• Malmö: Ever since I came here people have been shouting ‘fucking Jew’ at me
    Anyone concerned for the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in Scandinavia who is not reading Sweden, Israel and the Jews is robbing themselves blind. If you follow Sweden, this is the place to go. Ilya Meyer has a larger archive. On the other hand Norwegian newspapers, with exception being made for Aftenposten, are not particularly interested in [...] […]
  • ‘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 [...] […]

Aftenposten centrefold on anti-Semitism in Malmö

Aftenposten: Norway's second largest newspaper

Aftenposten today covers anti-Semitism in Malmö in Sweden with the article “Jew-hatered has reappaered in Malmö“. The article tells of how; a) a Holocaust survivor has been called a lier by Malmö-schoolchildren b) the mayor Ilmar Reepalu has denied that Jews have been attacked, that it is no business of [...]

штрейкбрехер по имени Eirik Eiglad

Eirik Eiglad’s “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” was reviewed by Aftenposten’s Knut Olav Åmås on February 17th. Although Aftenposten was the first Norwegian newspaper to cover the book, it had at the time already been commented upon by Dutch, Finnish, Belgian, Spanish and US blogs. And now we find that on 17th – the very [...]

Attacked during riots - hurt for life

DagenMagazinet reports on how one of the men attacked during the January Gaza-riots of 2009 sustained injuries which will follow him for the rest of his life. Unauthorized translation:

— I was subjected to violence on two occasions. First I was beaten with the flagpole of an Israeli flag which the jew-haters had taken, and I [...]

Police worried over terror-threat level

NRK (State Broadcasting) reports that the head of PST, Norway’s Police Security Service, has expressed concern over the level of terror-threats against Norway.

Increased radicalization

Kristiansen tells of how PST has observed an increase in radicalization in certain muslim milieus.

– This worries us considerably, and it is an increasing problem also outside of Oslo.

According to PST these [...]

Key note speaker seized by police after threatening to shoot journalists

"There are people on their way to shoot you now"

Mohyeldeen Mohammed was the key note speaker of the demonstration on Friday, when approximately 3000 muslims demonstrated against Dagbladet for publishing a front-page story where Allah was depicted as a pig. Interestingly the front-page was connected to a story which Dagbladet was tipped on by [...]

Abid Raja on Islamisists: 'Norway has cause for concern'

Abid Raja (Liberals) has stated that Norway has reason for concern. Unauthorized translation from the internet edition of Verdens Gang, Norway’s largest daily:

An array of prominent Norwegian muslims today condemn the astonishing statement of how homosexuals must be killed.

An array of prominent muslims now confront his statements, and Liberal politician, lawyer and muslim Abid Raja [...]

Book review:

Eirik Eiglad, photo by Yngvild Hasvik

Z word blog has published Christian Tau’s review of Eirik Eiglad’s “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo”, which provides a horribly good read for only USD 15 over at Amazon. Excerpt from the review below, visit Z word blog for the entire post.

Anti-Jewish riots in Oslo

The 103 [...]

A friendly warning of terror-to-come

Will there be a “September 11th” on Norwegian soil if cartoons insulting Islam continue to be published?

Unauthorized translation from NRK (State Broadcasting).

At 3 PM new demonstrations against the publication of a cartoon of the prophed Muhammed commenced in Universitetsplassen. At 4 PM loud noises were heard at Egon restaurant on Plata by Oslo [...]

Young Turks hack Dagbladet over cartoon

The daily newspaper Dagbladet has been hacked after publishing a cartoon of Allah where the deity was depicted as a pig. Unauthorized translation from Dagbladet:

(Dagbladet.no) Yesterday evening Dagbladet.no broke apart as several Turkish IP-addresses opened the front page of db.no approximately five thousand times each during a short period of time.

The event occurred at 19:30 [...]

Book: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo

A new book on the riots of January 2009 is out. “The anti-jewish riots in Oslo” is written by Eirik Eiglad. Mr.Eiglad runs the journal Communalism, which defines its purpose as providing “a forum for the exposition of Communalism as a viable political alternative”.

I have just started dipping into the book and it looks promising. [...]

Israel chamber of commerce blocked by 'Blitzers'

The Blitz-house is financed with public money

We tipped Finnish Tundra Tabloids on this story and they got it out before we did. That’s Finnish efficiency for you. It explains why they have developed Nokia while we just found oil.

The situation is this: 1) Norway-Israel chamber of commerce organizes event at the Henie-Onstad center [...]

Spook bigwig: War on terror just begun

The head of PST – the Police Security Services in Norway is interviewed in this weekend edition (January 23/24th) of Dagens Næringsliv, a prominent and well respected business daily. She brings disturbing news. Unauthorized translation below:

Age of extremists. “Extreme Islamicism” appears in the first sentence in PST’s last threat-evaluation. And the security service believes that [...]

PFLP - a Norwegian cell?

PFLP logo from the web-site of Norwegian Red Youth (Rød Ungdom)

Peter Øvig Knudsen’s books on Blekingegadebanden – the Danish PFLP affiliated equivalent of Baader-Meinhof – has received quite a bit of attention in Norway. There has however not been any serious investigation of PFLP affiliated groups in Norway. It is frequently alleged – and [...]

Denmark's Baader Meinhof - Blekingegadebanden

PFLP operative Holger Jensen on holiday in Norway

Denmark’s so-called Blekingegadebande (The Blekinge Street Gang) consisted of a group of communists who supported the PFLP. Young, middle class Danes in the organization robbed, forged and kidnapped in order to supply the PFLP with guns and money. The picture above is from Peter Øvig Knudsen’s book [...]

Selbekk on Støre during cartoon-wars:

Editor Vebjørn Selbekk was left twisting in the wind after he published the Mohammed-cartoon in his newspaper Magazinet. Here he comments on his experiences in Dagsavisen (unauthorized translation):

– Støre himself probably sees that the cartoon-wars were not exactly his “finest hour”. Next time a Norwegian citizen is threatened upon his life for a perfectly legitimate [...]