Who would have thought it would ever come to this. Read the Jerusalem Post “Making sense of Norwegian anti-Semitism“. This is terrifying. Excerpt: Do you consider Norway to have the highest levels of anti-Semitism among the Scandinavian countries? It’s close, but if I had to bet on which country was the worst, I do think I’d...
Norway, Israel and the Jews
- NUPI researcher thinks condemnation of Syria’s Assad is selective and opportunisticNAÏVE PRAYERS OVER SYRIA Aftenposten 2012 02 21 p 6, Helge Lurås Summary. Helge Lurås of NUPI expresses deep skepticism over the Syrian opposition, admitting the Assad regime is not exactly being a model of democracy of human rights and democracy, however it is having the support of perhaps 50 per cent of the country’s population, not least he minorities. Q […]
- Gutting Israel over its embassyNorwegian media continue to make a feast out of Israel’s difficulties in finding a suitable venue for its embassy, which both takes security concerns and costs into consideration. Maybe we shall remind the ironic commentators that there is a very good reason why Israel is particularly sensitive with regards to security; its embassy was blown to bits in Bueno […]
- ooopsy,that’s the Nobel price taken off our hands then…Some of you may remember an entry from December last year, at a time when Norway had suffered several set-backs reputation wise. A substantial part of that entry was dedicated to an oped by the great grandson of Alfred Nobel, who charged that the Norwegian Nobel committee does not fulfill its obligations under the Alfred Nobel Testament: He says that the Nor […]
- The Embarrassing Embassy story…As Kafka says, Norway isn’t very keen on being a good host – but then I suppose Norway is very happy with the arrangement for our own embassy in Tel Aviv, situated on top of a fancy shopping center in very upmarket part of town, where security is taken well care of by shopping center and local police. Maybe the Israelis are just that much better in providing […]
- Norwegian hospitality to Israel: Suffer bitch!Almost as certain as death and taxes, NRK will not let any opportunity pass by to portray Jews as victims or Israelis as whiners. NRK Østlandssendingen headlines a piece with “The Israeli embassy feels discriminated,” and goes on to cover the Israeli embassy’s alleged whining over not being able to find a suitable location for its embassy. NRK makes its best […]
- Aftenposten allows anti-Semitic commentsAftenposten today published an oped by Martin Bodd, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, responding to a proposal by Aftenposten’s editor for culture and debate Knut Olav Åmås to name a square after one of the Jewish children we sent off to an early and cruel death in Auschwitz in 1942. The talkbacks to this oped are horrific, demonstrating once more that it […]
- The product of a rotting mindDagsavisens forum for polite debate can from time to time look surprisingly like the inside of the head of a person with very unstable hormones, or perhaps neurons like over-ripe camembert cheese. Or, like a grotty catacomb where no air has circulated for centuries. It is probably a style thing; to be oddly out of touch – passé, where they want to be progres […]
- Frightened Norwegian shooters stay at homeI wonder if the powers that be in Norway have put similar travel warnings in place for anybody going to Sweden, specifically to Malmø? Norway Says Israel Dangerous, Won’t Allow Shooting Team to Visit Norway’s security authorities rule that Israel is dangerous, the country’s national shooting team cancels its trip to Israel next month. Elad Benari Norway’s se […]
- Al-Dura lies finally exposedLifted from Jerusalem Post French court acquits Israeli in al-Dura libel case Dr. Yehuda David had been convicted for refuting claimsthat a former patient of his was injured by IDF gunfire in iconic second Intifada incident. A French appeals court on Wednesday acquitted Israeli Dr. Yehuda David of libeling the father of Muhammad al- Dura, a symbol of the sec […]
- Fjordman hits backTERRORISM AND GENUFLEXION Verdens Gang 2012 02 17 p 27, Peder Nøstvold Jensen, a.k.a “Fjordman”. Not Online Author Øyvind Strømmen has been referred to by the media as an expert post 22/7; though it is rather vague what he is supposed to be an expert in. Strømmen took part in the Labor party’s seminar on extremism in January of 2012 in the company of Harald […]
Posts Tagged ‘ Jerusalem Post ’
JP: Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker
The Jerusalem Post, which Aftenposten editor Harald Stanghelle claims is a right-wing rag way past its prime, has an article on the Holocaust-denying Labor politico Anders Mathisen. From JP article “Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker“: … There is no evidence the gas chambers or mass graves existed,” he told the newspaper, according to reports. “Even reputable...
Founder of HRW criticizes HRW for moral failures in treatment of Israel
Norwegian journalists and intellectuals are quick to quote Human Rights Watch when it criticizes Israel. Let us see whether they quote anything from this lecture by Robert L. Bernstein, the founder of HRW, which you can read in the Jerusalem Post. Notice how Bernstein refers to a report on the Hamas administration’s Interior Minister...
JP: Christian families in Bethlehem say Muslim thugs are persecuting them
Norwegian journalists, scholars and clergymen usually attribute the difficulties of Palestinian Christians to Israel. They do not tell us about how Palestinian Muslims persecute Palestinian Christians, nor about how this is part of a larger picture where Christians having been forced out of Muslim countries for centuries. The article below was first published in...
Anti-Israel TV show angers Palestinians but will not make NRK
The Turkish TV series “Palestinian in Love and in War” is casting IDF soldiers as rapists and cold-blooded killers. Norwegian media has picked up on this, as well as how Israel has reacted to this. What we probably will not see Norwegian media reporting on is how Palestinians are protesting against the show. Jerusalem Post...
