Norwegian Media: Distorting the News
August 23, 2012 13:36 by GuestPostIn early 2009, a blog in English called Norway, Israel and the Jews was launched. It was established after its blogger read my 2008 book Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews. He had checked footnotes in it about Norwegian anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. To his surprise, all the quotes were correct. The blog – now managed by another blogger who writes under the pseudonym Miranda McGonagal – has become a major source of information on widespread Norwegian anti-Semitism. This largely expresses itself as anti-Israelism.
In 2009, a number of academics proposed a cultural /academic boycott of Israel to the Board of the NTNU University of Trondheim. Only on Norway, Israel and the Jews one could find detailed descriptions of how the battle against this boycott was fought by Jewish and other organizations abroad. The Norwegian media reported little and late on this boycott action, which was later voted down by the NTNU board.
One example of how the Norwegian press omits unwelcome information about the country was when in summer 2010, then-U.S. Senator Sam Brownback sent a letter to the Norwegian Ambassador in Washington. In it he expressed his worries about Norwegian anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism. Attached to it was a detailed description of anti-Semitic acts by Norwegian ministers also involving King Harald the Fifth. There was almost total silence on the letter in the Norwegian media. Yet one wonders whether another U.S. senator has ever deigned himself to address Norway on anything in this century. The Norway, Israel and the Jews blog was the first to publish the Brownback letter.
Domestic critics of Norway’s Labour dominated government were silenced even more after the mass murders by criminal Anders Breivik in July 2011. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg falsely claimed shortly thereafter that there would be even more openness (sic) and democracy in Norway. The opposite happened as has been described by American author Bruce Bawer who lives in Norway. He published a book titled The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Massacre to Silence Debate About Islam.
I can add some of my own surreal experiences with Norwegian media. An interview of me by journalist Fredrik Graesvik was aired in March 2009 by the major Norwegian commercial TV station TV2. He translated most of what I said correctly. Graesvik however interjected that I considered the Norwegians to be “barbarians and un-intellectual” because they killed whales and seals. This was a major distortion of my words.
The person at TV2 who transcribed this distorted interview for the station’s website maltreated my quotes even further, falsely claiming that I said that “Norwegians are unintelligent and barbaric” and that “Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in Europe.” The Norwegian press agency NTB spread these false quotes further. They were taken up by many Norwegian and some Swedish papers. As a result, I now own a representative collection of hate emails from Norwegians. TV2 also gave the British Holocaust distorter David Irving more than a quarter of an hour of air time to express his views. The station paid for his trip and expenses to come to Oslo.
Sidsel Wold, then-Israel correspondent from state radio NRK even outdid TV2. She interviewed me and afterwards claimed that she had mistakenly deleted the interview. Instead of interviewing me anew, she fabricated a false interview. She culled some recorded text of mine off the internet. Thereafter, she aired an invented interview with me, full of distortions and then criticized the text she had falsely attributed to me. For this she received a dishonorable mention in HonestReporting’s 2010 Dishonest Reporter Award. Thus Wold became one of those rare Norwegian journalists to actually win an international prize.
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has published 20 books, several of which deal with anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism.
Motti
2:14 pm
Aug 26, 2012
Norwegian Guy, you are so wrong. . did you not read or lesten to the reports of the Oslo riots against the Jews.? When the Oslo synagogue was fired upon, no representative from government or royalty visited the site in a show of solidarity. When Israel condemned this, she was told by your elitist fascist government to stay out of Norway’s affairs. Although, it is only right that Norway interferes so much in Israel’s security. Royaly did hiwever, finf time to visit the mosque where the Imam has repeatedly called upon the slaughter of Jews and homosexuals and naturally any Muslim who converted to Christianity.
Check out MIFF.NO and NORWAY ISRAEL AND THE JEWS. Then make statements.
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ANgela Wine
4:36 pm
Aug 26, 2012
Has the world gone mad again. The obsession with the Jews and Israel, and the media disseminating misinformation, lies and ommissions. For example why are the territories, Judea and Samaria called “occupied land” This whole area of what was Palestine was occupied by many powers, the Greeks, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Moslems, the Ottoman Empire and finally the British Mandate. , The only sovereign nation.in the history of the land was Israel. So from whom did Israel take it f? Jordan?.
