You don’t have to read Norwegian newspapers for a long time to realize that NTB functions a bit like the political commisariate for the press here. Their releases read like political talking points for the editors who reprint things. NTB in turn tends to cut, paste, translate, redact, and edit from AFP and occasionally...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- Happy 17th of MayOnce more, we gather under our flag to celebrate our freedom. Each 17th of May, the Jewish community in Oslo organize a formal and serene commemoration of Henrik Wergeland, the son of one of the member of the Constituent Assembly for our Constitution. In its original version, our Constitution was shamed by the exclusion of Jews and Jesuits in Norway, som […]
- “Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too badThe synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the speeches Støre and Stoltenberg with no end to the flowery assurances, this is what it comes down to: Jews should be content feeling prett […]
- The Jewish Community in Oslo applied for NOK 21 million for security measures, only got NOK 7,2lifted from Vårt Land Synagogues receive NOK 7.2 million for security The money goes towards securing doors, upgrade the monitoring system and setting up a security fence. The Government proposes in the revised national budget to allocate 7.2 million forsecurity at the Jewish Religious Community (DMT). - No one should have to be afraid to exercise their rel […]
- Letter from a 17-year old Jewish boyAftenposten today published an op-ed from “Daniel,” a 17-year old Norwegian student who happens to be Jewish. He feels surrounded by antisemitic attitudes, ranging from comments by a fellow video game player (“just pretend they’re Jews when you aim at them”), to the inevitable “so you support killing babies?” when he mentions he supports Israel, to the inabi […]
- PalCom action ‘small and unsuccessful’lifted from miff.no Palestine Committee’s action was “small and unsuccessful” Only a small number of provocateurs from Palestine Committee participated in a store action against Israel’s Dead Sea products in Oslo last Tuesday (May 16) evening. The police were notified in advance and got them quickly away from the place. By Conrad Myrland Published: 16/05/201 […]
- VG’s Astrid Meland attacks Pal activists and media for unethical focus on IsraelAstrid Meland published an OpEd in VG on May 14, which currently is not online. MIFF has published a review article online, from where I have lifted the following: Astrid Meland believes Israel’s critics in Norway are victim of a collective neurosis, where you turn a blind eye to much worse breaches of human rights by other states. - Unethical focus on Isra […]
- Stand up, stand up – for the Hebrew MamitaIf I were a man, I would seriously consider inviting this lady out for dinner. Since I am not, I can only say – WAY TO GO, SISTER! linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none"; […]
- Oopsie – Norwegian academia has become synonymous with academic anti-Semitismlifted from ynetnews.com This is the cost of allowing a guy like Galtung to roam free – regardless of round rejection of his recent remarks, this was by no means the first time the ‘mad professor’ let it rip, as is evident by the details of this op-ed. Why did not the Norwegian intelligentia react at an earlier stage? Did they perhaps agree with the previous […]
- Gloves are off: MIFF (With Israel for Peace) reports the PalCom to the policeLifted from miff.no What can I say? Bravo! MIFF is doing an incredibly important job and luckily their hard efforts are rewarded with a healthy growth in their memberships. Maybe readers of this blog could be entreated to find a way of supporting MIFF? By the way, I have no relation to MIFF, personally or professionally – this is just a courtesy call to reco […]
- What Karsten Tveit’s award really signifiesOdd Karsten Tveit wins the Gullruten lifetime award for his propaganda news coverage from the Middle East. When it comes to correspondents in the Middle East sent by NRK (the governmental broadcasting organization financed by a surcharge on owning a television), it’s a bit like watching the Eurovision song contest: you can endlessly discuss who is worse. Bu […]
Posts Tagged ‘ Gaza ’
Gaza promotional video starring Mads Gilbert
Here is a promotional video from Gaza showing us a very different picture from the one we are accustomed to. The Norwegian Palestine-lobby is ignoring the fact that the maghreb and middle east is in flames for reasons which have nothing to do with Israel, and are equipping and manning a convoy to come...
Støre warns own Gaza activists: ‘What comes by sea is most likely to enter a Hamas controlled economy’
Change is in the air: Now FM Jonas Gahr Støre is warning over participation in the “Gaza convoys”. Communist Klassekampen (Class war) is seething with anger. Verdens Gang runs the article “Støre issues warning to his own Gaza activists“, by Erlend Skevik and Mads A. Andersen. Summary: At the annual conference of the Labor Party,...
