Aftonbladet’s Donald Boström admits he does not have any evidence of how the IDF allegedly steals organs from people, yet insists that Israel must prove her innocence. Which is an interesting way of looking at things. Here is an unauthorized translation from journalist Martin Schori in Swedish Dagensmedia: The journalist who wrote the much...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- Happy 17th of MayOnce more, we gather under our flag to celebrate our freedom. Each 17th of May, the Jewish community in Oslo organize a formal and serene commemoration of Henrik Wergeland, the son of one of the member of the Constituent Assembly for our Constitution. In its original version, our Constitution was shamed by the exclusion of Jews and Jesuits in Norway, som […]
- “Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too badThe synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the speeches Støre and Stoltenberg with no end to the flowery assurances, this is what it comes down to: Jews should be content feeling prett […]
- The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2lifted from Vårt Land Synagogues receive NOK 7.2 million for security The money goes towards securing doors, upgrade the monitoring system and setting up a security fence. The Government proposes in the revised national budget to allocate 7.2 million forsecurity at the Jewish Religious Community (DMT). - No one should have to be afraid to exercise their rel […]
- Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boyAftenposten today published an op-ed from “Daniel,” a 17-year old Norwegian student who happens to be Jewish. He feels surrounded by antisemitic attitudes, ranging from comments by a fellow video game player (“just pretend they’re Jews when you aim at them”), to the inevitable “so you support killing babies?” when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inabi […]
- PalCom action ‘small and unsuccessful’lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee’s action was “small and unsuccessful” Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel’s Dead Sea products in Oslo last Tuesday (May 16) evening. The police were notified in advance and got them quickly away from the place. By Conrad Myrland Published: 16/05/201 […]
- VG’s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on IsraelAstrid Meland published an OpEd in VG on May 14, which currently is not online. MIFF has published a review article online, from where I have lifted the following: Astrid Meland believes Israel’s critics in Norway are victim of a collective neurosis, where you turn a blind eye to much worse breaches of human rights by other states. - Unethical focus on Isra […]
- Stand up, stand up – for the Hebrew MamitaIf I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say – WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none"; […]
- Oopsie – Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitismlifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free – regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the ‘mad professor’ let it rip, as is evident by the details of this op-ed. Why did not the Norwegian intelligentia react at an earlier stage? Did they perhaps agree with the previous […]
- Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the policeLifted from miff.no What can I say? Bravo! MIFF is doing an incredibly important job and luckily their hard efforts are rewarded with a healthy growth in their memberships. Maybe readers of this blog could be entreated to find a way of supporting MIFF? By the way, I have no relation to MIFF, personally or professionally – this is just a courtesy call to reco […]
- What Karsten Tveit’s award really signifiesOdd Karsten Tveit wins the Gullruten lifetime award for his propaganda news coverage from the Middle East. When it comes to correspondents in the Middle East sent by NRK (the governmental broadcasting organization financed by a surcharge on owning a television), it’s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest: you can endlessly discuss who is worse. Bu […]
Spin and smear
Editorial: Gust of Swedish jew-hatred
Not much about the Boström-scandal in the Norwegian media as of yet. There’s one cautious NTB article which has just started to do the rounds and a mention in Stavanger Aftenblad – a regional daily. DagenMagazinet doesn’t mince words however, here’s an unauthorized translation of their editorial (today): A gust of Swedish jew-hatred Donald...
Benny Morris: “Kåre Willoch lies”
There is unfortunately no “anti-Norwegian” smear campaign to blame. When Norway looks bad it’s because prominent Norwegians, in their endeavours to smear Israel, occassionally go wrong and smear themselves by accident. The most recent example is Trettebergstuen’s attribution of a quote from this site (“In addition to being gay, Trettebergstuen is fiercely secular”) to...
Did HRW official support Munich massacre?
According to Tundra Tabloids, senior HRW official Joe Stork supported the Munich massacre. TT has posted a translated article by Ben-Dror Yemini in the Hebrew newspaper Ma’ariv, p 13, on 16.8.09, which is copied below. If this story proves to be true, the Norwegian newspapers which took the HRW claims of “white flag killings”...
Dagbladet claims: “Mossad wanted to murder Jan Guillou”
On Friday, August 7th, Dagbladet brings the story – which is not attributed to any journalist – of how Mossad allegedly offered to murder Swedish author Jan Guillou after Mr. Guillou had written an article about a Swedish “spy operation”: Israelsk etterretningstjeneste tilbød seg å drepe den svenske forfatteren og journalisten Jan Guillou. Mossad...
