[Ifroham4]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...103213,00.html

[o]ne can provide many examples of Norway’s accommodation of anti-Israeli terror, with this is being executed in three ways. The first method entails applying double standards and being soft on terror by criticizing Israel, while mentioning little or nothing about murderous Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and Hamas’ genocidal program. The second entails statements that indirectly encourage terrorism. The third method is financing organizations that do the same.

Regarding the first method: 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 Stålsett, Sissel Rønbeck, and former Norwegian Prime Minister Odvar Nordli - expressed their disappointment in Peres. A fourth member, Hanna Kvanmo, said she wished there was a way to take the prize back from Peres. She also said Peres was on the verge of being considered guilty of war crimes.

Kvanmo was jailed after World War II, as a Nazi collaborator. Nevertheless, the Socialist Left party had selected her for the Nobel Prize Committee, which is comprised of political appointees. Then-bishop of Oslo Stålsett described the involvement of Nobel Laureate Peres in human rights abuses as absurd. He remained silent about Yasser Arafat, who had continued to order the murder of Israeli civilians even after he had received the Peace Prize. In 2004, the Jerusalem Post published an article noting that the members of the Nobel Committee still stood by their choice of Arafat. By that time, Israel had publicized a list of the terrorist operatives Arafat financed and showed that his signature was on the page listing the amounts paid to the murderers.”

Modern-day blood libel

Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) did the same. 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. Its website promotes the “Stop the Wall Campaign” in Norway.
Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse, two extreme left-wing doctors, came to Gaza during the Cast Lead War in 2008-2009, claiming that they wanted to provide medical assistance to the Palestinians. 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. According to Norway’s largest paper Verdens Gang, their trip to Gaza was paid for by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.

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. One should pay attention to similar statements in the future, in order to identify those Norwegians who have learned nothing from the horrific murders of so many of their fellow citizens by “one of their own.”

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has published 20 books. Two of these address Norwegian anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism

[MannoFr]

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145473

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...-are-anti.html
From news article:
Last month’s publication of a study ordered by the Oslo municipality on racism and anti-Semitism among students of the 8th through 10th grades in the town’s schools came as a shock. The study found that 33 percent of the Jewish students regularly experience bullying at school. According to the definition used, this means that at least two or three incidents of verbal or physical abuse target these Jewish students per month.

It would be hard to find similarly extreme data anywhere else in Western Europe. The study also rendered it difficult to blame anti-Semitism exclusively on Muslim children, as it became evident that autochthonous Norwegians are also heavily involved.

After Jews, the next most pestered group was Buddhists, with 10 percent experiencing bullying; “Others” were at 7 percent and Muslims at slightly over 5 percent. Fifty-one percent of all students believe that the term “Jew” is used pejoratively, 41percent had heard ethnic jokes about Jews and 35 percent heard insulting comments. Close to 5 percent had been present when the Holocaust was denied in class. Only 25 percent of the students never witnessed anything negative about Jews in school.[1]

All this happens in a country where among a general population of about 5 million, the membership of the organized Jewish community is only 800. The total number of Jews in the country which includes Israelis, who often leave after a few years, is estimated at 2,000.

[Lt_Apple]

I hope Norway isn't expecting sympathy from Jews, after one of their own recently gunned down some of their elite kids. For a country with only 800 active Jews, they they score pretty badly in their behavior.

[Lt_Apple]

I hope Norway isn't expecting sympathy from Jews, after one of their own recently gunned down some of their elite kids. For a country with only 800 active Jews, they they score pretty badly in their behavior.

You can't have it both ways. The gunman was also against government policies and in his twisted way he did something about it. How can people not become inflamed when they are continually subjected to propaganda telling them that the moslems are taking over Europe. When you sit in the USA it's ok to be smug because it's not in your back yard but when your grandmothers community has been driven away by immigrants and she is surrounded by foreigners in the home she has lived in all her life then it is cause for concern.
As I said before, I don't agree with what he did but somebody has to do something or submit to being over run.
Israel deals with its demographic problem by refusing to let the 1948 arabs return, it also has the option of throwing the troublemakers over the fence into Gaza. Europe has a similar problem and so we watch Israel very closely.

[softy54534]

I hope Norway isn't expecting sympathy from Jews, after one of their own recently gunned down some of their elite kids. For a country with only 800 active Jews, they they score pretty badly in their behavior.

Please don't speak on behalf of Jews unless you are yourself Jewish.

I don't consider Norway to be a friend of Israel, but yes, I feel a lot of sympathy for those killed and injured and their loved ones. I don't judge people based on their nationality.

[Drugmachine]

Don't speak on behalf of Jews even if you are Jewish... There's such a thing as human tragedy, which transcends peoples and borders.

[Lillie_Steins]

;/o

[doctorzlo]

I don't think Norway needs sympathy from its "define Israel's position here". Party in charge will use this incidence for future elections and both domestic-international approach to Jewish communities. The more pieces come together the more sensitive this subject gets.

[Paul Bunyan]

http://www.israelforum.com/board/sho...l=1#post332775