Analysis: Why don’t Norwegians take on anti-Semitism
Excerpt from JP – Analysis: Why don’t Norwegians take on anti-Semitism by Benjamin Weinthal. Mr.Weinthal defines the Norwegian Leftists as Islamists, which is strange. Beyond that, there is not much to object to. Norwegian television aired a broadcast showing Jewish parents and teachers – who did not reveal their identities – blowing the whistle on Norwegian school...
Norwegian media omits good news about Israel, emphasizes the bad
The screenshot above is from Verdens Gang, Norway’s largest daily. The heading runs Great Britain is an anti-Semitic dog. Which is an uncouth thing to say so no, it is no wonder the story it into Norwegian. It ran in Israel on March 23rd and in Norway on March 24th. The screenshot below is...
Anti-Semitism and Israeli Haiti-aid
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 for the Jewish Agency at a conference in Jerusalem. In today’s Dagsavisen journalist Roger...
Norwegian ambassador invited to dialogue on Norway-Israel relations
Yesterday Norway’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, Jakken Bjørn Lian, had his right of reply published in the Jerusalem Post. Below you see a reply to Lian’s right of reply, by Manfred Gerstenfeld. In his letter Mr.Gerstenfeld invites the Norwegian ambassador to a dialogue. This is an offer ambassador Lian hopefully will get permission from...
JP ep-ed: “Are we whitewashing events in Norway?”
Today JP, which a prominent Norwegian newspaper editor has slammed has a untrustworthy right-wing rag, publishes an op-ed by Dr.Gerstenfeld of the JCPA, whom the same Norwegian newspaper has characterized as a blinded and inexhaustible fanatic. Excerpt below: However, not all is black. Most Norwegians have other problems than the Middle East conflict. There...
Jerusalem Post: Is Norway really anti-Semitic
JP has published a well written op-ed by a Norwegian, one John A. Moen, under the title “Is Norway really anti-Semitic”. Here is an excerpt: While awaiting the researchers’ conclusions, we can summarize the following: The problems we encounter as Norwegian Jews primarily derive from the fact that some Muslim immigrants transfer their hatred...
NTNU in Tehran Times
Iran is more than bearded fundamentalists and especially Tehran boasts a solid middle class which would seeks to resolve situations in an adult manner, rather than just rant and rave. The Tehran Times, “Iran’s leading international daily“, comments on the boycott proposal at NTNU (quoting the Jerusalem Post as its source): Alsberg also believes...
The conspicuous silence of NTNU rector Digernes
NTNU is making regular appearances in the newspapers these days. The Norwegian Press Agency (NTB) has written an article on the issue which has been published in both Verdens Gang (Norway’s largest daily) and Dagbladet. Foreign newspapers are picking up as well these days. Here, from Jpost, starting with a bit of the basics:...
HRW under criticism from founder
The Jerusalem Post reports that HRW founder Robert L.Bernstein criticizes HRW for “helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.” Norwegian daily DagenMagazinet follows up on it. Other Norwegian newspapers, so eager to comment when HRW condemns Israel, remain silent on occasions such as this – actually Dagsavisen, a minor daily,...
On Norwegian journalism
Back in March, the Jerusalem Post published an erroneous article on anti-Semitism in Norway. Now we Norwegians, as opposed to Israelis, are not used to having erroneous articles printed about us in foreign newspapers. So naturally there was a legitimate outcry and the JP retracted their article. Some Norwegians had the decency to point...
Zvi Mazel on freedom of speech in Sweden
This is a Norwegian blog. The excerpt below is from the Tundra Tabloids – in Finland. See Israel’s former ambassador to Stockholm, Sweden, speak about Aftonbladet’s blood-libel story here. IBA News: Israel’s former ambassador to Stockholm, Zvi Mazel, currently a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Ambassador Zvi Mazel, thank you for...
La Norvège désinvestit tout en investissant dans la même société israélienne
Norway’s Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen (Socialist Left) has ordered oil fund holdings with Israeli companies to be scrutinized, in order to ascertain whether they are in violation with ethical considerations. Upon finding out that the Israeli company Elbit has delivered technology to the separation wall between Israel and Gaza, she kicked Elbit out of...
Finance Minister kicks Israeli company out of Pension Fund
The Norwegian Pension Fund is vast. It is placed in holdings throughout the globe. Jerusalem Post now alerts to how Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen (Socialist Left) has thrown the Israeli company Elbit out of the Pension Fund. See an unauthorized translation from Norwegian E24 below, here. The reason for the exclusion? The Pension...
Norway and Sweden: funding Israel’s enemies
Jerusalem Post August 19th – Gerald Steinberg writes the article Swedish government funds anti-Semitic NGO’s. As any Scandinavian will tell you, Sweden and Norway are in many ways very similar – we speak more or less the same language, hold few and shallow grudges against our neighbors, are dedicated to the idea of wealth...
Norvège: la diplomate Trine Lilleng serait promue malgré son email antisémite
Philosemitism is a Belgium-based blog which also covers Norway. The blog does quite of bit of translation, from English to French. Here is an excerpt from one of Philosemitism’s posts, – from the French edition of the Jersualem Post – on Trine Lilleng. En apprenant par le Haaretz que la diplomate norvégienne Trine Lilleng basée à...