Jordan was an artificial nation created by the British Mandate and attacked Israel in 1967 after Israel asked it not to participate in the war.but still it attacked Israel (continued)
Loolie
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Motti
10:23 am
Aug 27, 2012
100% correct Angela. In fact Israel placed it’s request through the Norwegian UN General Odd Bull for Jordan not to become involved. Instead, as General Bull confirmed, Hussein let his artillery attack Jeruisalem and the Tel Aviv area,
History always repeats itself and it;s time for Israel and the jewish people to be a lot more pro active
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ANgela Wine
4:47 pm
Aug 26, 2012
International Law says that in the case of a war started by a country against another, peace negotiations after a cease fire have to be carried out and land is NOT automatically returned.The security of the one attacked has to be dealt with so that it doesn’t happen again. So far this has not taken place and the land is STILL under dispute, NOT occupied. The term occupation is incorrect usage in the case of the WEST BANK (Judea and Samaria).Basically Judea and Samaria should belong to Israel, historically
Apartheid.? How dare Abbas say that not one Jew will live in what he calls “Palestine”.Is this not apartheid which is used by the press and others when referring to Israel and apartheid
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Barry
5:15 pm
Aug 26, 2012
ANgela, I fully agree with you in everything that you point out. However, what you said only applies to all the rest of the countries on the planet. We are talking about Israel, and Jews here. The standard practices do not apply. Clearly, the only democracy in the entire middle east is the only labeled apartheid. Clearly the segregations, beheadings, stonings, honor killings, the religious intolerances, the incitements to violence and the rewriting of history that are commonplace in the Arab world count for naught. It is only the actions of the Jews that are scanned under an electron microscope and then condemned. How dare a Jew defeat an enemy in a defensive war!!! Blasphemy!!!
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Barry
5:01 pm
Aug 26, 2012
Can you think of a more amenable interviewee than one’s self? To be able to ask all the “right” questions, and then receive in return, all the “right” answers with which to make one’s own point? I for one think its a brilliant strategy, so long as honesty is not a requirement of the press.
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Hannu Torkkeli
10:21 pm
Aug 26, 2012
Obsession with Jews and Israel reached a kind of peak in Finland, where Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja urged the Finnish Evangelic Luterian Church’s Foreign Aid to make a requirement that all products made in settlements in Judea and Samaria, should be marked with a label that says: This product is made in Occupied Palestinian territory. To justify this act of obsession, they claimed that the Israeli settlements in so called Westbank, would not be in accordance with the International Law. According to The Hague International Criminal Court those settlements are indeed fully in accordance with the International Law. Pathetic Mr. Tuomioja and Ms. Pauliina Liukkonen from the Church’s Aid…
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Motti
10:28 am
Aug 27, 2012
The world churches have a real problem with Jews and Israel. It is bad enough for the churches that Jews are still living and have not been wiped out completely, nor converted. and shock of horrors, how can they claim the land of Israel? What then is the point of those who believe in Christ? He was supposed to start the world afresh. Christians fear this and so their prejudice turns to hate, to boycotts, to cause distress to Jews and finally slaughter.
Tough! That is their problem and should not be ours
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J.M.Jordan
5:23 pm
Aug 28, 2012
No doubt the Norvegian government under Stoltenberg (as well as the leading party) did their best to get the people to only concentrate on Breivik’s deeds. And after what had happened it first worked. On the long run however as one Danish newspaper correctly stated the question will remain why all this was done. Much will depend on Breivik himself. If after the first triumphant relief of not having emerged as juridically inaccountable – the final verdict acknowledging him to be a political perpetrator – the years slipping by he’ll come to understand that the means he used are not allowed even if immigration laws etc definitely must change… then he’ll win over sympathies and it’ll happen!!
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Stan
9:37 pm
Aug 28, 2012
When a person thinks of politicians in Norway, one of the first to come to mind is Quisling. For those who need a reminder, Quisling was the Norweigen politician who colaborated with the Nazis.