Vårt Land on Gaza activism
Vårt Land is one of the smaller Norwegian newspapers. Today’s editorial is on Gaza-activism in Norway. The editorial correctly points out that although Gaza-activism in Norway sails under a humanitarian flag, it’s true purpose is to break the isolation of the Hamas regime and to discredit Israel. The editorial is titled “Gaza activism”: The...
‘Food smuggled into Egypt from Gaza’
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 Omer reports from Gaza/Egypt today in an article in Dagsavisen reporting that “The food...
Gaza makes front page of Klassekampen… again.
Only yesterday Gaza found its way to the front pages of Aftenposten. Today Gaza runs on the front pages of communist Klassekampen. It’s a funny thing, Aftenposten is still perceived as the antithesis of Klassekampen. Yet Aftenposten’s chief editor Hilde Haugsgjerd is a former acolyte of the maoists AKPml, and AKPml started Klassekampen as...
Aftenposten Wikisquad finds Coca-Cola smut on… Israel
Aftenposten, having gained access to the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, today gloatingly reveals a minor case of coca-cola related smut on Israel. NOTE: Professor Gonagall has already covered this issue, see below. Too fast, that Gonagall. Too fast. The story “Coca-cola revealed corruption in Israeli customs” which runs in Aftenposten.no, tells us that...
Gaza lacks construction material?
Or so we are told by organizations(Amnesty International, Christian Aid, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam International and Save the Children UK) who claim that Israel is not living up to Gaza promises. Here are two excerpts from the article in JP: here from the organizations who accuse Israel of wrong doing: “it has so far...
‘Their blood cries out’ – but not to Norwegian journalists
On the basis of the findings of a soon-to-be PhD, two Norwegian newspapers have once again disseminated the theory that Israel is to blame for the plight of Palestinian Christians. In contrast we see books such as “Their blood cries out” which Norwegian newspapers stay well clear of. “Their blood cries out” is a...
NTB article on ‘humanitarian’ ship to Gaza
Dagbladet today runs an NTB article on the Libyan ship Amalthea, which is said to be carrying 2000 tons of aid to Gaza. The ship is financed by a humanitarian organization bearing the name of Moamar Gadaffi. The article reminds us of recent history with the following sentence: “Nine people were killed in the...
Israelphobes receive Hamas-affiliate with open arms
If an Israeli dignitary were to visit Norway he would be met with demonstrations and demands for boycott. Now Norway is visited by a Gaza-mayor who most certainly will be affiliated with, if not a member of, Hamas. He is received with open arms. No questions asked. A representative of an authoritarian, genocidal movement,...
Sidsel Wold discovers literary vein in self
Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East. Since she is terrified of the Janjaweed however, Sudan is off. And since the gulf states are despotic regimes where information is hard to come by and women are treated like chattel, she doesn’t want to go. Libya, Jordan and Lebanon are better, but there...
‘Supplyship’ Mavi Marmara evokes memory of ‘supplyship’ Tali
So the Mavi Marmara was infiltrated by militant activists who used the peaceniks as a shield, just like the Taliban does in Afghanistan where they are fighting Norwegians soliders. And as for the goods onboard the Mavi Marmara, the Hamas refuses to accept it, it didn’t amount to more than Israel provides on a...
Klassekampen exaggerates shortages in Gaza
The screenshot above is from Sissel Henriksen’s article “These goods are not allowed into Gaza” in Klassekampen, a communist daily. The article seems angled in such a manner as to cast Israel in as negative a light as possible and it is necessary to question how sound the facts are. For instance, Henriksen writes...
Labor parlamentarian says will sail to Gaza
Anette Trettebergstuen represents Labor in Parliament, where she has founded the group “Friends of Palestine”. This group is backed by government and both outnumbers and outguns the “Friends of Israel” which is backed by parts of the opposition. Now VG reports that Trettbergstuen says she wants to sail to Gaza and violate the blockade of...
Blockade of Gaza same as roadblocks in Afghan
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Is obesity still a problem in Gaza?
The table above is from The Economist and shows 2004 figures for obesity, with men and women in Gaza and the Westbank ranking #8 and #3 respectively. Now a lot can happen over six years so in terms of nutrition the situation in Gaza might very well be different today. Yet the table above...
Is Afghanistan like Warsaw?
During Cast Lead, Hamas successfully hid behind their own civilian population. Their diabolical strategy left approximately 1400 Palestinian civilians dead. Now Norwegian politician Bjørnar Moxnes from Red (Rødt) claims in an op-ed in Dagsavisen that 2500 Afghan civilians have been killed during combat operations. While it is uncertain where Mr.Moxnes has this figure from,...
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 war-material was...