles there is a conspicious amount of talk about how important it is to boycott, out of all nations on earth, precisely Israel (see Boycott-category). Indeed on May 1st, Israel was the only country to be singled out for criticism by powerful LO (trade union conferderacy) leader Roar Flåthen. It is therefore interesting [...]

“Free Shalit” 4000 christians call at pro-Israel rally

Between 3500 and 4000 christians rallied in support of Israel on Sunday.  The excerpt below is from the Global News Service of the Jewish People. 

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally in Norway called for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

More than 4,000 Christian supporters of Israel participated in Sunday’s rally, which is being [...]

Huge gathering in support of Israel

In Norway you miss out on a lot if you don’t read DagenMagazinet, a christian daily roughly on the same size as Klassekampen (Class War), a communist daily. Here is an unauthorized translation of an article covering a huge pro-Israel rally held last Sunday, by journalist Bjørn Arild Hatlem. Now 3 500 may not sound [...]