August 9, 2011, 3:46 AM
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In the wake of Anders Breivik's massacre of his fellow Norwegians, I was amazed at the speed with which the leftist media throughout the US and Europe used his crime as a means of criminalizing their ideological opponents on the Right. Just hours after Breivik's identity was reported, leftist media outlets and blogs were filled with attempts to blame Breivik's crime on conservative public intellectuals whose ideas he cited in a 1,500 page online manifesto.
My revulsion at this bald attempt to use Breivik's crime to attack freedom of speech propelled me to write my July 29 column, "Breivik and totalitarian democrats."
While the focus of my column was the Left's attempt to silence their conservative opponents, I also noted that widespread popular support for Palestinian terrorists in Norway indicates that for many Norwegians, opposition to terrorism is less than comprehensive.
To support this position, I quoted an interview in Maariv with Norway's Ambassador to Israel Svein Sevje.
Sevje explained that most Norwegians think that the Palestinians' opposition to the supposed Israeli "occupation" is justified and so their lack of sympathy for Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism was unlikely to change in the wake of Breivik's attack on Norwegians.
Since my column was a defense of free speech and a general explanation of why terrorism is antithetical to the foundations of liberal democracy - regardless of its ideological motivations - I did not focus my attention on Norwegian society. I did not discuss Norwegian anti- Semitism or anti-Zionism. Indeed, I purposely ignored these issues.
But when on Friday, Norway's Deputy Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide published an unjustified attack on me on these pages, he forced me to take the time to study the intellectual and political climate of hatred towards Israel and Jews that pervades Norwegian society.
That climate is not a contemporary development. Rather it has been a mainstay of Norwegian society.
In a 2006 report on Jew hatred in contemporary Norwegian caricatures published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Erez Uriely noted among other things that Norway banned kosher ritual slaughter in 1929 - three years before a similar ban was instituted in Nazi Germany.
And whereas the ban on kosher ritual slaughter was lifted in post-war Germany, it was never abrogated in Norway.
As Uriely noted, Norway's prohibition on Jewish ritual slaughter makes Judaism the only religion that cannot be freely practiced in Norway.
Fascism was deeply popular in Norway in the 1930s. In the wake of the Nazi invasion, Norwegian governmental leaders founded and joined the Norwegian Nazi Party. Apparently, sympathy for Nazi collaborators is strong today in Norway.
As the JCPA's Manfred Gerstenfeld noted in a report on the rise in Norwegian anti-Semitic attacks during 2009, two years ago the Norwegian government allocated more than $20 million in public funds to commemorate Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun on the occasion of the Nobel laureate for literature's 150th birthday. As The New York Times reported, in February 2009, Norway's Queen Sonja opened the, "year-long, publicly financed commemoration of Hamsun's 150th birthday called 'Hamsun 2009.'"
But while Hamsun may have been a good writer, he is better remembered for being an enthusiastic Nazi. Hamsun gave his Nobel prize to Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels. During a wartime visit to Germany, Hamsun flew to meet Adolf Hitler at Hitler's mountain home in Bavaria.
And in 2009, Norway built a $20 million museum to honor his achievements.
As Uriely explained in his report, "Norwegian anti- Semitism does not come from the grassroots but from the leadership - politicians, organization leaders, church leaders, and senior journalists. It does not come from Muslims but from the European-Christian society."
Despite indignant claims that the two are unrelated, Norway's elite anti-Semitism merges seamlessly with their anti-Zionism. An apparently unwitting example of this fusion is found in Eide's attack against me in last Friday's Post.
Eide's attack on me revolved around my citation of Ambassador Sevje's interview with Maariv. In his column Eide wrote, "Several other Israeli media have latched on to this [interview] as well."
While this may be true, I first learned of Sevje's interview in the US media. Specifically, I read about the interview at Commentary Magazine's website, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's website, and the website of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) before I read the original interview on Maariv's website.
Commentary, JTA and CAMERA are not Israeli organizations or outlets. They are Jewish American organizations and outlets. Eide's conflation of them with the "Israeli media" indicates that the deputy minister has a hard time separating Jews from Israelis, (and by extension, Jew hatred from Israel hatred).
