Norway: A Tolerant, Inclusive, Diverse, Multicultural Society For Everyone...Except Jews...Part IV

Sadly, anti-Semitism is rife throughout Norwegian society.  Jostein Gaarder is a bestselling author of children’s books and outspoken critic of Israel.  In 2007, he said, "Israel is history. We do not recognise the state of Israel. There is no way back. The state of Israel has raped the recognition of the world and does not get peace before it lays down its weapons. The state of Israel in its present form is history.”  

Then, he really got onto the meat, potatoes and anti-Semitism, “We laugh at this people's whims, and cry over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only foolish and arrogant; it is a crime against humanity. We call it racism.... There are limits to our patience and there are limits to our tolerance. We do not believe in divine promises as a rationale for occupation and apartheid. We have left the Middle Ages behind. We laugh with embarrassment at those who still believe that the god of the flora, fauna and galaxies has chosen one particular people as his favourite, and given them amusing stone tablets, burning bushes and a licence to kill.” 

As an aside, perhaps, Mr Gaarder is correct.  Some of us have left the Middle Ages, but others have not left it behind.  In the case of Islamists, they have just revved up the Delorean and traveled back to the 7^th century in some cases…such as in Afghanistan or how Shari’ah treats women, children, and homosexuals.  Of course, Mr Gaarder may claim to have left the Middle Ages, but, unfortunately, he has the same anti-Jew mindset that permeated Europe then and through the genocide of World War II.

Author to Mr Gaarder:  “It’s the 21^st century!  We promise that we will neither suck your blood nor use the blood of your children to make Purim cookies.  Our hand is outstretched.  Leave behind the Middle Ages.  Step into the light.  Leave the bigotry and hatred behind in the Dark Ages.”

Taxi drivers in Oslo will not drive Jews to synagogue. 

While critics like Mona Levin, a cultural journalist, who was one of the most high-profile critics of Gaarder's article, said "This is the worst piece I have read since Mein Kampf.... He proceeds from talking about Israel in one paragraph to attacking the Jewish people in the next paragraph” and Shimon Samuels of the Wiesenthal Centre in Paris wrote in a reaction in Aftenposten that Breivik "exposed his shallow Biblical knowledge and the Judeophobic paranoia that haunts his nightmares.... Obsessed with the Jews as ‘God's Chosen People,' Gaarder regurgitates this concept's classic anti-Semitic definition as ‘arrogant and domineering.” 

Dr Mads Gilbert, a Marxist and member of the Red (Rodt) Party, who endorses the "moral right" of the 9/11 terrorists to kill Americans is among the prominent anti-Israel extremists in Norway

Dr Mads Gilbert is a radical Marxist and a member of the political Red (Rodt) party, a revolutionary socialist party in Norway. He has been a pro-Palestinian activist since the 1970's and travelled to Lebanon in support of the Palestinians during the first Lebanon war in 1982. He has long been a vocal opponent of Israel and the United Staes. Gilbert has acknowledged that he cannot separate politics from medicine, stating, "there is little in medicine that is not politics." He even criticises the group Doctors Without Borders for providing medical assistance to both sides in a conflict instead of taking a strong stance and supporting only one party. When asked by Dagbladet if he supported the terrorist attack on the U.S., he replied:  “Terror is a bad weapon, but the answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.”  (30 September 2001)

Gilbert has claimed that Israel is engaged in "all out war against civilians” and has condemned Israel for "deliberately targeting the [Palestinian] population" and causing "a man-made disaster." Gilbert and his partner, Erik Fosse, claim that Israel and the United Nations lie about the civilian casualty counts and feed the media their own alternate statistics ("50% of the casualties are women and children"–CBS; "children made up 25% of the deaths and 45% of the wounded"–BBC).

Their anti-Semitism is well-documented and they should be shunned, but their opinions are not why they make an appearance in this piece.  What makes this vile rubbish relevant is that the Norwegian Foreign Ministry of Jonas Gahn-Støre funds their “humanitarian” trips.  Goebbels would be so proud. 

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