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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Norwegian newspapers find HRW reports of Israeli atrocities to be highly credible, yet lag behind when it comes to the political sympathies of HRW staff. According to the Tundra Tabloids, HRW official Joe Stork voiced support for the Munich massacre, and as Danish daily Berlingske Tidende now reports, HRW analyst Marc Garlasco has been suspended [...] Unauthorized translation from Norway’s largest daily Verdens Gang (VG) on August 25th. If a Nazi-sympathizer could risk his life to save a jewish child, then there is always hope. Maybe gradually more people will open their eyes to how there would not be any talk of boycott of Israel if it was an arab muslim [...] From the paper edition of Norway’s largest daily Verdens Gang (VG). Notice how the section chief feared that taking in more children would encourage anti-Semitism. Oddly reminiscent of Dagsavisen’s Mr.Iversen, who the other day warned that Israeli reaction to Boström’s blood-libel story was rabid and might encourage anti-Semitism. Mr. Iversen even had the audacity to [...] In The Jerusalem Post on July 26th Yehuda Bauer comments upon how Norway is criticized for celebrating Knut Hamsun and heading the ITF for Holocaust Remembrance – in the same year. Bauer suggests that such criticism is misplaced and is concerned over “an increasing Jewish tendency to fight… friends instead of enemies”. Regrettably, Bauer is as [...] Haaretz notifies us that Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is critisizing Norway. This puzzles some Norwegians while it makes other Norwegians extremely angry. The puzzled go: “What, Hamsun again? We’ve discussed him all our lives?” The angry go… well, go and read Aftenposten or have a look at our favorite Haaretz talkback: If Lieberman knew just [...] Here is another article on the controversy over Knut Hamsun, Holl embraces controversy in Norway in Metropolis, by journalist Tim Moran. It’s a well written piece on the architect of the Hamsun centre Steven Holl which also manages, like so many other foreign articles, to cover in one swoop what we Norwegians argue over throughout [...] Prominent Norwegians claim that Cast Lead was “similar to” or even “worse than” what happened in Warsaw during WWII, among them: NORWAC doctor Mads Gilbert, former first secretary – now consul – Trine Lilleng, mayor of Tromsø Arild Hausberg and leader of Rødt (Red – a socialist political party) Torstein Dahle. As none of them [...] The Norwegian ITF chairmanship commenced on 17 March 2009. Yet on the streets of Oslo we see nothing of it. On the webpages of the Norwegian Embassy in Israel, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre is quoted as saying “The mentalities and stereotypes that led to the Holocaust have not gone away“. Unfortunately this is true. [...] Mayor of Tromsø Arild Hausberg, NORWAC doctor Mads Gilbert and former first secretary, now consul Trine Lilleng have all compared operation Cast Lead to the Warsaw ghetto of WWII. In spite of Norway’s role as head of the ITF for Holocaust Remembrance this year, there has been little debate over this and none since the [...] In Verdens Gang – Norway’s largest daily – on Saturday August 15th we can find the following letter from a reader: Hamsun – year: So much is written about Hamsun’s political views. Can one not soon finish with that debate, and instead look at the positive aspects of his person. Sit down and read his books, [...] The Guardian, Saturday August 8th, journalist Jonathan Glancey covers the contemporary Hamsun debate in the article Norwegian Wood. Glancey is one of the few journalists to pick up on the invitation of Bodil Børset (Hamsun Centre) to Efraim Zuroff (Wiesenthal Centre). In this invitation, which was issued as a letter (in Norwegian) to Aftenposten (a [...] Although the debate over Knut Hamsun is an international one, the Norwegian Hamsun debate appears to be an in-house affair. Norwegian newspapers make little mention of foreign perspectives on the issues raised. When foreign criticism is mentioned, it is usually angrily rejected, as when Aftenposten states that the thoughts of the “Israeli far right… are [...] |
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