• Document 15 calls on Jonas Gahr Støre to explain Senator Brownback’s letter
    "Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log" by John Charles Dollman On August 3rd  US Senator Brownback wrote a letter, expressing concern over Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism, to Norway’s ambassador to Washington DC. While this site published the letter on August 12th, Norwegian journalists failed to find it newsworthy. Members of the opposition […]
  • NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
    NRK reports on the Naqba without mentioning war which caused it Journalist Laila Ø. Bakken of the Norwegian State Broadcasting Authority NRK manages to report on how Abbas’ family fled during the “Naqba”, while completely omitting any mention of the 1948 war which caused the “Naqba”. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and […]
  • Letter from Minister of Defense denies boycott of Israel, claims ‘constructive dialogue’ with Israel
    Hans Olav Syversen from the Christian Democrats refers to a letter from the Minister of Defense Vårt Land today reports that the Christian Democrats (KrF) and Conservatives (Høyre) aim to stop Minister of Defense Grete Faremo (Labor) from boycotting Israeli companies on an individual basis. The article (above) refers to a letter from […]
  • NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations
    When Charles W. Freeman had to resign from a position with the Obama administration in March 2009, he blamed the Israel-Lobby. On Wednesday he visited NUPI in order to speak about US-Israel relations. Vårt Land reports, in an NTB article, that Freeman has as little faith in the current round of peace […]
  • Scandinavian democracy – a guided affair
    Screenshots from Norwegian newspapers Aftenposten and DagenMagazinet Not even in Scandinavia does democracy work flawlessly. Is there an invisible hand at work? In the screenshot above (left) we see an op-ed from yesterday’s Aftenposten, with Eirik Vatnøy from Civita, a liberal think tank, asking some rather poignant questions. Vatnøy points out that it appe […]
  • Washington Post on terrorism in Norway
    Three men were apprehended this summer on suspicion of terrorism. As the Washington Post points out, we Norwegians were told that we at no time have been in any danger whatsoever. Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls In late 2009, Jakobsen went to Norway’s Police Security Service and began providing information on Davud’s activities after what he […]
  • Protected: Norway suspects Israel unethical, invests in Turkmenistan
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. […]
  • JP mentions Norway: Has Europe learned from its past?
    In material terms, being Norwegian is like winning the lottery. Intellectually it is like living in a carnival. Once groupthink sets in there is nobody left to comment upon how it affects us, and prominent citizens can act bizarrely with impunity . The JP, which editor of Aftenposten Harald Stanghelle tells us is […]
  • Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism
    In Aslak Nore book “Ekstremistan” the author predicts that in the near future, Norway will be more mulit-cultural, for good and for worse. The reader is treated to some of the latter in Nore’s interview with a Norwegian convert to Islam, who reflects upon some of her formerly held beliefs. The following […]
  • Nous allons manger des pommes de terre israéliennes », annonce notre hôte
    This blog is not about Israel or the Norwegian Jews. It is about Norway’s perception of and relationship to Israel and Jews. Yet Norway is only one little piece in a larger puzzle. It is while trying to solve this puzzle that foreigners every now and then are brought to pay attention to us up […]

Ship of fools in search of skipper

Ship of fools, by H.Bosch

In medieval times, society heartlessly rid itself of the mad and the sad by paying mariners to take them away. In today’s Europe the inmates are running the asylums, and the asylums are crusading against Israel.

The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby, which our media corps does not acknowledge the existence of, [...]

Lobby sends ship to Gaza

Hamas rules Gaza. Hamas refers to "The protocols" in its charter. The Norwegian lobby will send them a supply ship.

The Norwegian Palestine-Lobby has no equal. It is by far the most efficient, powerful and well-organized network of its kind. It is now preparing to send a “humanitarian” ship to Gaza.  The initiative [...]

Review of Susan Abulhawa:'...political propaganda wrapped up as a novel...'

A literary review in Dagens Næringsliv on "Morning in Jenin"

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Nominate Manfred Gerstenfeld for Stray Spetalen's 'media victim' award

In Norway, Gerstenfeld is known for statements he has never made

Aftenposten’s Harald Stanghelle has called him “a blinded fanatic”. NRK’s Sidsel Wold has called him a “Norway-hater”. NTB has called him an “aging, right-wing Israeli”. He is known throughout Scandinavia for statements he has never made and beliefs he has never harbored. [...]

