Can the Koran be compared to ‘Mein Kampf’? Last week the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled that the attorney-general should bring a case against Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. This leader of the right-wing Freedom Party has made a number of … [Read More]
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Comment: How Israel should face hostile Norway gov’t In recent years, there have been frequent harsh verbal attacks on Israel initiated by the Norwegian government. The same is true for large segments of Norway’s cultural elite, including many media outlets, … [Read More]
Norway: Purveyor of Anti-Semitism THAT THE OFFER OF FREE LECTURES ON THE MIDDLE East conflict by Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the most eloquent advocates of the Israeli case, was refused by three universities in Norway should come … [Read More]
The speech Obama did not make As a couple of weeks have now passed since President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, it is possible to get a better perspective on many of its aspects. Focus must not only be placed … [Read More]
Muslim anti-Semitism in Western Europe Detailed data on Muslim anti-Semitism in Western Europe is very limited. The few existing studies all point in one direction. In 2011 Mark Elchardus, a Belgian sociologist, published a report on Dutch-language elementary schools in … [Read More]
Is Norway funding the murderers of Israelis? There have been greatly surprising developments in Norway in the past weeks. Conservative parliamentarian Peter Gitmark has said on television that his country is indirectly funding Palestinian terrorists. The country’s three largest opposition … [Read More]
What’s hiding behind attacks on circumcision? Defending Judaism against attacks on Jewish rituals is gradually becoming a ritual in itself. A recent recommendation by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to prohibit circumcision has put Israel and … [Read More]
Dutch press tries to hide anti-Semitic incident ‘I am satisfied with what Hitler did with the Jews” and “Hitler should have killed all Jews.” These, plus killing all Jewish babies, were the essence of remarks made by four Dutch-Turkish youths … [Read More]
Kristallnacht as a political instrument This year, as has often occurred in the past, some Kristallnacht memorial meetings in Europe were abused as political instruments rather than serving to memorialize Jewish victims. Memorial-day manipulation in Germany goes back many years. … [Read More]
Norway: Anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism will continue after elections In recent years Norway’s government has incited against Israel probably more than any other Western European government. Last week’s defeat in the parliamentary elections of the three-party coalition of Labor Prime Minister … [Read More]