• Aftenposten journalist is Palestine-activist
    Aftenposten: "Beat Palestinian children during interrogations" On March 15th Norway’s second largest newspaper Aftenposten published an editorial on the importance of combatting anti-Semitism. As Document.no points out, Aftenposten can start by examining its own journalists. John J.Mearsheimer og Stephen M.Walt write about the media (in “The Israel […]
  • Action Plan focuses on islamophobia, not anti-Semitism
    Anniken Huitfelt in Dagbladet, April 17th 2009 Following NRK journalist Tormod Strand’s program on anti-Semitism in Norwegian schools, the media is all over the issue. But this is not new. Anti-Semitism in the schools was a big issue almost exactly one year ago as well. The news is that even the problem was known, it [...] […]
  • Situation in Norway proves necessity of Jewish state
    Aftenposten op-ed "The Norwegian Jew disappears" Norway is one of those societies which has great difficulties in providing Jews with circumstances in which they can thrive. The author of the op-ed in Aftenposten above raises an interesting question: If Jews cannot live in Norway, does not that prove the necessity of a Jewish state where [...] […]
  • Opposition gently demands action plan against anti-Semitism
    Syversen of the Christian Democrats Hans Olav Syversen of the Christian Democrats is asking that the authorities take anti-Semitism seriously. Mr.Syversen has a good track record of doing so himself, although there are those who say that he is too much of a gentleman to be a match for the brawlers he faces. Unauthorized translation [...] […]
  • Klassekampen and Islamic Council join in against anti-Semitism, sort of
    Communist daily Klassekampen Communist daily Klassekampen has little love for Israel but is pitching in against anti-Semitism – in its own way. Unauthorized translation from “We need to clean house“, with General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council - We need to know more, says Sultan to Klassekampen. - Concrete measures demand a better mapping of […]
  • Oslo bookshop offers Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitic litterature
    Bookshop sells Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitism Sara Azmeh Rasmussen says to Vårt Land (above) that she recently purchased a vehemently anti-Semitic book at a bookstore in Oslo. The bookstore in question is located in the same building as a mosque and the Islamic Council.  The book is allegedly subsidized by Saudi-Arabia, and goes for NOK 55. She is [...] […]
  • το πρότυπο του ισπανού μπλόγκερ είναι η νορβηγική ιστοσελίδα Norway, Israel and the jews
    This keeps happening. Blogs in foreign languages hook up. The reason is not that people necessarily are all that interested in Norway, or that NIJ is such a fantastic blog people just cannot stay away, but rather that people all across the world are starting to recognize the international obsession with Israel for what it [...] […]
  • La Croix-Rouge veut que les Juifs norvégiens soient jugés pour crimes de guerre commis en Israël
    Decades of one-sided information has made many prominent Norwegians incapable of recognizing their desire to punish Israel for what is is – a malign obsession. Even as anti-Semitism is being uncloaked, Bernt G. Apeland is only to happy to step up to bat, speaking of investigating Norwegian Jews for war-crimes. Perhaps one of these days [...] […]
  • Un blog norvégien inspire trois bloggeurs (belge, espagnol, suédois)
    During the NTNU boycott-proposal debate there was one academic who suggested that this blog was part of a powerful conspiracy attempting to “stifle all debate”. Another NTNU academic wrote a furious letter to the university newspaper suggesting that this blog is financed by the state of Israel. As luck has it there are others who [...] […]
  • Anti-Semitism at the barber shop
    The above is a screenshot from the blog Muslimprosjektet, which describes itself as “Searching for the truth about muslims in Norway”. This is perhaps not the most exact mission-statement ever made, but the author of the blog appears to be a sensible, well-educated sort of person. In his latest post he writes about his experiences [...] […]

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 [...]