One of the Jewish Americans who attacked the Norwegian ambassador's willingness to distinguish between Palestinian terrorist murderers of Israelis and Breivik's terrorist murder of Norwegians was Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz said, "I know of no reasonable person who has tried to justify the terrorist attacks against Norway. Yet there are many Norwegians who not only justify terrorist attacks against Israel, but praise them, support them, help finance them and legitimate them."
In March Dershowitz experienced Norway's elite anti- Semitism-qua-anti-Zionism firsthand. Dershowitz was brought to Norway by a pro-Israel group to conduct lectures at three Norwegian universities. All three university administrations refused to invite him to speak. Student groups acting independently of their university administrations in the end invited Dershowitz to give his lectures.
As Dershowitz explained in a Wall Street Journal article, he was the victim of an unofficial Norwegian university boycott of Israeli universities. The unofficial boycott is so extensive that it bans not only Israeli academics, but non-Israeli, Jewish academics that are pro-Israel.
And lest someone believe Norway's anti-Jewish boycott is due to the so-called "occupation," as Dershowitz pointed out, the petition calling for an academic boycott of Israel begins, "Since 1948 the state of Israel has occupied Palestinian land."
The Norwegian elite's rejection of Israel's right to exist, and ban on pro-Israel Jewish speakers from university campuses goes a long way in explaining Norway's support for Hamas. If Norway's opposition to Israel was merely due to its size, rather than its very existence, it would be difficult to understand why Norway maintains friendly contact with Hamas. Hamas is after all a genocidal, terrorist group, which like the Nazis seeks the annihilation of the Jewish people as a whole. Yet Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store wrote an article justifying his relations with Hamas as in line with Norway's embrace of "dialogue."
As Store's deputy Eide's unrestrained and unjustified attack against me, and as Norway's academic - and to a large degree media - boycott of pro-Israel voices make clear, Norway's embrace of dialogue is as selective as its condemnation of terrorism.
Here we should recall that Norway's ruling class supported Hamas against Israel in Operation Cast Lead.
Israel's dovish Kadima government only began the operation in Gaza because it had no choice. For months then prime minister Ehud Olmert sat on his hands as southern Israel was pummeled with unprovoked barrages of thousands of missiles and rockets from Gaza. Olmert was forced to take action after Hamas massively escalated its rocket and missile attacks in November and early December 2008.
While silent about Palestinian aggression, Norway's government attacked Israel for defending itself. As Store put it, "The Israeli ground offensive in Gaza constitutes a dramatic escalation of the conflict. Norway strongly condemns any form of warfare that causes severe civilian suffering, and calls on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately."
Two of Store's associates, Eric Fosse and Mads Gilbert, decamped to Gaza during Cast Lead and set up shop in Shifa Hospital. The two were fixtures in the Norwegian media, which constantly interviewed them throughout the conflict, and so spread their libelous charges against the IDF without question.
Fosse and Gilbert never mentioned that Hamas's high command was located at the hospital in open breach of the laws of war.
When they returned home, they co-authored a book in which they accused the IDF of entering Gaza with the express goal of murdering women and children.
Store wrote a blurb of endorsement on the book's back cover.
Store visited Israel in January. During his visit he gave an interview to the Post where he ignored diplomatic protocol and attacked the Knesset's contemporaneous decision to form a parliamentary commission of inquiry into foreign funding of anti-Zionist Israeli NGOs.
The basic rationale for the commission was that Israelis have a right to know that many purportedly Israeli groups are actually foreign organizations staffed by local Israelis. And many of the most virulently anti-Zionist NGOs staffed by Israelis operating in Israel are funded by the Norwegian government. Store arrogantly opined, "I think it is a worrying sign" about the state of Israeli democracy.
During Operation Cast Lead, Oslo was the scene of unprecedented anti-Semitic rioting. According to Eirik Eiglad, protesters who participated in anti-Israel demonstrations - and even a supposedly pro-peace demonstration - called out "Kill the Jews" and attacked policemen who tried to prevent them from rioting. Demonstrators at a pro-Israel demonstration were beaten. The Israeli embassy was threatened. Pro-Israel politicians who participated in the pro-Israel rally were beaten and received death threats.
