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The PJ Tatler » Anti-semitism in Norway

pjmedia.com9/16/11

“Anti-Semitism in Norway, and the expression of anti-Semitic comments, has increased since the Gaza war. The small Norwegian Jewish community is wary of being targeted, and 'Jew' has become more popular as an epithet …

Norway Embraces Islamist Tyranny :: Hudson New York

www.hudson-ny.org11/16/11

Anti-Semitism in Norway, where I have lived for twelve years, is over the top. I have never quite gotten used to it. Every now and then I hear or read something that reminds me that I am living in Europe, in a country that was …

DR.MANFRED GERSTENFELD

“This is what the Norwegian political, academic and for the most part, media elite, would prefer to sweep under the carpet. These are the facts people, anti-Semitism is rife in Norway though they would have you to believe that they’ve cornered the market on humanitarianism. They haven’t, but they are specialists in humanitarian racism, or the soft racism of lowered expectations!”.

Since the horrific Oslo and Utoya killings, there has been increased media attention on the long-term multi-faceted anti-Israeli incitement by the Norwegian government, and the country’s cultural elite.

Terror More Justified Against Israel?!

After the murder the Norwegian Ambassador to Israel, Svein Sevje, implied in an interview that, "Palestinian terror against Israelis is more justified than terror against Norwegians".

But a few days after a critique by Alan Dershowitz, who wrote:

"I can’t remember many other examples of so much nonsense in such short an interview".

Sevje told Haaretz:

"The history of Norway vis -a-vis Israel is one of great support.

Norway’s Support Of Terror Against Israel

In 2002, several members of the 1994 Norwegian Nobel Committee who granted the Nobel Peace Prize to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat i.e. Bishop Gunnar Stlsett, Sissel Rnbeck, and former Norwegian Prime Minister Odvar Nordli, expressed their disappointment in Peres, and a fourth member, Hanna Kvanmo, said she wished there was a way to take the prize back from Peres.

Kvanmo also said Peres was on the verge of being considered guilty of war crimes, but she didn’t mention Arafat.

*Kvanmo was a Nazi collaborator who was jailed after World War II, but the Socialist Left party selected her for the Nobel Prize Committee, which is made up of political appointees.

Then bishop of Oslo Stlsett did describe the involvement of Nobel Laureate Peres in human rights abuses as “absurd” but he also remained silent about Yasser Arafat, and the Jerusalem Post published an article noting that the members of the Nobel Committee still stood by their choice of Arafat.

N.B. By that time, Israel had publicized a list of the terrorist operatives that Arafat financed, and also revealed that his signature was on the page listing the amounts paid to the murderers.

AUF – The Workers Youth League

Last month, just one day before the murders in Oslo and Utoya, Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere spoke at the anti-Israel incitement camp of the AUF, the youth organization of his Labor party.

He called for the dismantling of Israel’s security barrier even though he knew well that it was built to prevent further murderous Palestinian terror attacks.

* The AUF was formed in April 1927, following the merger of Left Communist Youth League and Socialist Youth League of Norway and its ideology is social democracy and democratic socialism. Its current leader is Eskil Pedersen and many former leading figures in the AUF have gone on to serve in positions in government, such as the incumbent Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg.

The Lutheran Church

Even though it acknowledges the threat of terror against Israel, Norway’s Lutheran Church still demands that Israel’s security barrier be dismantled.

The Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) receives major funding from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry and one can debate whether it is only soft on terror, or an indirect terror promoter, but following the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2006, the NCA criticized the Norwegian government for, "withdrawing economic support" for the "Hamas government".

The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) did the same thing. It is one of the largest and most highly regarded of Norway’s humanitarian and development NGOs and is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The NPA website promotes the, "Stop the Wall Campaign in Norway".

No Hamas In The Hospital?!

Two extreme left-wing doctors, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, went to Gaza during the Cast Lead War in 2008-2009, claiming that they wanted to provide medical assistance to the Palestinians.

Gilbert and Fosse later failed to mention that the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza where they worked had been used for military purposes by Hamas, but to their embarrassment it later became known that Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and other Hamas executives took over an entire ward of that hospital during the war.

After the September 11 attacks, Gilbert stated that he supported the terrorist attacks on the United States.

He and Fosse were interviewed extensively by the Norwegian and world press, and made serious accusations against Israel and according to Norway’s largest paper Verdens Gang, their trip to Gaza was paid for by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.

The Deputy Minister Of The Environment

Finally, there is Deputy Minister of the Environment, Ingrid Fiskaa, who delights in visions of terrorism against Israel.

A year before she entered the government, Fiskaa told a newspaper that she:

"sometimes dreams about the United Nations firing rockets into Israel".

Following the brutal murders of their own, one can only hope that the above anti-Semites will now reconsider their attitude towards Jews and terror.

It’s doubtful however that they will change it towards Jews, because that attitude hasn’t changed since WW2 and before!

MidEastTruth :: View topic – Hamas and Fatah: The Unity …

mideasttruth.com11/30/11

In many ways, the status quo is not all bad for Fatah and Hamas. The two parties have, in fact, a common interest in maintaining the status quo for as long as ever. For Fatah, which is in control of large parts of the West Bank, …

Obama: No ally more important than Israel | TRUTH in Context

www.truthincontext.com12/1/11

Obama faced criticism from some Jewish leaders earlier this year when he insisted that any negotiations on the borders of a future Palestinian state begin on the basis of lines that existed before Israel captured the West Bank …

The following video hopefully makes clear when and how the terms "West Bank", "Occupied territories" and "67 Borders" originated, and also shows their inaccuracies.

It’s aim is to make clear how the terms are very often incorrectly used, and applied.

Your feedback is very welcome!