There is not much to be said for Dagsavisen, a Soria Moria mouthpiece which seems to respect neither itself nor its readers. Except that the rag does keep Roger Hercz II on their payroll. This model of Hercz is far…
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Israel gets neutral mention in Dagsavisen
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Israel gets quite a lot of coverage in the Norwegian media, and it’s rarely positive. Today Dagsavisen gives Israel a refreshingly neutral mention. The article “Entrepreneurship” is on the level of entrepreneurship, and the gender distribution of entrepreneurs, in Norway,…
Trade Unions stick to guns of Palestinian cause
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This year’s theme for May 1st, hazy and bloodstained as it is, will be the Palestinian cause. The ad above ran in today’s Dagsavisen. A full page ad like this costs something in the vicinity of NOK 30 000. But…
Dagsavisen on Goldstone-recant: ‘No acquittal’
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Dagsavisen was fiercely critical of Israel long before the Gaza-conflict in 2008. When Richard Goldstone criticized Israel in a UN report, Dagsavisen endorsed him. Now that Goldstone has recanted, Dagsavisen remains just as critical. Dagsavisen’s editorial today is titled “No…
‘Food smuggled into Egypt from Gaza’
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If food is being smuggled out of Gaza and into Egypt, that might indicate that there is less food in Egypt than there is in Gaza. Which begs the question: how come we haven’t been told about this before? Mohammed…
Torbjørn Jagland sees Turkey as example of how democracy and Islam goes well together
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Torbjørn Jagland (Labor) has an op-ed in Dagsavisen today. Notice how he still sees Turkey as an example of how Islam goes well with democracy. Some people are less optimistic about this than Mr.Jagland, but there you go. There is…
Roger Hercz plays with fire – lampoons Bjørn Olav Utvik
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In a country where state broadcaster NRK can get away with telling us that Egypt has never attacked Israel, Roger Hercz might soon find he needs to watch his pen. Let us hope that he doesn’t! In Dagsavisen today, journalist…
NRK silent while Dagsavisen applauds Støre’s talks with Hamas,
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This weekend state broadcaster NRK was silent on Støre’s talks with Hamas. This is not good news. The editorial in Dagsavisen, formerly more aptly named Arbeiderbladet (Labor-magazine), applauds Støre and condemns the opposition for criticzing him. While the editorial is…
On ‘Hitling’:Hege Ulstein vs. Hege Storhaug (HRS)
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When the left-of-centre compares Israelis to nazis, Dagsavisen does not comment. When Hege Storhaug of Human Rights Service compares Muslim activists to nazis, Dagsavisen cries foul. A case of double standards? Above we see an excerpt from an editorial by…
Engineering the debate: film director and journalist agree, fight for attention
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NRK’s Sidsel Wold and film director Vibeke Løkkeberg are both known critics of Israel. Now they are pretending to disagree on minor issues in order to be allowed a debate where they can agree in public. Sidsel Wold is NRK’s…
‘What’s good for Palestine is good for Norway’
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Roger Hercz is to the newspaper Dagsavisen what Tzipi Livni said she refused to be for Netanyahu – a fig leaf of decency. In today’s paper he claims that Norway plays a larger role in the Middle East now than…
Heger uses controversial Capa-photo as ‘face of war’
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Robert Capa’s famous photo “Falling Militiaman” has been revealed to be – at least in part – a fraud. In the commentary “The twin of war” (Krigens Tvilling) of Saturday July 3rd 2010, Dagsavisen’s Anders Heger suggests that the photo…
Israel eases up on Gaza blockade, Norwegian Palestinians unimpressed
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New newspaper editor is young, feminist, critical of… Israel
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Dagsavisen reports that their new chief editor Kaia Storvik is 33 years old and very suited for the position. We have not got much on her as of now, except a 2009 commentary where she points out that “increasingly” many…
DAGSAVISEN GIVES GERSTENFELD ‘FAIR GO’
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Dagsavisen is a struggling Norwegian daily traditionally associated with the Labor movment, unions and party. It is a newspaper which can be counted on to support the red-green coalition government in Norway. Today it gives Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld a…
Opposition gently demands action plan against anti-Semitism
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Hans Olav Syversen of the Christian Democrats is asking that the authorities take anti-Semitism seriously. Mr.Syversen has a good track record of doing so himself, although there are those who say that he is too much of a gentleman to…
Are Dagsavisen’s readers obsessed with Israel?
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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…
More talkbacks on Israel than on Afghanistan
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Above we see Dagsavisen’s article “Norwegian soldier killed by road-bomb in Afghanistan” by journalist Nils-Inge Kruhaug. Obviously this is highly relevant news for Norwegian readers. There are approximately 600 Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan and their families and friends are worried…
Anti-Semitism and Israeli Haiti-aid
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Jerusalem Post reports Anti-Semitism in Europe highest since WWII. “Classical anti-Semitism is changing, and it’s been replaced with a new anti-Semitism, which takes its shape in the form of unbridled attacks against the idea of a Jewish state” stated a spokesman…
Norway media slow to acknowledge Israeli criticism
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Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has been welcomed to Israel with sharply critical articles in both Jerusalem Post and Haaretz, which already have attracted furious talkbacks from upset Norwegians who are unaccustumed to seeing their country criticised. Meanshile the Norwegian…