It is a fact that the day before Breivik's massacre of teenagers at the Labor Party's youth camp on Utoya Island, Store spoke to them about the need to destroy Israel's security fence. The campers role-played pro- Hamas activists breaking international law by challenging Israel's lawful maritime blockade of the Gaza coastline.
They held signs calling for a boycott of Israel.
Despite their obvious animosity towards Israel and sympathy for genocidal, Jew hating Hamas terrorists, at no point did I or any of my Jerusalem Post colleagues do anything other than condemn completely Breivik's barbaric massacre of his fellow Norwegians. And yet, the Norwegian government attacked us for merely pointing out in various ways, that Norway should not use Breivik's attack as justification for further weakening Norwegian democracy.
Following the massacre, the Post published a well-argued, empathetic editorial making these general points. In response, the paper was deluged by unhinged attacks claiming that the editorial was insensitive and excused Breivik's crimes. In response, the Post published a follow-up editorial last Friday apologizing to the Norwegian people for the earlier editorial.
I was not consulted about this editorial ahead of time, and the editorial does not reflect my views. However I understand the moral impulse of not wishing to pour salt on anyone's wounds, which stood behind the decision to write it.
For my part, I will not request a similar apology from the Norwegian government for gratuitously attacking me. I will not request a similar apology from the Norwegian government and elites for libelously defaming my military, my country and my people. I will not request a similar apology from Norway for limiting Jews' freedom of religion in Norway. I will not request a similar apology from Norway for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and celebrating Norwegian Nazis.
I will not request such an apology because there are certain actions that are simply unforgivable.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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Your exposition of the true nature of Norway's dark sympathies is sure to anger them as the MSM has covered it up for so long.
The true face is quite ugly and evil.
When the Oslo process started in the early 90's that should have been a red flag for every Jew.
This hatred of the Jews and Israel is a global crime against humanity that has only grown since the OSLO 'process' began.
What the blind oh so civilized haters of Norway fail to grasp is that their suffering has only begun.
Those nations who meddle against Israel have a divide promise attached to their deeds and we can see it unfolding now in the U.K especially London,long a bastion of of anti-Israel and Jew hate.
They will have to busy themselves now with arrest warrants for local homegrown anarchists instead of Israeli government officials.
The world is being cut into pieces economically to start with.
There is no Arab spring only the scorpion sting.
The U.S. for their part in leading the dividing up of Israel and Jerusalem for their counterfeit peace is now being whittled down a few notches
and will soon see the anarchy and barbarism of London in it's cities.
it's only going to get worse for the nation's who go out of their way to reward ISLAMIC violence,intolerance and hate at the cost of the peace and freedom loving Jewish people.
'For I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts, A destruction determined even upon the whole earth.'
Isaiah 28:22b
It's time for Israel and all Jews to stop apologizing.
The Meridor's and Barak's need to find another profession as they only feed the dragon.
Rest assured Caroline ,you are not fighting this battle alone, there is a God of justice and He is busy settling the score.
Norway as all the nations will come(too late) to regret their evil deeds against Israel and the Jewish people.
'And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
Zechariah 12:3
Thank you Caroline for your continued insightful writing.
I can´t say I support your opinion of Norway and FYI - The "fancy" little picture you got going on the top here is btw of another political organisation in Norway - not the ones that where on Utoya
Caroline, excellent as always. The history of antisemitism in Norway runs long and deep. Why are there still any Jews there? Why are we still involved with this renegade country? While we cannot condone Anders Breivik's actions, some might say this is retribution from G-d for Norway's ongoing hatred against Jews and Israel. Any apology that we might receive would be an empty one as their actions speak louder than words and they are unforgivable.
Well said! But no mention of Quisling in the context of the twenties in Norway? If Quisling was a famous traitor by turning over Norway to the Nazis, then somewhere there must have been Norwegians resisting the anti-semitic thesis of Nazism. Although, anti-semitism comes in different varieties and being anti-Nazi doesn't necessarily mean you are not anti-semitic. Many communists were anti-semitic, for example.
