Tag Archive for book

When Harald Stanghelle hugged Arafat

by admin • February 28, 2011 • 1 Comment

The screenshot above shows us page 85 from “Sykling på vannet”, a book on the history of Klassekampen (Class struggle). The underlined parts tell us of how Harald Stanghelle, today an influential editor of Aftenposten, sometime in 1984 got to…

by admin • January 1, 2011 • 1 Comment

On page 128 of “Crusade in Europe”, Eisenhower’s WWII memoirs, we see a mention of a part of Middle East history which Norwegian ME pundits never, ever refer to: Remembering that for years the uneducated population had been subjected to…

by admin • December 23, 2010 • 0 Comments

The Saudi Gazette agrees with Norwegian literary reviews: Abulhawa is a truly gifted author! The Saudi Gazette writes: With translation into some 20 languages, Abulhawa’s novel is already enjoying success beyond the English-reading world. The author reported on her Twitter…

by admin • December 21, 2010 • 2 Comments

Susan Abulhawa’s “Morning in Jenin” is making a lot of people very happy. The author is making money, the publisher is capturing a large market-share and the readers get a whopping good read featuring an evil villain, a noble hero,…

by admin • December 20, 2010 • 4 Comments

“Eyes in Gaza” was penned by NORWAC doctors Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert during the Hamas/Israel war in 2008/2009. NORWAC was founded as a joint venture between Norwegian pro-Palestinians and the MFA when Palestinakomiteen no longer was allowed to operate…

by admin • December 18, 2010 • 1 Comment

Christmas shopping appears to benefit Susan Abulhawa, whose novel now ranks as #2 on the top 10 bestselling list. What does this tell us about the market? In Abulhawa’s “Mornings in Jenin”, the Jews are barren, hollow-eyed KZ survivors from…

by admin • December 5, 2010 • 7 Comments

Susan Abulhawa’s novel “Morning in Jenin” is a bestseller in Norway and still ranks among the “top 10″ in many Oslo bookstores. Reviewers are falling over eachother in heaping praise on the book. The photo above is taken at an…

by admin • November 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

The observations of Harold Nicholsen, WWII era scholar, diplomat and writer, are still valid today. As the screenshot above (courtesy of MIFF) shows us, anti-Semitism is tragically not a thing of the past. In Norway, we see traditional xenophobia mixing…

by admin • November 15, 2010 • 1 Comment

The photo above is from a bookstore in central Oslo. The book is Susan Abulhawa’s “Morning in Jenin”, a work of fiction which casts Jews as “hollow-eyed” land-thieves with no historical connection to the land, and neither agricultural nor managerial…

by admin • November 9, 2010 • 2 Comments

The photo above shows the bestsellers at a bookstore in Oslo central station. We see Ken Follett doing pretty good up at second place, and Dan Brown struggling but still scoring a healthy fifth. Susan Abulhawa’s “Morning in Jenin” ranks…

by admin • November 8, 2010 • 0 Comments

Kåre Willoch is a former PM (Conservatives) and an outspoken critic of Israel. In his recently released book he observes the waning might of the west, expresses fear of a clash of civilizations, and cautions Israel to find peace with…

by admin • August 29, 2010 • 2 Comments

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…

by admin • August 6, 2010 • 2 Comments

It is a sad fact that Israel is one of the only countries on earth, except perhaps Burma, with which Norway has “chilly” relations. With all other countries, including Israel’s authoritarian neighbors, Norway gets along excellently. In a 2002 poll,…

by admin • July 6, 2010 • 1 Comment

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…

by admin • June 30, 2010 • 0 Comments

by admin • June 6, 2010 • 1 Comment

Document.no is more than a blog but not quite a movement. Yet. It is finding its feet, though, and has already hosted several very successful seminars with more to come. The latest initiative consists of a piece-meal purchase of the…

by admin • May 28, 2010 • 0 Comments

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…

by admin • May 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

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…

by admin • May 25, 2010 • 0 Comments

Did Jews really force Arab women to parade naked through Jerusalem in 1948? Benjamin Rødner published his book “Løgnere iblandt oss” (Liers in our midst) in 1976. The book, now freely available as a PDF from MIFF, revealed how the…

by admin • May 23, 2010 • 1 Comment

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…

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