Norwegian newspaper claims Israel runs 'prison-camps'

The term “prison-camp” awakens very different connotations than the more neutral “prison”. Which is probably exactly why Fredrikstad Blad elects to use “prison-camp” in the article above, and not “prison”.

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Two weeks later: Newspapers still claims Mankell has been shot

Screenshot from iTromsø

It’s two weeks since Henning Mankell was falsely reported to have been shot during the IDF enforcement of the blockade of Hamas-run Gaza. Yet iTromsø has yet to withdraw the article above, which is still online. Does iTromsø know? Do they care? Is this particular example an exception to the rule, or [...]

Henning Mankell was on Mavi Marmara AND Sofia

Retriever (media analysis tool) shows us that the last two weeks, Norwegian newspapers have published 48 articles of Kyrgyzstan and 239 on Gaza.

The Norwegian media covers Israel more than all other ME states together. Provided that they make an equal amounts of mistakes for all nations covered, this means that the Norwegian media [...]

‘Supplyship’ Mavi Marmara evokes memory of ‘supplyship’ Tali

So the Mavi Marmara was infiltrated by militant activists who used the peaceniks as a shield, just like the Taliban does in Afghanistan where they are fighting Norwegians soliders. And as for the goods onboard the Mavi Marmara, the Hamas refuses to accept it, it didn’t amount to more than Israel provides on a regular [...]

Islamists operate out of University College, rector clueless

Screenshot from Verdens Gang

In May 2008 Islamnet invited Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni to speak at the University College of Oslo. Madni told his audience that Bush and the Jews were behind 9/11. Yet as late as in February 2010, rector Sissel Østberg refused to believe there were any extremists at her school. 

For the third time in six months the [...]

Lobby triumphant: 'In a sense it has been a success'

NRK reports that the three Norwegian flotilla participants are on their way home (screenshot above) and that Swedish author Henning Mankell feels the entire thing has been somewhat of a success. Unauthorized translation from NRK:

– Today we know that Israel is on her knees. The world’s reaction goes beyond all of our expectations. [...]

Journalist Asle Hansen makes nuclear mistake

Screenshot from Dagbladet.no

The screenshot above is from journalist Asle Hansen’s article in Dagbladet.no: “Israel wanted to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa“.  In reality, this is exactly what Israel did not want to do.

Asle Hansen’s article basically piggy-backs an article by Chris McGreal in the Guardian on Monday, May 24th. What McGreal’s [...]

Liers in our midst

Book by Benjamin Rødner, 1976

Did Jews really force Arab women to parade naked through Jerusalem in 1948?

Benjamin Rødner published his book “Løgnere iblandt oss” (Liers in our midst) in 1976. The book,  now freely available as a PDF from MIFF, revealed how the AKP-ml affiliated Palestinakomiteen consistently presented falsified information on events [...]

Cunning comedian reveals Lysenkoism, is cast as 'anti-semite'

Screenshot from Dagbladet review of Harald Eia's book

The screenshot above is from Dagbladet’s review of  the book “Hjernevask” (Brainwashed) by comedian and sociologist Harald Eia  and co-author Ole Martin Ihle. The book, published on the heels of a popular television series, is a cursory investigation into the nature versus nurture debate. One would like [...]

NRK: 'Israel filled house with civilians and blew it up'

Screenshot of NRK news, from SMA

Source: Center against Anti-Semitism.

The screenshot above is from NRK news on May 11th. The item reports on how Israel, during the Gaza war, allegedly evacuated 100 civilians into a house and then blew it up. Mads Gilbert wrote about a similar event in his book “Eyes in Gaza”. SMA [...]

Mental note to self: Eia-critics suddenly conspicuously defensive of Jews

DO remember to check this: MORGENBLADET gives funnyman Eia’s book  on nature vs. nurture  a scathing review. DAGBLADET does the same. BOTH insinuate that Eia’s book is toying around with anti-Semitic stereotypes. But NEITHER of these two newspapers is usually particularly defensive of Jews. NEITHER of them have, for instance, reviewed the two most recent [...]