The story of Hamsun is an interesting case. There is an excellent movie on the subject, "Hamsun", and it is honest without being sympathetic or romantic about the man. It is telling that for all that he is a subject of dispute, there is very little discussion of his work. He was a novelist. If he was an articulate Nazi, one might imagine that it would show up more in his work. Was he a Wagner? No. He was a bit of a fool and perhaps we can hope that Norwegians in general are suffering similarly. Many anti-semites are fools, but being a fool is a condition easily cured and once better behavior is observed, easily forgiven.
Breivik was not just a fool, he was a complete idiot and passionate too and look where it got him. It is a good opportunity for a reality check for all Norwegians.
Thank you Marcel (and Caroline). There are only around 1000 Jews in Norway, yet the Establishment there is viciously anti-Semitic. Instead of targeting Jews, they should focus more on their Muslim 'guests' and their antics. Likewise in London - it's burning (on Tisha B'Av no less) and the city which is an epicentre of anti-Israel protests and propaganda is seeing the worst riots in 26 years. The British government criticises Israel whenever there's agitation from the Pals - now us Brits are seeing similar problems of unrest. Middah k'neged middah indeed.
Thank you Caroline. Again, I read your articles and am blessed by your Holy boldness and publishing the truth. There are more with you than you realize. Without yielding to God and His will, one can not help but manifest evil eventually.
Thank you for your work exposing the cancer of anti-Semitism and for championing freedom, especially for Israel. Never let these terror enablers shut you up!
Hello Caroline...Thanks for your insights about Norway, I always wondered where Quisling came from. Perhaps many of the Norse people have similar prejudices.
Did you receive my 'OSAMABAMA' essay yet, it explains why Osamabama is prejudiced against America and Israel and is trying to destroy us both. Please let me know.
We all need to stand strong--and if the world doesn't like then screw 'em.
Phil Bronner
Caroline, wouldn't it be interesting to know where this entrenched anti-semitism in the high north originates? It makes good sense to remind us of the symptoms - but what is the underlying
cause? Because it clearly shows how anti-semitism by the leading classes is systematically transposed into the minds of the young. This is something we better understand and counter where possible, as it is likely to become more wide-spread throughout the west.
Those teenagers and young adults wouldn't know a jid from a brit if not someone did a grand job at indoctrination from a young age.
Wasn't the photo at the beginning of your article taken at this very socialist youth camp where Breivik conducted his slaughtering?
You didn't mention his name, but around the world the Norwegian Vidgun Quisling is still remembered as THE proverbial traitor and collaborateur.
In Holland Dr. Corine de Ruiter (Professor of Forensic Psychology at Maastricht University)
http://www.corinederuiter.eu/
surprized us when she rejected on television to play the obvious leftish policor card to blame freedom fighter Geert Wilders for Utoya but instead blamed the Norwegian police etc.
However today she wrote a column in the leftish Christian Daily Newspaper Trouw and in Joop.nl http://www.joop.nl/opinies/detail/artikel/wilders_is_gewelddadig_alleen_niet_fysiek/
that although dr. Ruiter admits that judge Marcel van Oosten acquited islam critique mr. Wilders from all the accusations she now says that: "Yet he (Mr Wilders), hurted people psychologically"
I had the Professor higher.
Since Ayaan Hirshi Ali and "Submission" filmmaker Theo van Gogh it is my opinion that in the materialistic - based on empirical evidence - the socalled "Hurt" induced by the Mohamedans are feigned and fabricated by mohamedans themselves.
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[Given the importance the enemy’s (islam) doctrine attaches to information dominance evident in the legitimacy shariah assigns to lying and taqiyya, it is hardly surprising that this threat doctrine also seeks through other means keep the harbi unaware of the true character and intentions of shariah’s adherents. In fact, Islamic law provides, in tandem with the right (described above) to deceive harbi, an enforceable requirement to make disclosure of those rules of Islam a punishable offense.
This is among the purposes of the shariah concept of SLANDER, which differs significantly from its Western counterpart.
Reliance of the Traveler has the following relevant passages (emphasis added throughout):
• “Slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike
- page 61 http://europenews.dk/files/Shariah%20-%20The%20Threat%20to%20America%20(Team%20B%20Report)%2009142010.pdf ]
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"Blasphemic" words are merely air molecules against the eardrums of the stoic Mohamedan and are merely converted into electrons before these electrons reach his brain. The hatred has been insinuated into the brain of every single mohamedan in the madrassa ... before there is any consciousness of blasphemy ..
