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	<title>Norway, Israel and the jews</title>

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		<title>Happy 17th of May</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once 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, something Henrik Wergeland fought tirelessly to  overturn. His had work was crowned with success in 1851, 6 years after his death. The Jewish  community erected a memorial soon after his death, in deep gratitude over his tireless struggle  for human as well as civic rights and  freedom. This year, after the gruesome events of 22 of July, let us just rejoice in the childlike simplicity  and heartfelt joy Henrik Wergeland also inspired us &#8211; our  unique way of celebrating  our  Constitution Day &#8211; with children armed with flags symbolizing the strong faith we have in  liberal values such as personal freedom and tolerance. linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Minister of justice&#8221; to Jews in Oslo: too bad</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The synagogue in Oslo &#8211; already one of the most fortified structures in Norway &#8211; 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 pretty safe. Norway&#8217;s national budget is running enormous surpluses, but we can&#8217;t afford to keep Jews safe when they attend religious services or community events. The supposed reason? It&#8217;s the landlord&#8217;s responsibility to secure its buildings. In this case a congregation of just over 1000 souls. The alternative would be to shut down. It is impossible to know where the NOK 21 million came from, or what the NOK 7 million will accomplish. What threats the synagogue faces is partly unknowable, partly a secret. Likewise is it difficult to know what vulnerabilities remain with the NOK 14 million shortfall. Faremo throws the synagogue a rubber bone, though: a consultation with PST, the wingclipped Norwegian &#8220;security police.&#8221; Which is probably worth as much as the coffee offered to these cops after the synagogue (we hope) has had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[lifted 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 religion in Norway, Justice Minister Grete Faremo says. A one off allocation. She says this grant came in addition to a previous grant that was given to the Jewish community in 2006. - However, I would emphasize that this is a one-time grant. The Safety Act maintains that it  is the landlord himself who is responsible for the security in own premises, Faremo says. The Jewish community has the same right to a general police protection as all other citizens and organizations in Norway. The Ministry of  Justice and Public Security has an ongoing dialogue with the Police Security Services and the Police Directorate to ensure that it is safeguarded. Shooting. In both 2006 and 2009, the Jewish community received financial support from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. In 2006 a one-time support of 4.95 million was allocated for security measures for the community centers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boy</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aftenposten today published an op-ed from &#8220;Daniel,&#8221; 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 (&#8220;just pretend they&#8217;re Jews when you aim at them&#8221;), to the inevitable &#8220;so you support killing babies?&#8221; when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inability of his teachers to do anything &#8211; anything at all &#8211; about the use of &#8220;Jew&#8221; in classroom settings in the same way as &#8220;fuck.&#8221; What do you figure are the chances this young man will stay in Norway when he grows up? I am sure everyone &#8211; absolutely everyone &#8211; will gasp in horror at this letter. It will be &#8220;sad,&#8221; &#8220;unacceptable,&#8221; etc. A few will say this publicly, and many will say it in public: Israel must take at least some of the blame, being such an awful country and all that. In other words, Israel should recognize its responsibility for Jews worldwide, and stop defending itself do less of whatever it is that pisses people off. Now the people who say these things will readily concede that the 17-year old can&#8217;t be held responsible for Israel&#8217;s (real and imagined) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PalCom action &#8216;small and unsuccessful&#8217;</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee&#8217;s action was &#8220;small and unsuccessful&#8221; Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel&#8217;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: 16/05/2012, at. 9:18 am, Updated: 16/05/2012 at. 12:28 pm - The fact that  MIFFs police complaint was publicly known in advance gave positive results and contributed low participation in the action, says a source. On the organizations Facebook about 70 participants had registered as attending, while more than 30 people had said &#8220;maybe&#8221;. The actual number of participants was about 10 people . - The protesters caused some minor  vandalism, which will be reported, says the source. The vandalism was similar to previous campaigns by the PalCom sticking &#8220;Boycott Israel&#8221; notes on the Dead Sea products&#8217; packaging. &#8221;vandalism such as the unlawful damage, injury, making unusable or forfeit an object that is wholly or partially owned by another is punishable by Law,&#8221; according to the Penal Code.  