"Norway Is The Most Anti-Semitic Country In The West." - Hanne Nabintu Herland
In 2002, Eva Kristen Hansen, leader of Norwegian Labour Party Youth Movement (AUF), called upon the Attorney General of Norway to investigate if Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could be indicted for crimes against humanity.
“I acknowledge that this is a drastic measure, but I think it gives a clear indication that we are tired of Israel’s behaviour, quite simply.” - Eskil Pedersen,Utøya Island, 20 July 2011
The AUF Labour Party Youth Movement have been devoted promoters of the Israel Boycott campaign. Two days before the Utoya Island massacre, AUF's Eskil Pedersen, gave an interview to the Dagbladet, Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper in which he unveiled what he thought of Israel The newspaper reported that he said that "The AUF has long been a supporter of an international boycott of Israel, but the decision at the last congress, demands that Norway imposes a unilateral economic embargo on the country and it must be stricter than before." When the evil madman, Anders Behring Breivik, started shooting two days later, Pedersen, AUF's first openly gay leader - who would be welcomed in Israel and executed in the Muslim world - was one of the first, and few, teenagers evacuated from Utoya Island by boat to the mainland. I am delighted that Mr Pedersen escaped the massacre. I only wish that the others had been as fortunate.
In 2010, Egil Drillo Olsen, coach of Norwegian football team wrote in daily Aftenposten that “the call to boycott Israel was in line with what 90% of the world’s population believes. There cannot be many other opinions.”
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Egil Drillo Olsen, right, coach of Norwegian football team
According to Alan Dershowitz, "in a recent interview, Norway’s Ambassador to Israel has suggested that Hamas terrorism against Israel is more justified than the recent terrorist attack against Norway. His reasoning is that, 'We Norwegians consider the occupation to be the cause of the terror against Israel.' In other words terrorism against Israeli citizens is the fault of Israel. The terrorism against Norway, on the other hand, was based on 'an ideology that said that Norway, particularly the Labour Party, is foregoing Norwegian culture.' It is hard to imagine that he would make such a provocative statement without express approval from the Norwegian government.
I can’t remember many other examples of so much nonsense compressed in such short an interview. First of all, terrorism against Israel began well before there was any 'occupation.' The first major terrorist attack against Jews who had long lived in Jerusalem and Hebron began in 1929, when the leader of the Palestinian people, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, ordered a religiously-motivated terrorist attack that killed hundreds of religious Jews—many old, some quite young. Terrorism against Jews continued through the 1930s. Once Israel was established as a state, but well before it captured the West Bank, terrorism became the primary means of attacking Israel across the Jordanian, Egyptian and Lebanese borders. If the occupation is the cause of the terror against Israel, what was the cause of all the terror that preceded any occupation?"
Earlier this year, three Norwegian universities refused Dershowitz’s offer of a free lecture on Israel and international law. Dershowitz thereupon compared his Norwegian experience with a visit to South Africa under apartheid in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Jews are not welcome in Norway."
"The University of Oslo simply said 'no' without offering an excuse. That led one journalist to wonder whether the Norwegian universities believe that I am 'not entirely house-trained.' Only once before have I been prevented from lecturing at universities in a country. The other country was Apartheid South Africa." - Alan Dershowitz
In "Norway Is The Most Anti-Semitic Country In The West," an article written by Hanne Nabintu Herland, who is a Norwegian academic, historian of religions and bestselling author, she wrote that the "President of Israel, Mr Shimon Peres’ critical comments on Norway's reluctancy to follow European Union, United Nations, and the United States in denouncing Hamas as a terrorist movement, [were] timely remarks. If one adds Harvard professor Alan M. Dershowitz article in the Wall Street Journal, it all makes me ashamed to be Norwegian. Under the title Mr Dershowitz told of his encounters with anti-Semitic Norwegian academics, who had made it clear that he was unwanted as a guest lecturer at Norwegian universities. This is how Norwegian intellectuals treat one the West’s most famous defence lawyers and an internationally renowned Harvard University professor.” |
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