The crime of hatred against jews by mohamedans is commited before the critique against the abject islam is made publick ... The true causality is falsly reversed by the filthy mind that wrote the quran of the islam.
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Quote from dr. de Ruiter: "In forensic psychology, we investigate the psychological causes and effects of violence. We distinguish between different types of violence, ranging in severity: verbal abuse (ie, name calling, hurtful comments) verbal threat (eg threatening to hurt someone physically, saying that another will do) and physical violence (eg beat someone or knife stabbing).
Looking at the expressions of Wilders about Islam and Muslims through this psychological 'yardstick' record, they fall mainly under verbal abuse, and in some cases by verbal threats. The step after that is physical violence"
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One Patroze (in Trouw) disects dr.de Ruiter just right.
"First: Psychology is not science in the way physics and chemistry are. It is a" soft "science. Forensic Psychology is inside this branch with a relatively even more limited scientific quality..
What the author (dr. Corine de Ruiter) does in her comparison of Wilders with her clients in the psychiatric criminals in her clinic is downright filthy and probably (part of) the explanation why it does not get along with forensic psychology in the first place.
(Wow, Wilders used as MKULTRA guinee pig to boost subsidy for dr. Mengele !)
Patroze: "The clients in the hospital clinic are not there because of "verbal abuse" or "verbal threats". That the clinic apparently used look alike means of expression as a diagnostic agent for their patients ... well, it is well known that a large contingent "psychopaths according to clinical criteria" are on the loose in society and working properly. In shirt: dr.de ruiter's story is nonsense. Poorly thought through and not founded."
The double standard in regards to Israel is outrageous. NEVER do you hear about how the PA violates the spirit and substance of the Oslo Accords. No mainstream news media condemns the PA when their duplicity is exposed. We only hear condemnations when Israel has to defend itself. (Of course the target of the condemnations is Israel.) You would think that Israel acts in a vacuum from the reports. The international media have ignored the indoctrination of hate that goes on in the schools of the PA. The underhanded funding of terrorism is also never reported.
I believe anti-semitism is part of the witch's brew that drives the radical Left. The other part is Edward Said's Orientalism whose pernicious influence has been a corrosive acid on Middle Eastern studies. His minions have taken over the academy; they are the ones who are teaching our children about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Despite the efforts of some scholars to discredit many of Said's ideas, he is a guiding light among the Left.
1st, I'm not Solomon.
However, I'm surprised so many people are confused about antisemitism.
If you read the Jewish scriptures, you find that the devil caused the downfall of Adam and Eve. Because of that, the Jewish scriptures say, each person is born with a "sinful nature".
God's kingdom struck back, starting with Abraham, but the devil will never quit attacking what God started with Abraham (though God's kingdom continues to grow among humans (as Daniel's dream said it would)).
So antisemitism is the result of the devil working though the human "sin nature" to attack God's kingdom (which the Jews and Israel are involved with).
It's simple if you trust the Jewish scriptures, but "impossible" to see and understand if you don't.
Why does the Judenrat State maintain diplomatic relations with Norway and allow Norwegians into Israel?
Dear Caroline,
I believe what you said about leftist in Norway, can be said for many people in many nations. The leftist seem to rationalize, if Jews, Christians, or conservatives are being terrorized, they deserve it. But if their hit, the people they hate, has to be at fault. As so often is, people of their own persuasion are the guilty party. As you know, wall to wall coverage of blaming others before the truth comes out, does its intended damage. Sad to think many of them are called journalist. Honest and truthful reporting, is hard to come by. God bless you, your doing a great job.
Ivan
It's only begun,God's promise to cut in pieces any and all who meddle with His agenda for Israel and Jerusalem.
On the Jewish remembrance of Tisha B' Av this year London burned and the U.S. economy took a kick in the groin.
God is letting his people know that He is angry with ALL the Nations.
I will start with the New Zealand earthquake which brought great death and destruction to Christ Church.