Read other Norwegian laws that are relevant for the Palestine Committee  bully and boycott campaigns. The police were quickly on the spot with three cars, and gave the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VG&#8217;s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on Israel</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astrid 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&#8217;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 Israel - It is ethically unsustainable to focus more on the best country in the Middle East than all the other, writes Astrid Meland, political commentator in VG. &#8221;It&#8217;s indescribable much worse elsewhere.&#8221; By Conrad Myrland Published: 14/05/2012, at. 10:01 am, Updated: 14/05/2012 at. 10:08 am In today&#8217;s (14/5 2012) VG, Israel is again the focus in one of Norway&#8217;s largest newspapers.&#8221;Israel, Israel, Israel,&#8221; is the title of an oepd article on page 2 and 3 But this time it is not the same old lesson. This time,  Astrid Meland teaches  critics of Israel in Norway a lesson. Blown fuses Meland begins by pointing out some of the worst results of the over focus on Israel. &#8221;Israel is the worst country in the world,&#8221;  the leader of the trade union council said recently. On Women&#8217;s day and 1 May, Israel, often as the only country in the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stand up, stand up &#8211; for the Hebrew Mamita</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say &#8211; WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";]]></description>
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		<title>Oopsie &#8211; Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitism</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[lifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free &#8211; regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the &#8216;mad professor&#8217; 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 diatribes, equally distasteful as the recent recommendation to read the Protocol of the Elders of Zion? Academia’s Jew haters Op-ed: Academic world has become vehicle for promoting anti-Semitic libel in guise of anti-Zionism Asaf Romirowsky Published: 05.15.12, 18:00 / Israel Opinion In a recent lecture at the University of Oslo, Norwegian sociologist Professor Johan Galtung claimed there was a possible connection between the terrorist responsible for the massacre of youths in Norway last summer and the Mossad. “The Jews control US media, and divert for the sake of Israel,” he said. Galtung added that one of the factors behind the anti-Semitic sentiment that led to Auschwitz was the fact that Jews held influential positions in German society. He also recommended reading the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Coming from one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the police</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 02:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McGonagall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lifted 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 &#8211; this is just a courtesy call to recognize their hard work, I often pinch their stories&#8230; MIFF reports the Palestine Committee to the police ahead of  planned action in Oslo Today the PalCom is planning a campaign to prevent legitimate sales in Oslo shops. MIFF reports the organizers to the police and ask them to prevent provocateurs to gain access to the shops. By Conrad Myrland Published: 15/05/2012, at. 7:00 am, Updated: 15/05/2012 at. 7:39 am Today delivers With Israel for Peace (MIFF) the following to the police in Oslo: The complaint On Tuesday May 15 at. 17.00 the Palestine Committee has announced an &#8220;action against Ahava stores in Oslo.&#8221; Participants are invited to attend Grønland 12 at. 17.00.There is reason to believe that the provocateurs will leave this location after a short time, to seek out a number of shops which sell Ahava products. By Tuesday 15 May at. 08.09 were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Karsten Tveit&#8217;s award really signifies</title>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Odd 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&#8217;s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest:  you can endlessly discuss who is worse. But listening to (Odd) Karsten Tveit is an experience on its own, because this is a guy who has long since come to the conclusion that verifiable facts matter far less than his interpretation of them. It would be accurate to say that he&#8217;s a mouthpiece for the rejectionist wing of Fatah, but it would be an incomplete characterization. He&#8217;s too glib, too self-righteous, and too overconfident to be the kind of spokesperson who puts up a brave front. He&#8217;s oblivious to the fact that human events are full of uncertainty. The only excuse for giving him any kind of award but a pink slip is that the pickings are slim. There are excellent Norwegian journalists, of course, but only a few. And those who are good are largely craftsmen, plying their trade by putting news first, their own faces second. But like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW DOES THIS AFFECT MEDIA IMPARTIALITY? SIX IN TEN JOURNALISTS VOTE LEFTIST</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One might want to reflect on the wider ramifications of this is a country where the press is massively supported by the Government, and where the Labour press increasingly is buying up whatever remains of independent and small local newspapers? SIX IN TEN JOURNALISTS VOTE LEFTIST TV2 Nyhetene 2012 05 10, No stated author Summary. Political views of Norwegian journalists have been polled, shows clear left wing slant. Leftist fringe party “Reds”, with no mandates in the Storting would have 13 mandates if only journalists had voting rights; Progressives (in real life having 41 mandates) would receive none. The poll, however, shows the situation to be even more lacking in balance in Sweden and Denmark linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";]]></description>
