Tag Archive for anti-semitism

Drefvelin defends his dreck

by Kafka • May 30, 2013 • 2 Comments

Political cartoonists are rarely as good as they think they are. The adage that a picture is worth a thousand words typically works the other way: what would be too plain, crude, or outright stupid to put in text, cartoonists…

by McGonagall • February 15, 2011 • 6 Comments

Professor in social psychology Arnulf Kolstad at NTNU has a very peculiar take on anti-semitism, here from an interview with the NRK from April last year regarding the leader of the Jewish community in Trondheim public complaint that the word…

by admin • February 11, 2011 • 0 Comments

A female Jewish student tells of how she was harassed and harangued at the Univeristy of Oslo. Upon visiting a bar, she was told to go and “burn in Auschwitz”. The issue has been reported on in several media. The…

by admin • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

Following a number of anti-Semitic incidents and international criticism, the Holocaust Centre is being given funds to survey anti-Semitism in contemporary Norway. But is the leader of the Holocaust Centre, Odd-Bjørn Fure, the right man for the job? We need…

by admin • January 22, 2011 • 12 Comments

In last week’s edition of Morgenbladet, a man wrote of how he upon visiting a cafe in Trondheim was slapped for the sin of refusing to be ashamed of having relatives in Israel. In this week’s issue, a Norwegian Jew…

by admin • January 14, 2011 • 4 Comments

Op-ed in Morgenbladet: A psychology student writes of how he tells a stranger that he has Israeli relatives, whereupon the stranger launches into a pro-Hamas harangue and slaps him. The op-ed is online in Morgenbladet. The psychology student tells of…

by admin • December 7, 2010 • 2 Comments

An Aftenposten editorial today rejects the arguments of Bernard Henri Levy, which were presented in an op-ed in Aftenposten on Sunday. The editorial does not go into specifics. It does not seriously engage in neither debate nor dialogue. What it…

by admin • December 2, 2010 • 0 Comments

Bernard Henri Levy is a leading French intellectual who is well known across the world. He now criticizes Norway in his regular column in Le Point, mentioning among other Vibeke Løkkeberg’s documentary on Gaza and the forced relocation of the…

by admin • February 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

For better and for worse, Norway is accustomed to being so far away from the rest of the world that most of the time they do not even know we are there. When a post from this blog is translated…

by admin • December 15, 2009 • 0 Comments

Oslo has never had many Jews. Due to a mix of natural deaths, emigration and membership error, it now turns out there are even fewer of them than we thought until quite recently. Only a few days ago, on December…

by admin • October 27, 2009 • 0 Comments

Many Norwegians will have it that although anti-Semitism does exist, the charge of anti-Semitism has been discredited through indiscriminate use. People voicing legitimate criticism of Israel have too often been brought to silence with unfounded accusations of anti-Semitism, they say.…

by admin • August 18, 2009 • 1 Comment

Actor Robert Mitchum played in Winds of War and War and Remembrance. He also gets a mention in Denying the Holocaust: The growing assault on Truth and Memory, by Deborah Lipstadt: “Echoes of Holocaust denial have also been heard from…

by admin • July 14, 2009 • 0 Comments

This weekend, in a two-page article on Polish jews, Dagbladet journalist Ingrid Brekke covers anti-Semitism under the sub-heading “Poles are not anti-Semitic“. Brekke points to the anti-Semitic legacy of Poland, referring not only to WWII but also to how anti-Semitism…

by admin • March 9, 2009 • 1 Comment

The Norwegian daily Verdens Gang today picks up on an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post. VG reports that two Israelis associated with the Simon Wiesenthal centre accuse Sweden and the city of Malmö of being saturated with anti-semitism after the last days’…

by admin • March 8, 2009 • 1 Comment

With regards to the events in Malmö yesterday, here is a snippet of information from Philosemitism on the Dutch Foreign Minister: —–Excerpt from Philosemitism begins “It is an excuse for terrorists, but also for youth to raise hell. Not only…

by admin • March 1, 2009 • 0 Comments

19 Norwegian media sources today report on how Israeli political scientist and author Manfred Gerstenfeld condemns Norway for being the most anti-semitic country in Europe. Excerpt below from Verdens Gang, one of Norway’s larger daily’s. “In an interview with TV…

by admin • February 16, 2009 • 0 Comments

Aftenposten today reports that the leader of Europe’s fatwa-council, Yusuf al -Qaradawi, has stated that the Holocaust was a divine punishment. The Islamic Council of Norway did not originally distance itself from the statement, but did so after five hours. The wellknown…

by admin • February 15, 2009 • 0 Comments

Threats related to war in Gaza. Aftenposten today reports on a threatening letter sent to the Israeli embassy in Oslo. The letter appears to have been doused in an chemical irritant, such as tear gas, and two postal employees were briefly…

by admin • February 11, 2009 • 0 Comments

From Aftenposten 11.02.09. The article builds on an article by Gershon Baskin in the Jerusalem Post. Israelwhat will verify the status of Mr.Gershon Baskin before translating more of the article. —–Excerpt begins Neither strategically nor politically have the Israelis achieved…

by admin • February 11, 2009 • 0 Comments

Norwegian author Niels Chr. Geelmuyden writes a co-ed in Aftenposten on February 10th under the title “Hate enough for all”. The article opens with the author telling us that the one time in his life he has received a death…

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