They jumped on the bash,attack,abuse Israel bandwagon with the Mossad/passports issue while always turning a blind eye to the never ending Islamic atrocities against Israel.
Israel has every right to target every single murderer of Jews without apology to anyone !
Symbolic but hard to miss for alert believers - Judgment begins at the house of God.
And then we had the major 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit north eastern Japan.
They've had a love affair with the bloodthirsty murders of Jews,the so called Palestinian people for some time, funding (this treacherous,evil death cult which even the blind can see do not want any real peace with Israel) with millions and millions of Yen even after they learned that they teach their babies to hate and kill Jews.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/middle_e/palestine/index.html
Now they are so busy with their crumbling,radioactive economy that there is some hope that their support for the Pals will dry up.
That would be a wise move.
On to Norway where Israel is always portrayed as the bad party while the intolerant ,hate fed and led death worshiping cult of the false prophet Mohammed are always portrayed as the poor innocent victims.
For this Norway gets the mark of evil and devoted resurgent Nazi's of 2011
One of their own blue eyed, blond children murdered 77 of his brothers and sisters as the once stable fabric of Norway now shows early signs of being cut in pieces.
The list continues to grow with the U.K. receiving the promise of God on those who assume to divide Jerusalem and Israel to evil Islam.
London has had more fires of destruction than since the Nazi blitzkrieg of WWII and the mindless violence has only begun to cut in pieces what is left of terminal Britain.
Moving along to the U.S. which is slowly collapsing under an evil leader who follows the Bush,Clinton,Bush syndicate of evil against Israel with their counterfeit 2 state peace scam,(all intended to destroy Israel by the fakepeace process)
The killer Joplin,Mo tornado cut the city in half after Tuscaloosa,Alabama was hard hit in the most severe tornado outbreak ever along with mass flooding ,droughts,fires as severe heat continues to bake the sleeping,perverted, sodomite nation headed for the ash heap of history.
The U.S. which leads this evil agenda against Israel masquerades as a friend,but it is Israel's greatest foe and will suffer the greatest of all. in one hour (America) Babylon is fallen.Jeremiah 51
The Holy One of Israel is sending a message to all the Nations.
He keeps His word !
'It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured(cut in pieces). And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.'
Zechariah 12:3
That day is here!
Caroline, Excellent column!
Dear Caroline
I hope you read this.
You were a bit carried away this time, I believe. The picture you present about Norway is only half the truth. The other half is that there are, and were, many decent, good, truth seeking Norwegians. Your article focuses on the bad part but ignores the good. You ignore the Norwegians that fought the Nazis in the resistance movement, in the commercial ship fleet (joining Britain), in the allied armies. You ignore the Norwegian king's flight to Britain and his clear call to his people to resist the Nazis, which was followed by very many (who won in the end). You also ignore present day good Norwegians like leader of the opossition party Siv Jensen and her followers.
Your criticism applies to the Norwegian Facists and leftists, but not to all the Norwegians. You should distinguish between those Norwegians who are your enemies (like the ones in the Norwegian government) to the ones who are not.
'The picture you present about Norway is only half the truth. The other half is that there are, and were, many decent, good, truth seeking Norwegians'
Yes,yes of course,the meaningless,impotent,dead silent half,we have them here also in the U.S. and like you most of the time they hide behind anonymity or come here and tell us how much they care,in secret of course.
just me
Here are two links which can give an impression (for those who care to read them) of the good side of Norway.
A speech given by Siv Jensen in 2009 in a pro Israel rally in Norway (Oslo?). One key sentence: "What I do support is Israel’s right to exist and it’s right to defend its people."
http://www.frp.no/Siv+Jensen+%E2%80%93+Speech+for+Rally+in+Support+of+Israel+2009.d25-TgtvSZI.ips
And a story from the bad old days of WWII.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02brooks.html
As a Norwegian this makes me very sad to read. First of all I feel terrible that you have got this impression of my country. And the sad thing about that is that all myths got some truth in it, and there is definitely some truths in your article, but there is also some fundamentally erroneous conclusions.
According to international law, there is an occupation going on in Palestine, and this is the main focus in Norway. This is the main issue, and this is the main "injustice" that drives the forces in which the kids in your picture are part of.
