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…
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Will Norwegian newspapers continue to write about Goldstone?
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As Professor McGonagall points out, Norwegian newspapers were eager to cover all aspects of Goldstone as long as he was a severe critic of Israel. Now that he has recanted, this site wagers we won’t hear much of him. Above…
When Harald Stanghelle hugged Arafat
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The screenshot above shows us page 85 from “Sykling på vannet”, a book on the history of Klassekampen (Class struggle). The underlined parts tell us of how Harald Stanghelle, today an influential editor of Aftenposten, sometime in 1984 got to…
Gaza makes front page of Klassekampen… again.
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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…
Protected: Norway suspects Israel unethical, invests in Turkmenistan
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Waage does not believe Hamas tightly connected to Iran
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Klassekampen exaggerates shortages in Gaza
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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…
Klassekampen – the anatomy of deceit
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Often you will not read an entire article. Often you will merely glance at the heading and first paragraphs. Journalists know this, and structure their articles so you read the most important parts first. Except for when the journalist does…
Klassekampen and Islamic Council join in against anti-Semitism, sort of
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Communist daily Klassekampen has little love for Israel but is pitching in against anti-Semitism – in its own way. Unauthorized translation from “We need to clean house“, with General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council – We need to…
Nuclear Vanunu love-story sells copy
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Vanunu is all over the newspapers. Again. This time it appears that he is trouble over a Norwegian woman. From an op-ed in moribund Dagsavisen: Also Norway bears a responsibility for Vanunu. It is not only the relationship with Kristin…
Ilan Pappe centerfold of communist daily Klassekampen
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When Israeli historian Benny Morris visited Norway in June, there were no journalists present at the seminar and he received only a single mention in the newspapers (DagenMagazinet). At the time, this site wagered one bottle of Upper Ten (A…
2004: Norwegian anti-war movement divided over support to suicide bombers
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Ingrid Fiskaa (Socialist Left) was recently appointed deputy to Development Minister Erik Solheim (Socialist Left). Newspapers refer to her as a “peace activist”. Yet only in 2008 Ms.Fiskaa stated how she “in dark moments” fantasized about the UN “precision bombing…
Dagbladet: Socialist radical becomes deputy minister
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Dagbladet reports that “Socialist Left radical Ingrid Fiskaa” has become deputy to Minister of the Environment and Development Erik Solheim (Socialist Left). Going back to the Saturday of April 19th 2008, we find Ms.Fiskaa admitting the following in communist daily…
Klassekampen: Why Sweden should not apologize
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Many a poor soul is baffled over how to explain his take on the Boström-scandal these days. Those who were in favor of publishing the Muhammed cartoons are now less certain whether the freedom of the press extends to the…
Spin
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In an article in Klassekampen (Class struggle) on Monday May 11th 2009, journalist Sarah Sørheim writes an interesting piece on how journalism and media-spin impacts upon politics. To what extent is her angle applicable to the manner in which the…
Anti-Israeli poem
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Poem by Hege Ramson, published in Klassekampen (Classwar) on May 12th, published in Dagsavisen on May 21st 2004, displayed by the Palestine committee here. Ariel Sharon’s robber-song I power on with tanks and planes when I go out a-pillaging I plunder…
Socialist politician: Jews suffer from empathy deficiency
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Trond Andresen is an academic working with cybernetics at NTNU in Trondheim. He was a longstanding member of the socialist RV/Rødt but left the party after attracting negative publicity for, among others, a letter to the communist daily Klassekampen (Class…
Klassekampen: Yehuda Bauer and intellectual anti-Semites
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Unauthorized translation from Klassekampen, by journalists Christiane Jordheim Larsen (text) and Greg Rødland Buick (photo). Intellectual anti-semites According to professor Yehuda Bauer the contemporary debate on anti-Semitism has led to a resurgence of the perception of jews as a homogenous…
Labor’s Eva Kristin Hansen: ‘Boycott Israel’
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The screenshot above is from communist daily Klassekampen on Wednesday April 3rd 2002. The heading reads: “Asks Norway to break the ties” and the article covers how leader of Labor Youth Eva Kristin Hansen demands that Norway boycott Israel.
1977: Israel again singled out for harassement at University of Oslo
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The article above is from Aftenposten on September 26th 1977. It tells of students form a human wall in order to stop protestors from disrupting a lecture by visiting Israeli professor Mark Perakh. Excerpt from the article’s first paragraph: Close…