It appears, with their support of the Palestinian terrorists, that Norweigen political thoughts have little changed since World War II. The spirit of Quisling seems to be alive and well in Norway.
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Motti
11:29 am
Sep 04, 2012
To learn of Norway’s attitude to Israel and the jewish people. Please go to the excellent blogs Norway Israel and the Jews, and MIFF in particular. There is also another very good site document.no.
The latest article about Dr Gerstenfield is shown on N I and the Jews
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Norwegische Medien verdrehen die Nachrichten « abseits vom mainstream – heplev
3:04 pm
Sep 13, 2012
[...] Manfred Gerstenfeld, HonestReporting.com, 23. August 2012 [...]
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Isabelle
3:41 pm
Sep 13, 2012
I have one word/name regarding Norway’s disgusting long-term anti-Semitic history: Quisling, Quisling, Quisling !!!
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Norwegische Medien verdrehen die Nachrichten « Medien BackSpin
6:08 pm
Sep 13, 2012
[...] Manfred Gerstenfeld, HonestReporting.com, 23. August 2012 [...]
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jim
6:21 pm
Sep 23, 2012
I totally agree. From beeing Israels number one supporter and spokesman during Trygve Lies time as leader of FN (the first leader of Fn), Norway has turned in to the opposite. Norwegian goverment helped Israel financially and with expertise. Ramona reaktor couldnt have been built without norwegian heavy vater. Mapai and the norwegian labour party AP where charing mutual respect and friendship. The entusiam was shared by the whole population and much of it must be credited Trygve Lies contribution during his leadership in Fn. His lobby activeties promoting the jewish problem and his campain toward european goverments gave fruits and lead finally to the positive attitude in 47.
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jim
6:36 pm
Sep 23, 2012
As Secretary General, Lie supported the foundations of Israel. His passionate support for Israel included passing secret military and diplomatic information to Israeli officials. A big plane accident in 49 killing 27 jewish shildren (one boy survived) outside Oslo gave a push in the strong Israeli engagement and lead to the building of the village “Moshav Norge”. The suez crisis lead to a more critical oppinion but after 67 the majority was still pro Israel. Something has radically shanged after this period. Sabra and Shatilla could be one of many factors shanging the possitive attitude. But the answer is probably more complex than just biased media covering.
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martin
11:04 am
Sep 27, 2012
I would suggest that once Israel moved politically from being run by the left to the right, that is when Norway changed.
The left traditionally supported Israel but then betrayed the trust that Israel placed in her formed friend.by openly supporting the Fakestinians who consider themselves to be in a state of war still with Israel. Shamefully, Norway has shown itself to be behind Israel’s enemies and openly supports their aims to achieve a Palestinian state while eradicaing Israel. We all know what the armistice lines of 1949 represent, Abba Eban called them the Auschwitz Lines, Norway calls for both states offcially, knowing full well what it means. Ha Aretz is an Norway’s ally in Israel
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Mohammed
8:17 am
Oct 11, 2012
I like the answer of this German Scholar when he was asked about terrorism and Islam: He said:
· Who started the First World War, which killed 37 million and injured 22, 379, 053 that includes 7 million civilians? Muslims?
· Who started the Second World War, which killed over 60 million, which was over 2.5% of the world population? Muslims?
· Who killed about 20 million of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
· Who drop the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki? Muslims?
· Who killed more than 100 million Red Indians in North America? Muslims?
· Who killed more than 50 million Indian in South America? Muslims?
· Who took about 180 million African people as slaves and when 88% of them died, threw them into the Atlantic Ocean? Muslims?
NO
They weren’t Muslims! First of all, you have to define terrorism properly…. If a non-Muslim does something bad… it is crime. But if a Muslim commits the same, he is a terrorist. So first remove the double standard… then come to the point.
*** Just for your information ***
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Jake Viitanen
10:36 am
Oct 20, 2012
Mohammed: what you wrote is so pathetic.
Frankly, to list all the insane killings of muslims, only during the 20th. cent. would require several web sites.
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