Norwegians (in the very general) see a two-state solution as the best way ahead, and see the internationally defined borders as the reasonable starting point. And most people are provoked by the wall, the expansion, the organised bombings. And - importantly - most people do not sympathise with the Palestinian bombing, but with the cause. The fight against an oppressor.
Yes, the media is probably more "leftist" than "conservative", but there are no antisemitism. The coverage might be more Palestinian-focused, but in general it is very neutral in language and presentation. We are presented with an oppression. Maybe it is what it is. Maybe it is self-defense. Probable both. I have not been there, and do not know really.
But it is Israel, the state, and not Jews, that is being accused. That is a fundamental and important difference, and you are (luckily) wrong to draw a picture of Norway as a antisemitic society.
Yes, we too had our dark moments in history. 771 Jews was deported from Norway during the war. Few survived. And we were late in even allowing Jews to live in the country. That was another Norway. In post-war Norway the sympathies for the Jewish people and the right of an Israeli state has been extremely strong. And it is even today. But now the feeling that the oppressed have turned into the oppressors growing stronger.
Concerning Hamsun, there was a extensive and heated debate (and there really is still) about whether or not to differentiate between Hamsun the writer and Hamsun the person. As Norway is a small country and Hamsun's literary workings is quite important to us as he is actually a great writer, we chose to separate the life he lived and the sympathies he had from the books he produced. This is still controversial, but it is an ok solution, as he is at the same time remembered as the nazi-sympathiser he was at a time.
Someone was mentioning Vidkun Quisling, and he, along with tens of other traitors, was executed (we don't do that in Norway, even Breivik is facing a maximum 22-years sentence) after the war, and are even today talked about with shame and despise. In Quislings enormous residence in Oslo there is a center and museum for Holocaust and the treatment of minorities, with a very thorough section about the Norwegian role in the deportations.
The real facts about the academic boycott can be found here: http://www.akulbi.net/index_en.php
Now I can't use more time, at 2:30 in the morning. But really I hope you, and others who read this, will get a more nuanced view of the situation. And not confuse opposition against the occupation with antisemitism.
I am myself a Norwegian national, and can only say that I am appalled by the anti-Israeli, not to say anti-Jewish bias that persist in Norwegian society, mostly coming from the Left-leaning elites and from our Islamic community. The roots of this are diverse, from Luther's virulent Jew-Hatred(Lutheranism remaining the State Religion in Norway) via Commism's and Socialism's natural antagonism to The "Old" Religion, to the influx of new citizens from Islamic states like Pakistan and Somalia, with Islam's natural jealousy to all things Jewish.
Though I CAN say that many people in the lay Christian movements in Norway are very much opposed to official policies, and quite Israel-friendly, these are usually marginalized and ridiculed in Norwegian public discourse, dominated by materialist atheism.
Though I am too young to have lived through it I am profoundly ashamed by Norway's lack of effort to save our Jewish community from the grasp of Nazism during the 2nd World War, and believe we have A LOT to learn from our neigbours and brothers in Denmark in this regard.
I am by no means uncritical of the State of Israels actions and policy in recent decades however, but I have a great understanding for the existential fear that its citizens are facing on a daily basis in the face of mortal enemies that will only be satisified by its complete annihilation.
In conjunction we of course hear of increased anti-semitic activity all over Europe, also in Scandinavia, no doubt, much of it based on the religious precepts of our new citizens, so I feel great sympathy for the plight of European Jewry at the moment, I understand that many of them are moving to the Oceania, the Americas, and Israel, thereby draining Europe of much of its vibrant creativity.
I believe you are actually somewhat mistaken in your analysis of Mr. Breivik, he may be an idiot, but he is also an intelligently calculating cynic, believing that the only way to force the violent political upheavals that he craves, is to so irreversibly destroy the opportunity for political dissent from the current touchy-feely multi-cultural agenda as to foment a violent revolution in Norway by non-political means, as a method to start the big ethnic cleansing of European Muslims he deems crucial to National survival. His LUNATIC methodology has done immense harm to the future political debate in this country and may have already irreversibly damaged the freedom of speech here.