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,…
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JP: Outrage over Holocaust-denying Norwegian lawmaker
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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…
Founder of HRW criticizes HRW for moral failures in treatment of Israel
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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…
JP: Christian families in Bethlehem say Muslim thugs are persecuting them
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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…
Anti-Israel TV show angers Palestinians but will not make NRK
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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…
Analysis: Why don’t Norwegians take on anti-Semitism
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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…
Norwegian media omits good news about Israel, emphasizes the bad
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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…
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…
Norwegian ambassador invited to dialogue on Norway-Israel relations
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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…
JP ep-ed: “Are we whitewashing events in Norway?”
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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…
Jerusalem Post: Is Norway really anti-Semitic
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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…
NTNU in Tehran Times
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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…
The conspicuous silence of NTNU rector Digernes
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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…
HRW under criticism from founder
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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…
On Norwegian journalism
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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…
Zvi Mazel on freedom of speech in Sweden
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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…
La Norvège désinvestit tout en investissant dans la même société israélienne
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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…
Finance Minister kicks Israeli company out of Pension Fund
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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…
Norway and Sweden: funding Israel’s enemies
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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…
Norvège: la diplomate Trine Lilleng serait promue malgré son email antisémite
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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 –…