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		<title>ISRAELI UNION, OVER WHAT?</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISRAELI UNION, OVER WHAT? Aftenposten 2012 05 11, Kjell Dragnes Divisions. The heat has been turned up yet one more notch in what is usually a hot-tempered political debate. Opinions are divided as what the purpose of the recent Center-Right coalition really is. Israeli politicians are not known over using kid gloves when referring to opponents and their policies. The newly created government, endorsed by the Knesset on Wednesday is no exception. Verbal attacks on PM Benjamin Netanyahu of the Conservative Likud have flourished; and even more attacks have been launched at Shaul Mofaz of Centrist Kadima. “Mofaz has sold his soul to the devil”, Benjamin Ben Eliezer of the Labor party thundered. The leader of left wing Meretz, Zahava Gal On, attacked both. Her representation of Mofaz’ Kadima: “A rotten apple”. Such statements are telling something about just how controversial the new grand coalition between these political opponents is; however, it also reflects on the fundamental uncertainties over to what is its purpose. External and internal. Is this a preparation to an Israeli attack on the Iranian’s nuclear facilities? Is it an attempt to meet the Palestinians over a deadlocked conflict? Are internal political issues, like the disputed settlements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cheek of the Ambassador</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 18:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind boggles. Does His Excellency really think that newspaper readers around the world suffer from some massive reading comprehension deficit, or is he just trying to take the mickey? Whereas I too, am proud of my country, and sincerely believe that the anti-Israeli sentiments expressed by our political echelons (as well as a few mad professors) Only days after the ADL lambasted our PM for his participation in May Day events which featured vile anti-Israeli sentiments, and after minister Kristin Halvorsen responded with self-righteous fury in stead of arguments when confronted with claims that the the political Left in Norway passively accepts anti-Semitism skimpily dressed up as anti-Israelism, and at a time when it is wonderfully easy to refute his claims, simply by providing references to actions and words by our own ministers and political advisors in the current government or other representatives of our political and intellectual elites. A small sample: Our FM lies about extensive contacts with Hamas, also refusing to label it a terror organization Extensive funding of Palestinian organizations that glorify terrorism and spreads anti-semitism Our PM calling Gilbert and Fosse as they were shielding Hamas operatives within the Sheba hospital in 2009, to let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambassador Sevje is the real victim</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kafka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwegians are so damn touchy. Svein Sevje, the Norwegian ambassador to Israel&#8217;s largest city (the Norwegian government knows better than the Israeli people where Israel should have its capital), presents a litany of complaints to the Jerusalem Post. He complains bitterly that the Post &#8220;persists in regularly publishing strongly anti-Norwegian articles.&#8221; He thinks it is unfair when contributors to the Post confuse the Norwegian government with the Norwegian people, and takes pains to point out how insulting it is when people who write in the Post compare the Norwegian government to Nazis. Ouch. One can scarcely imagine how that must feel for the ambassador. His chief complaint, though, is a number of inaccuracies in one particular op-ed by Michael Sharnoff. Sevje gets unlimited column space in the Post to correct the record. Which he does, after a fashion: Here are his &#8220;facts&#8221; Even a brief glance at the website of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that Norway’s commitment to human rights, democracy and peace is worldwide, not confined to one country or part of the world. This is no naive it beggars belief. A brief glance at any foreign ministry&#8217;s website would give you that impression. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance is Bliss in Norway</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 19:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignorance is Bliss in Norway Bell Martin Breivik is a horrible criminal. His trial sofar has not only provided information on his misdeeds  As a byproduct the reactions to it have helped illustrate some characteristics of Norwegian society. The lack of self criticism and freedom of speech for true critical debate are two major shortcomings. To a certain extent the notion of “debate” has been misunderstood in Norway; the cultural elite silence those with ‘out of the ordinary opinions’ and label them as “extreme”. Someone like Hanne Nabintu Herland is considered “extreme” because she has a different view. I recently watched a debate where she claimed it would have been better if Breivik had been killed on the spot; the replies were harsh and the host only gave her one minute to reply. Yet everyone else had had ample time to summarize the court case rather than debate it. No one agreed with her opinion and they therefore did not want to spend time on it. This is what they misunderstood; this is a basis for great debate. Another issue which is affected by this attitude is the debate on the Arab Israeli conflict. There is little room in Norwegian [...]]]></description>
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