Norway, Israel and the Jews
As expected, there is a lot of praise for Günter Grass’s missive in rhyme against Israel’s imagined plans to annihilate Iran with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. One interesting perspective comes from Sidsel Wold, for several years the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s correspondent in Israel, famous in Israel mostly for a) halting Hebrew, and b) leeching...
Sidsel Wold is triumphant these days. After her jury nullification acquittal by the Broadcasting Council and a flurry of awards and nominations, she obviously feels she can let loose on the home stretch. Her latest rant is an attempt at a survey of the political situation in Israel but is really just a poorly...
Nobody has the right to harass or abuse Sidsel Wold (or anyone else). And anyone who does is doing a disservice to the legitimate criticism she (and anyone else) deserves. It’s not just a matter of civility, it’s a matter of constructive debate. It seems that Aftenposten’s Vibeke Borgersen feels bad enough about this abuse to...
During the recent SKUP convention, one of the topics was the Norwegian media’s coverage of the Middle East. IDF’s Avital Leibovich showed up to present her side of the story. NRK’s Sidsel Wold elected to stay away, saying she would not be “dragged through the mud”. The trade journal Journalisten has an interesting article...
Hell holds no fury like that from which love has turned and no fury like that of woman scorned. NRK correspondent to the Middle East (mainly Israel) Sidsel Wold has repeatedly been accused of being biased against Israel. In the Dagens Næringsliv article above, Wold rejects the latest round of criticism, claiming that the...
This site is by no means unused to bias in Norwegian media; including NRK. The program we now have come across, by NRK’s Sidsel Wold, is one of the most biased on record. Document tipped us on this one. If you read Norwegian, pop over and read their analysis: “The authoritarian forces“.The program in...
In Norway, the short-cut to success lies in Israelbashing. Bash away, and you’ll do ok. Mads Gilbert bashed away, and he did ok. Håkon Gullvåg bashes away, and he did ok. Kåre Willoch bashes away, and he does ok. Which is no mean feat for a man his age. Another person doing ok is...
Dishonest Reporter Award 2010 lists NRK (State broadcasting authority) journalist Sidsel Wold among “other dishonorable mentions”, for “haranguing Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld during an interview, compelling the Israeli professor to fisk his own interview“. In more general terms, recognition for the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict is awarded coverage of the flotilla...
The surprising fact is not that the Israeli MFA should find the Norwegian media corps biased against Israel – it is. What is surprising is how they could have thought anything else, and for such a long time. But such is the power of wishful thinking. As recently as november 21st 2009, Israeli MFA...
NRK’s Sidsel Wold and film director Vibeke Løkkeberg are both known critics of Israel. Now they are pretending to disagree on minor issues in order to be allowed a debate where they can agree in public. Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to Israel. Vibeke Løkkeberg is a film director who, with the aide of...
In february 2010 NRK`s correspondent to Israel, Sidsel Wold, reported at length on how Israel was planning to construct a museum on top of an an ancient Muslim graveyard. It has now become clear that the graveyard was just a Palestinian hoax designed to make Israel look bad. The NRK article “Bickering over Tolerance...
The screenshot above is from an article by journalist Sidsel Wold, the State Broadcasting Authority(NRK)’s foreign correspondent to Israel. The subheading makes the following erroneous claim: “For the first time an Israeli politician has received lifeguards for protection against other politicians”. There is nothing in the article to corroborate this claim. While the article...
Yesterday this site voiced the hope that one of our Norwegian correspondents to Israel – NRK’s Sidsel Wold, Aftenposten Jørgen Lohne and Dagsavisen’s Roger Hercz – would find it in himself to pose a critical question to our ambassador – Jakken Bjørn Lian. Today Sidsel Wold rose to the occasion, posing Lian a critical...
Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East, which for all practical purposes means Israel. In the article “Taboo Jew-conflict rises to surface” (Tabaulagt jødekonflikt til overflaten) Wold writes: Like apartheid - This is very sad. It reminds me of apartheid, says Arik, a young Azkenazi male who disagrees with the battle the...
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...
NRK’s Sidsel Wold’s broadcast on the Palestinian infrastructure development of Rawabi has, after being on both radio and television, made it to NRK’s web-site here: City of hope for a future Palestine. This is old news, this site reported on economic growth on the West Bank for more than six months ago. But it...
Finnish Tundra Tabloids suggests that with Norwegian State Broadcaster NRK’s interview with Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, we are seeing a media-scandal of proportions deserving of the term “NRKgate”. In the post Is NRK biased against Israel, we found that the term is not unfitting. In this post we present a summary of the events...
April 30th: Editor of Norge.IDAG Bjarte Ystebø points out how Norwegian journalists in the mainstream media are disregarding how NRK’s correspondent to Jerusalem, Sidsel Wold, appears to have fabricated an interview with Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld. This is particularly evident as the details of the case unfolds. Unauthorized translation: NRK journalist Sidsel Wold has...
Olmert is under investigation for corruption. Norwegian journalists Laila Ø. Bakken and Sidsel Wold are following the case closely. From the comfort and safety and the hotel bars in Jerusalem. Somalia? No, they are not going to Somalia. Sudan? No, they won’t be going to Sudan anytime soon. Bakken and Wold will stay in...
Finnish Tundra Tabloids has referred to Sidsel Wold’s interview with Manfred Gerstenfeld, where the former answers her own questions and the latter only gets to speak for twenty seconds, as a”spike in high profile instances of ridiculous journalistic tomfoolery“. This is perhaps a bit strict. Sidsel Wold might very well be speaking the truth when...