(August 15, 2011) Correction, a reader has commented that this article originally appeared in Jpost December 2008. I found it on Jpost on August 12, dated August 12 2011, a date I took at face value. I do apologize for this mistake. However, the letter as such is a good one and shows the...
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 […]
terror and threats
Weird messages received by MIFF
Konrad Myrland, the daily manager at miff.no, has published a short article on some weird messages they received in the aftermath of 22/7 (unauthorized translation): Will there be more acceptance for Israel’s version? Published: Tirsdag 9. august 2011 By Conrad Myrland Norway will respond to terror with more openness, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said...
Grad rockets hit Kiriat Gat
Our peace loving friends in Gaza have upgraded their technology and are now trying out their new toys on hapless citizens in Israel. Lets hope failed flotilla sailor Aksel Hagen finds the time ripe to modify that part of his party’s political platform he now realizes is poorly nuanced , as well as permitting...
The faces of a most meaningless tragedy
Here at NIJ, we are still stunned after that unfathomable and despicable act of slaughtering innocent kids at a summer camp, and people getting ready to go home after work to enjoy a weekend with family and friends. These are the victims that we could not afford to loose as we extend, here too,...
Adios a un grande, farewell to Facundo Cabral
A great troubadour, perhaps the last of his kind, was brutally shot and murdered in Guatemala City this morning. Facundo Cabral, a stellar performer in all of the Americas, but also in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries and in Africa, was declared a world messenger of peace by UNESCO in 1996. Hit hard...
Another under-employed MP who is wasting public money on Gaza holiday
Aksel Hagen is a Member of Parliament representing our dear friends SV, that midget party that sold its soul to get into position of power, making Nick Clegg look steadfast and a man of principle in comparison. Our friend Aksel got into an elected position thanks to the particular system of equalization seat mandate,...
PLFP butcher 20 Palestinians at Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus; PLO official “Once again, the Palestinian struggle has fallen victim to the agenda of an Arab regime.”
On the heels of embarrassing episode of uncritical parroting Syrian state media, the Norwegian press corps have either not bothered to check what else goes on in Syria, or are very reluctant to show the other side of realities on the ground. LA times brings a harrowing account of the blood bath that ensued...
Daniel Viflic z”l – The town of Hamar pays for flotilla, while Intl. Red Cross says no humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Sadly, Daniel Viflic’s life was cut brutally short. By a heat seeking missile from Gaza. Before him, the entire Fogel family was murdered, and before them hundreds, thousands have had their lives cut short, leaving families truncated, devastated by their losses. Another man also had his life prematurely and cruelly cut short. Vittiorio Arrigoni,...
Explain me this, Chaudry, Håheim, Trettebergstuen, Tajik!
As you plan to drag the good name of Norway through the mud, just to satisfy a truly morbid inclination of yours, please have a look at this: This is the school bus where a 16 year old boy on his way home from school was hit by an anti-tank missile. The bus was...
More stupid talk from SV
Oh, now it has just gone from bad to horrible to a real stinker. After Solhjells pathetic attempt to claim that bomb Israel proposal was in fact only a horrible misunderstanding, SV leader decided to enter the fray to clarify what SVs position really is Now that they have shed their cloak of hypocrisy,...
Dumb and dumber; Socialist Left daft darling says it is all a misunderstanding
In what must have been a night to remember, Socialist Left vice chairman Bård Vegard Solhjell, now wants to have us believe that the verbatim quote from his own unanimous editorial committee is a horrible mistake: The credibility of the world community in its confrontation with the Gadafi regime is undermined when there is...
Socialistic Left dubious moral tradeoff for bombing Libya: Use armed force against Israel
The SV annual convention goes to vote. The deranged junior partner in the current government coalition will among other proposals vote on a motion to use armed force against Israel should it attack Gaza. The motion is the blood money required to pay off SV card carrying members who find it hard to accept...
Phosphorous shells hit Southern Israel
Just in case anybody had any doubt, Israel is subjected to acts of terrorism on a daily basis, latest travesty is reports of phosphorous shells shot over Southern Israel where hundreds of thousands live. Already Israelis have sustained 2 grad rockets over Beer Sheva, 1 massive bomb in the heart of Jerusalem and now...
1 dead, 39 injured in Jerusalem; 4 explosions in Ashkelon, Hamas cheers
It is laudable that PA prime minister Fayyad now condemns these attacks, but condemning after the fact is not the same as preventing the terrorism in the first place Speaking one way in English, another in Arabic also cuts no ice, we are up to over 60 incidents of terror in less than 2...
25 hurt in J’lem, 1 in Beer Sheva, Ashdod also gets the friendly neighbor salute
What’s with the peace loving Palestinians? Coming up with all sorts of pretexts to not sit down face to face to negotiate, and while they gain some symbolic support for their cause they go ahead and fumble it themselves, since sooner rather than later they actually have to negotiate. I have no doubt that...
Missing in action- Ammar Al-Hamdam
Norwegian citizen, journalist and photographer Ammar Al-Hamdam is missing in Libya, having been captured by Libya’s own Saif Al-Islam, you know the guy brandished by PC progressives to be the nice guy, tragically trapped between the dream for a new deal in Libya and his fathers lunacy. Now efforts are focused on securing Ammars...
Stop the press: Dagbladet brings news from Israel
Updating our previous entry, where we suggested that the Norwegian press is embarrassed by its failure to investigate and write on dismal human rights in Arab, African and Asian countries and therefore cannot bring itself to write about Israel being bombarded with grad rockets. Utter rubbish, Dagbladet has actually published a piece on Israel...
50 bombs a day keeps the press corps away
Obviously, on a scale from 1 – 10, events unfolding in Libya, Japan; mounting pressure in Syria, Yemen, Saudi are very valid reasons for press to momentarily have abandoned their otherwise pathological obsession with Israel. On the other hand, maybe the news of more than 50 rockets launched against civil targets in Israel proper...
With love from your friendly Gaza neighborhood
Israeli media informs us that Israeli navy has intercepted a vessel with arms heading to Gaza via Alexandria with pit stop in Turkey. Consignors: Iran and Syria. Consignee: Hamas. Intended target: Israeli civilians in undisputed Israeli territory. At the same time, Israeli media also informs us of Hamas breaking up a demo by pro-unity protestors,...
CPD for “journalists”
A guide for the perplexed, the UN definition of terrorism: 1. The States Members of the United Nations solemnly reaffirm their unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism, as criminal and unjustifiable, wherever and by whomever committed, including those which jeopardize the friendly relations among States and peoples and threaten the...