• 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 […]

Sleeping with the enemy

Front cover of Helle Aarnes' "Tyskerjentene"

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love. Problem is, it’s WWII and the boy is a German soldier. Recent figures suggest that as many as 100 000 Norwegian women dropped their panties for the invading warriors of Nazi-Germany.

We Norwegian are good people but sometimes we are led astray. [...]

Document.no:’Inspirational and Painful Loss’

Is it a blog? Is it a grassroots movement? Is it a publishing house? Document.no is all of them and more. It also publishes in English. Here is an excerpt from “Inspirational and painful loss” on Norwegian casualties in Afghanistan:

A debate has been raised after the loss of four invaluable Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan. This [...]

'Churchill not significantly different from Hitler'

Screenshot from Morgenbladet, July 2010

The screenshot above is from Trond Berg Eriksen’s review of Nicholson Baker’s “Menneskerøyk” (Norwegian translation) in Morgenbladet. The review is fair enough except at times it is difficult to understand whether Eriksen is endorsing Baker’s stance or merely sketching out the book’s contents. This becomes especially important in a section [...]

Book: 'Jews on the run'

Book by war hero Ragnar Ulstein, from Det norske samlaget

736 Norwegian Jews, almost half the population, were sent to the killing fields of WWII. Only a few survived.

In the book “Jews on the run” WWII hero Ragnar Ulstein commemorates the heroes of the saga. And yes, there were heroes. Not enough [...]

Book on Labor and the Nazi occupation of Norway

Oliver H. Langeland's book on Labor and WWII

New historians are making a big fuss over the Shoah in Norway, arguing that the Norwegian Jews were sent to their deaths not by German occupiers, but by their fellow Norwegians. Now “Dømmer ikke” (Not in judgement)  a book by an old officer and resistance-man, Oliver H. [...]

Senterpartiet, Quisling and the Jews

The Bondepartiet which nurtured Vidkun Quisling is very much alive. Today it is named Senterpartiet, and it unashamedly advocates the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state though supporting the Palestinian “right of return”

The largely agrarian Senterpartiet (Center party) holds that Israel must return to the borders of 1967. The fact [...]

Winston Churchill illuminates value of Norwegian advice

Churchill & the Jews, (2007 McMillan press) is penned by Martin Gilbert, who has dozens of books to his name and was named official biographer of Winston Churchill in 1968. The book is a roller coaster ride through the life and times of a man who stood at the helm of things throughout some of [...]

Bjørn Westlie on the war of our fathers

Bjørn Westlie: "Father's war"

Bjørn Westlie is a Norwegian journalist and author. The son of a “frontkjemper”, one of thousands of Norwegian men who bore arms for the Reich, he has wrestled with anti-Semitism and WWII history for all his life. The graphic above show the cover of his book “Father’s war”. The unauthorized translation [...]

Norwegians and the Holocaust

Aftenposten.no today

Aftenposten.no reports on how historian Synne Corell claims that Norwegian historians have omitted going into detail on Norwegian cooperation with the Germans during the WWII occupation, and that this particularly holds true for the roles Norwegians played in carrying out the Holocaust. Unauthorized translation:

Corell does not desire to criticize the historical works she [...]

Norvège: un héros de la 2de Guerre mondiale réagit à l’antisémitisme

Ah, Gunnar “Kjakan” Sønsteby. A real Norwegian hero.

La négation de l’Holocauste et la haine des Juifs a essentiellement apparu chez les jeunes immigrants originaires du Moyen-Orient. Mais ce qui s’est passe ne doit pas être considéré comme un problème affectant une minorité. C’est un phénomène que toute la Norvège doit prendre au sérieux.”(Gunnar Sonsteby)

WWII hero calls for action against anti-Semitism

WWII hero Gunnar Sønsteby, better known under his nomme de guerre “The Jaw”, has seen anti-Semitism before. Now he calls for action against it. Unauthorized translation from Aftenposten’s article “Ber om aksjon mot jødehat” on April 8th, 2010, by journalist Halvor Tjønn:

There is only one road to walk: that [...]

From Marx to Quisling

Prominent Norwegians such as Kristin Halvorsen, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse are not actually doing anything new. They are merely part of a political tradition of the Norwegian left-wing which stretches back to at least the 1930-ies. One of the authors to deal with this aspect of Norwegian political history is Øystein Sørensen, who in his [...]

Author reacts to 'Mein Kampf' title of bestselling colleague

Author Bomann-Larsen reacts to "Mein Kampf" title of bestselling colleague

Bestselling Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård is working on a six-volume autobiography titled “Min Kamp” which translates quite nicely into the German “Mein Kampf”. This is worthy of attention not only because “Mein Kampf” is the title of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography, but because Mr.Knausgård [...]

Code cracked - spies listening everywhere

Loose lips sink ships

Until quite recently the more ludicrous aspects of the Norwegian debate on the Middle East were a closely kept national secret, shared only by the select few who mastered Norsk, a code originally developed by the Bavarian Illuminati. Now it appears that the code has been broken and that code-cracking foreigners [...]

Deceased: Leader of Warsaw uprising Marek Edelman

Marek Edelman z’l has passed away. Mr. Edelman was one of the leaders during the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. You can read more about him here.

Several prominent Norwegian citizens have compared Operation Cast Lead to the events in which Mr. Edelman participated. Among them are: leader of Rødt (Political party) Torstein Dahle, NORWAC [...]