Anette Trettebergstuen confuses Norwegian blog with Israeli newspaper
We all make mistakes. All the time. But what if an Israeli politician, say Lieberman, had made the mistake Anette Trettebergstuen just made, and mistaken an Israeli blog for a Norwegian newspaper? What if a journalist had snooped that up and built a little story around it? Remember in March, how tolerant Norwegians were...
How not to market Norwegian fjords
Comparing Gaza to the Warsaw ghetto of WWII is an act of holocaust distortion. Among the prominent Norwegians who have indulged in this shameful act, in the very same year as Norway heads the Task Force of Holocaust Remembrance, are Mayor of Tromsø Arild Hausberg, Doctor Mads Gilbert and politician Torstein Dahle (Rødt-Red). With their...
Gunpowder treason and plot…
Guy Fawkes night is a bizarre event where good folk celebrate how a Catholic conspiracy to blow up Parliament was foiled in 1605. Bonfire merrily crackling away, people sipping at bottles, the flames licking up against the efegee, then taking hold… parents encouraging their little children to hiss and boo at the defenceless strawman…...
TV2 alters webpage during PFU media complaints hearing
Something very strange has recently happened. The article above, which is based on an interview, has been switched for the article below in a non-event most people will not even notice. Except for one thing: TV2′s original article above, by journalist Fredrik Græsvik, has been taken to the PFU (Norwegian media complaints hearing) by...
Columnist upset over non-existent Israeli “anti-arab” weapon
Morten Ströksnes is a respected Norwegian journalist and author. Like many other respected Norwegians of his trade he is willing to believe most accusations made against Israel without any unneccessary contemplation or query. In 1998 The Sunday Times reported that Israel was using Apartheid-era South-African “anti-negro technology” in order to develop an “ethno-bomb”...
Norwegian judge suspects Israel of genocide
Imagine if an Israeli judge suspected Norway of being guilty of genocide in Afghanistan, where Norway is at war. Imagine if this Israeli judge participated in an investigative committee backed by a circle of states determined to destroy Norway as a political entity. Imagine that this judge had not evidence, just allegations of hearsay,...
Hamas base in Gilbert’s hospital
Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse became national heros for their work at Shifa-hospital during the recent war in Gaza. Gilbert and Fosse insisted that the hospital was not infiltrated by Hamas, that there were only injured civilians in the hospital, but that they even so feared that also the hospital would be...
Media manipulation in Norway
From SPME: In autumn 2008 my book Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews appeared in English. It has since been mentioned many times in Norwegian media. Critics so far have been unable to find mistakes in it. Much publicity is however given to a variety of statements falsely attributed to me....
Norwegian Ambassador gilds the rose
On April 2nd the Norwegian Ambassador to Israel, Jakken Bjørn Lian, writes to the Jerusalem Post (see below) about the Gaza-march in Olso on January 8th, in which the Norwegian Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen took part. Lian describes the march as : “… a dignified and peaceful event”. Jakken’s statement is in alignment with the...
The propaganda machine
Hilde Henriksen Waage is not the only Norwegian academic who believes in the power of the pro-Israel propaganda machine. In today’s Adresseavisa, a daily focusing on the Trondheim area, Professor Morten Levin writes: The attacks against Rita Ottervik and Håkon Gullvåg are not unique. Such attacks are part of the daily amount of propaganda...
Media claims: Little Norway duped and smeared by Israel
Hilde Henriksen Waage’s claims of Norway having fallen victim to an Israeli smear campaign have so far not met with massive resistance. The political left has after all told Norwegians about Israeli PR before, so what is one to believe? Even so, the fact that the boycott of Israel so far has been a...
Circling the wagons
The Jerusalem Post has printed and withdrawn articles on anti-Semitism in Norway. Twice. The first version of the article claimed that the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Kristin Halvorsen from the Socialist Left (SV), had taken part in a pro-Gaza march where she shouted “Death to the jews”. Of course she never did any such...
VG:’Right to admit Jew-critics’
The screenshot above is from the article “Right to admit Jew-critics” by Lars Akerhaug in Norway’s largest daily Verden Gang. The article covers one of the “dialogue-meetings” arranged at the prestigious house of Litterature in Oslo following the riots in January 2009. On the picture above you see speaker Muhammed Ali Chisti elaborating on...
Vilified: telling lies about Israel
Here is a film clip which comes warmly recommended by Ilya Meyer, a former member of Peace Now. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";
And so the plot thickens…
On March 1st Manfred Gerstenfeld was quoted in 20 Norwegian newspapers for saying that “Norway is the most anti-semitic country in Europe” and “Norwegians are barbaric and uncivilized”. The quotes were based on an interview in TV2 by journalist Fredrik Græsvik. Naturally, the Norwegian people reacted with disgust. Did this affect the perceptions of...