• 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 […]

Nordic bloggers show anti-Israel media bias to be Nordic phenomenon

Graphic from Tundra Tabloids

This site has repeatedly demonstrated how the Norwegian media is biased against Israel, among other here. Now the Tundra Tabloids (Finland) and Sweden, Israel and the Jews (Sweden) and Ilya Meyer (Sweden) have made similar findings.

Ilya Meyer excerpt

In an average month of 30 days, there are never more than 3 days [...]

The silence of the Swedes

Norwegian author and journalist  Bjørn Gabrielsen appears to be in the habit of leading with his chin. Just the other week he questioned how his colleague  Erlend Loe had lent his voice to the Palestinian narrative at a demonstration outside the Israeli embassy. At the demonstration, which was organized by the AKP-ml affiliated [...]

Lars Vilks' web-site hacked

Lars Vilks infamous cartoon. Not very dangerous.

Yesterday Lars Vilks was physically attacked. Now NRK reports his web-site has been hacked. So here you go, here is the infamous Mohammed-as-a-hound-dog. Read more on always excellent Sweden, Israel and the Jews. Finland’s own “raging bull” Tundra Tabloids has loads of material on Vilks, including an exclusive [...]

Neue Zurcher Zeitung on anti-Semitism in Norway, Sweden

Neue Zurcher Zeitung is one of the larger European newspapers. In the article Nahost im hohen Norden journalist Aldo Keel examines anti-Semitism in Norway and Sweden.

Aldo Keel ⋅ In Norwegen sorgen Fernsehreportagen über Judenhass an Schulen für Aufsehen. Da klagt ein Vater, halbwüchsige Muslime hätten seinen Sohn erhängen wollen, weil er Jude sei. Lehrer sprechen [...]

State television NRK broadcasts on anti-Semitism in Norway

Forces of evil are moving.

Today state television NRK broadcast  on anti-Semitism in Norway. The broadcast, which was approximately five minutes long, was put together by NRK journalist Tormod Strand and sent during prime time as part of the national news at 7 pm. There was an introduction on the state of affairs in Malmö, Sweden, [...]

Document.no: Pogroms in Oslo

Document.no is more than a blog, it is a community. Whatsmore it is intelligent, well-mannered and subsequently growing, which makes a lot of people somewhat worried. Document.no now offers a lengthy post on Norwegian author Eirik Eiglad’s book “The anti-jewish riots in Oslo”. Unauthorized translation from Pogroms in Oslo:

Researchers and the police can say: “But [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wall Street Journal on Malmö anti-Semitism

Do not go gently into that horrid night

The Wall Street Journal does not often acknowledge the existence of the Scandinavian countries. It does so now. The scandalous events in Malmö has seen to that. Perhaps soon, WSJ will pick up on the situation in Norway. God knows we have the material.

Excerpt from the article [...]

New blog:Malmö mayor blames Israel-Lobby

From left: Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Tip of Denmark to the south.

The Swedish city of Malmö is increasingly becoming an example of how the multicultural society is not intended to work. Rather than getting along nicely, Malmö has lately been witnessing increasing levels of muslim anti-Semitism. According to Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, who previously has [...]

Aftenposten covers anti-Semitism in Malmö

Aftenposten today publishes a story on anti-Semitism in Malmö. On the one hand this is good: Aftenposten is one of Norway’s largest newspapers and the situation in Malmö has up to now received little – if any – attention from the Norwegian media. On the other hand this is old news – why are Norwegian [...]

Norwegian company gets contract in Malmö

The Norwegian media insists on not covering the anti-Semitic incidents in Malmö. They do however mention the city in other contexts. The latest mentions of Malmö in Norway are: 1) Malmö aviation wins Grand Travel Award for tenth time 2) Swedish contract to Goodtech and 3) Man killed in Malmö center. None of these even [...]

Anti-Semitism in Malmö obvious to entire world - except Norway

Skånskan, a regional Swedish newspaper

The screenshot above is from Skånskan, a Swedish newspaper, and lists the articles that newspaper has published on anti-Semitism in Malmö. There is quite a few of them. Blogger Ilya Meyer lists foreign media which are covering the situation;  The Local, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, 5T Jewish Times , CFCA, WJC, [...]

Norway ignores Malmö

Actually Malmö is getting a fair bit of attention from the Norwegian medai – as Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård is residing there. As for the debate concerning anti-Semitism in Malmö, the only Norwegian media to touch it are the bloggers at Document.no.

Ilya Meyer, a Swedish blogger, presents the situation very well in Sweden at [...]

Document.no on Malmö: The Jews are again the canary-birds

The establishment ignores not only Document.no’s Hans Rustad, but the issues that he deals with. This is hugely unfortunate. An excerpt from The Jews are again the canary-birds:

It is true: Jews are leaving Malmö and many are leaving Sweden. They dare not live there, first [...]