Too many Norwegian apparatchiks and pundits have Israel on their minds. They attribute to this little nation an exaggerated responsibility for anything that goes wrong in the Middle East, and gives it no credit for anything that goes well. Gudmund…
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Norvège: les Juifs sont agressés à Trondheim
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Courtesy of Philosemitism: La semaine passée, l’hebdomadaire Morgenbladet rapportait qu’un client avait été giflé dans un café à Trondheim car il avait refusé de dire qu’il avait honte d’avoir de la famille en Israël. Dans l’édition de cette semaine, c’est au tour d’un…
Judenhass in Trondheim
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In last week’s edition of Morgenbladet, a man wrote of how he upon visiting a cafe in Trondheim was slapped for the sin of refusing to be ashamed of having relatives in Israel. In this week’s issue, a Norwegian Jew…
Student slapped for having Israeli relatives
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Op-ed in Morgenbladet: A psychology student writes of how he tells a stranger that he has Israeli relatives, whereupon the stranger launches into a pro-Hamas harangue and slaps him. The op-ed is online in Morgenbladet. The psychology student tells of…
Alf van der Hagen and the ‘situation of the Jews in the twenties’
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In the editorial of this week’s Morgenbladet, editor Alf van der Hagen quotes a philosopher on how the situation for the Gypsies today is not unlike the situation Jews were facing in the 1920-ies. This is wrong on some many…
Decency is dead in Norway
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Gudmund Hernes is a researcher at FAFO and a professor at BI, a Norwegian business school. He is furthermore a Labor party icon. In Morgenbladet July 30th Gudmund Hernes writes a scathing review of a commentary by Aftenposten’s Jan E.Hansen.…
‘Churchill not significantly different from Hitler’
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The screenshot above is from Trond Berg Eriksen’s review of Nicholson Baker’s “Menneskerøyk” (Norwegian translation) in Morgenbladet. The review is fair enough except at times it is difficult to understand whether Eriksen is endorsing Baker’s stance or merely sketching out…
Again the lobby, ‘The promised land’ in Morgenbladet
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Above and below, a commentary on the Israel-lobby in the USA, referring mainly to the work of Walt and Mearsheimer.
The fraudulent journalism of award-winning Mohammed Omar
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On the heels of NRK’s interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld, we discover not only that award winning journalist Mohammed Omer most probably is a fraud, but that his employer Morgenbladet refuses to accept the truth of the matter. Mohammed Omer is…
‘Jews themselves wrote lists of whom were to die in concentration camps’
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The University of Oslo wants to fire a history professor – appearently for having violated its health, environment and safety (HES) code. Protesters say this has nothing to do with HES and everything to do with the Univeristy curtailing the…
Code cracked – spies listening everywhere
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Until quite recently the more ludicrous aspects of the Norwegian debate on the Middle East were a closely kept national secret, shared only by the select few who mastered Norsk, a code originally developed by the Bavarian Illuminati. Now it…
PRIO director comments upon hypocrisy – omits central facts
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Morgenbladet, July 3-9th, 2009: Stein Tønnesson from PRIO – the International Peace Research Institute- comments on Norwegian hypocrisy and manages to put put his foot in his mouth already in the very first paragraph, which runs: Why do we not protest more…
As good as it gets
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As good as it gets Retriever (a media analysis tool) show us how Norwegian newspapers cover Israel more than any other Middle Eastern state. The media’s message, implicitly or explicitly, is that a) The Palestinian refugee crisis was caused by…
Columnist upset over non-existent Israeli “anti-arab” weapon
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Morten Ströksnes is a respected Norwegian journalist and author. Like many other respected Norwegians of his trade he is willing to believe most accusations made against Israel without any unneccessary contemplation or query. In 1998 The Sunday Times reported…
Boycott Israel. Speed up the dialogue.
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While most newspapers are struggling, Morgenbladet actually reports an increase in sales. This weeks’ edition of Morgenbladet (February 20-26th) runs a full page article under the title “Boycott Israel. Speed up the dialogue”. The article is written by Hege Ramson, a member…
The return of an insult
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(This article is translated from Morgenbladet 06.02.09) A swearword returns Anti-Semitism is growing in secret, it is said. But where? We searched for the great Norwegian anti-Semitism. We found fear, rhetorical imprecision and a new old swearword. By Marius Lien An…