RSS Norway, Israel and the Jews

  • Book: The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo
    A new book on the riots of January 2009 is out. “The anti-jewish riots in Oslo” is written by Eirik Eiglad. Mr.Eiglad runs the journal Communalism, which defines its purpose as providing “a forum for the exposition of Communalism as a viable political alternative”. I have just started dipping into the book and it looks promising. [...] […]
  • Gov. plagued by renegade economists, freelancing army officers and right-wing Israelis
    Is the Norwegian government inventing enemies just so as to have someone else to blame but themselves? Here are three recent and current examples: 1: …a campaign… is being organized and orchestrated from circles who point out enemies of Israel [in Norway](Haaretz): During a tour to the Middle East, FM Jonas [...] […]
  • Israel chamber of commerce blocked by ‘Blitzers’
    The Blitz-house is financed with public money We tipped Finnish Tundra Tabloids on this story and they got it out before we did. That’s Finnish efficiency for you. It explains why they have developed Nokia while we just found oil. The situation is this: 1) Norway-Israel chamber of commerce organizes event at the Henie-Onstad center [...] […]
  • Inger Lise Hansen: I am a friend of Israel
    Christian Democrats Christian Democrat Inger Lise Hansen caused a huge uproar when she recently displayed a list of seven items which she believed would draw a larger proportion of the electorate – a full three of the four points consisted of being less supportive of Israel. It is difficult to imagine what is more scary [...] […]
  • Anti-Semitism in Malmö obvious to entire world – except Norway
    Skånskan, a regional Swedish newspaper The screenshot above is from Skånskan, a Swedish newspaper, and lists the articles that newspaper has published on anti-Semitism in Malmö. There is quite a few of them. Blogger Ilya Meyer lists foreign media which are covering the situation;  The Local, Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, 5T Jewish Times , CFCA, WJC, [...] […]
  • Norvège: les Chrétiens démocrates s’affrontent sur Israël
    It draws attention when a small Norwegian party official discovers that 40 percent of the party’s problems lies in not being critical enough of Israel. Ms.Inger Lise Hansen, the official in question, has since stated that she is a friend of Israel. This is probably true, and perhaps the conservatives of the Christian Democrats could [...] […]
  • What Aksersgata does not tell us
    Norway’s government insists anti-Semitism is a fringe activity in the Palestinian Territories, to which Norway is a leading donor. Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street – tells us of the Holocaust, but not of anti-Semitism in contemporary Malmö, right across the border. They tell us of deputy Minister of Development Ingrid Fiskaa, but make light of [...] […]
  • Christian Democrats’ contract with the electorate
    Christian Democrats Christian Democrat politician Inger Lise Hansen has recently suggested that the party changes its stance on seven issues, three of which are on Israel: 1) Say no to the wall 2) No moving embassy to Jerusalem 3) . Ms.Hansen’s list 3) Stop one-sided support of Israel. Ms.Hansen’s list drew both support (from the liberal [...] […]
  • Are Dagsavisen’s readers obsessed with Israel?
    Talkbacks from Dagsavisen, February 2nd 2010 The screen-shot above is from the foreign affairs section of moribund Dagsavisen, a left-wing newspaper. Each post in the screen-shot shows the title and a introductory lines of an article. The number next to the icon at the bottom of each post shows the number of talkbacks the article [...] […]
  • On the use of white phosphorus
    Several Norwegian news-sites are following up on Haaretz story “IDF denies disciplining top officers over white phosphorous use in Gaza war“. Dagbladet’s Jonas Sverrison Rasch writes (unauthorized translation): According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz the Israeli forces are denying that the two have been disciplined, but does not deny that the contested wa […]

Spook bigwig: War on terror just begun

The head of PST – the Police Security Services in Norway is interviewed in this weekend edition (January 23/24th) of Dagens Næringsliv, a prominent and well respected business daily. She brings disturbing news. Unauthorized translation below:

Age of extremists. “Extreme Islamicism” appears in the first sentence in PST’s last threat-evaluation. And the security service believes that [...]

January 23rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Norwegian society, Riots/Violence/Terror/Threats, Uncategorized | One comment

DN Nov. 5th: False Quote on Anti-Semitism

In the last week of October journalist Kjetil Wiedswang in the prestigious business daily Dagens Næringsliv commented on the strained aspects of Norway-Israeli relations . In doing so he unfortunately relied upon “chinese whispers” about Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, including a misquote which has been bandied about by both the Norwegian and Swedish News Agencies [...]

November 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Anti-Israeli sentiment in Norway, Foreign - on Norway, Norwegian Media | Leave a comment

Kjetil Wiedswang on Norway – Israel relations

(Originally published on October 27th – republished on request on November 5th)

Mr.Kjetil Wiedswang is no fool. A prominent and respected Norwegian journalist in the employ of Dagens Næringsliv, a well-reputed business daily, he can often seize the attention of the country’s elites (read more by Mr.Wiedswang here and here). On October 24th this weekend he [...]

November 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Anti-Israeli sentiment in Norway, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Norwegian Media, Norwegian politics | 3 comments

Dagens Næringsliv contaminated by chinese whisper

Despite this unfortunate affair, DN remains one of Norway’s finest newspapers and Mr.Wiedswang one of our sharpest journalists. The only mistake Mr.Wiedswang made was to believe the information provided to him by his colleagues. In the climate offered by the Norwegian debate on the Middle East, this is not advisable.

Below; letter from Manfred Gerstenfeld of [...]

November 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Norwegian Media, anti-semitism | Leave a comment

Op-ed:Operation Cast lead “almost” like al-Assad massacre at Hama

Saturday July 4th, 2009. Journalist Kjetil Wiedswang writes the commentary “Obama’s first war” in Dagens Næringsliv, Norway’s largest business newspaper. Wiedswang claims that there are two basic strategies for defeating a wellequipped and motivated guerilla army; the al-Assad way and the Briggs way.

The first and most widely used strategy consits of using raw and unrestricted violence. It was demonstrated [...]

July 4th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Lady of peace

Norway’s leading business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv runs a two-page interview with the new leader for the Committee for Palestine, Mrs.Line Khateeb. The interview is titled “Lady of peace” and is a cordial affair where Mrs. Khateeb expresses concern over the high level of traffic accidents in Israel, which she attributes to the high level of [...]

February 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Anti-Israeli sentiment in Norway, Newspeak, Norwegian Media | Leave a comment