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Dagbladet: ‘Hamas advertises with beach-pictures from Gaza’
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A Dagbladet article quotes Abu Toameh and suggests that the situation in Gaza is less dire than many other places. Pigs are flying even as this post is being written. Israelwhat is astonished. What we are seeing in Jørgen M.…
Dagbladet on anti-Semitism: ‘…a defeat nobody can live with.’
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A Dagbladet editorial today tells us that anti-Semitism is a defeat nobody can live with. As opposed, Israelwhat surmises, to the legitimate criticism of Israel made evident in the Dagbladet cartoon above (2006, Finn Graff). Unauthorized translation from today’s Dagbladet:…
‘Royal Guardsmen ran to lavatories and hid underneath beds’
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Norway is the land of milk and honey. Is all this opulence turning our men into weaklings? The behavior of some Royal Guardsmen seems to indicate that it is. This sort of thing is just intolerable. Is Norway turning into…
School bus recap
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What the Norwegian media has told us, and what it couldn’t be bothered to mention. Information in Norwegian about how Hamas targeted an Israeli school buss with an anti-tank missile yesterday has been almost exclusively channelled through one piece by…
Dagbladet on Dershowitz: ‘Only South Africa has refused to let me lecture before’
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We had given up hope! Yet here it is, an article in Dagbladet letting Alan Dershowitz present his side of the story of how his offers of free lectures were rejected at Norwegian universities. This is cause for jubilation! And…
Dagbladet on Itamar killings, Dalal Mughrabi
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On Sunday Dagbladet published an article, by journalist Jørgen M. Gilbrant, on the Itamar killings. This article is worthy of praise because it mentions Dalal Mughrabi. Most Norwegians will have absolutely no idea whom Dalal Mughrabi is. Learning that the…
Government-party politician: ‘I know the Holocaust did not happen’
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To such an extent is Arbeiderpartiet (Labor) the most powerful political structure in Norway, that Norway’s most prominent political historian Jens Arup Seip once claimed Norway should be acknowledged as a one-party state. Today Dagbladet informs us that Labor politician…
Islamophobia equals anti-Semitism
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Dagbladet’s article ”Get him! Damn Jew!”, offers a video clip from the riots of January 2009 and deals with the recently released report on anti-Semitism and racism in the schools. Unauthorized translation: That the new anti-semitism in Europe was not…
Mads Gilbert is hospital hero
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The Norwegian media wants to cast Mads Gilbert as a hero for his work at Shifa hospital in Gaza during the 2008/2009 Hamas-Israel war. Would they have been equally willing to please, if he had been a friend of Israel…
Labor: ‘Over the top to ask PM to apologize to Israel’
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Yesterday the Progress Party stated that PM Stoltenberg should apologize to Israel after for Norway’s hasty judgement after the Mavi Marmara incident. Now Labor’s Eva Kristin Hansen, a member of the Palestinian-block in Norwegian politics, says the Progress Party ought…
Dagbladet on ‘thieving Israeli elite-soldiers’: wrong in four different ways
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The Dagbladet article below is misleading, when it is not directly wrong, in no less than four different ways. The Dagbladet article above, headed “Armed robbery on Gaza-ships“, was written by journalist Einar Hagvaag and ran on August 19th. The…
NTB tut-tuts treatment of Gilad Shalit
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Several NIJ readers have reacted to an Norwegian News Agency (NTB) article in Dagbladet which seems to tut-tut the conditions under which Gilad Shalit is being held captive. Citizen H, one of the NIJ street irregulars, comments: Gilad Shalit has…
‘Abbas supports blockade’ article falls flat, published only in one Norwegian newspaper
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According to Dagbladet’s journalist Jørgen M. Gilbrant, Abbas has spoken in support of the blockade of Hamas-run Gaza. No other newspaper has picked up on the story however. Strange.
Henning Mankell was on Mavi Marmara AND Sofia
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Retriever (media analysis tool) shows us that the last two weeks, Norwegian newspapers have published 48 articles of Kyrgyzstan and 239 on Gaza. The Norwegian media covers Israel more than all other ME states together. Provided that they make an…
Dagbladet on Jewish ‘chokehold’ on US politics
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In Norway the parliamentary group “Friends of Palestine”, which is backed by the government, outnumbers and outguns the “Friends of Israel”, which is backed by the opposition. Surveys have repeatedly shown media to be biased against Israel and in favor…
Increased sales of Israeli wine, Dagbladet distressed
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Norwegians are increasingly happy to drink Israeli wine. Dagbladet does not approve. Journalist Vegard Kristiansen Kvaale reports on the issue in the article “Polet sells more occupation-wine“, with Polet being a State alcohol outlet-a monopoly. In Kvaale’s article it appears…
Newspaper presents activist as unbiased source
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The screenshot above is from journalist Jørgen M.Gilbrant’s article “Obama: – I believe in real progress in the Middle East” in Dagbladet. In the article two Norwegian experts on the Middle East are invited to comment. One of them is…
Why Norway should be ashamed
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What do we expect of our soldiers when they are attacked by civilians claiming to be peace activists? What do we expect of the soldiers of other countries? Our boys are fighting terrorism in faraway Afghanistan, while Israel is fighting…
Think tank claims Israeli boarding is equivalent to declaration of war on Turkey
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Turkey and Norway are both NATO members. Now two Fafo researchers claim that Israel’s boarding of the FGM flotilla may be seen as the equivalent of a declaration of war on Turkey. The consequences of this claim, if it should…