Norwegian criticism of Israeli politics can escalate into anti-Semitism.
The UN ad hoc organization OSCE, charged with trying to head off and resolve conflicts in Europe, has criticized Norwegian officials for failing to address alleged intolerance towards Muslims and Jews in Norway.
News of the criticism came just as Norway planned to file a formal protest against Israel for arresting four Norwegians as they tried to help break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The four Norwegians, including two members of the Norwegian Parliament from the Labour Party and the Socialist Left party (SV), were on board the vessel Estelle that was boarded by Israeli troops over the weekend in what the Norwegians claim were international waters. The ship was part of another attempt to bring international aid to Gaza and challenge the Israeli blockade of desputed territory.
That sort of participation in Middle East politics can be linked to the concerns of officials of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) who visited Norway last summer.
Newspaper Aftenposten reported over the weekend that they worry that Norwegian criticism of Israeli politics, can escalate into anti-Semitism.
The OSCE delegation called Norway “an exemplary state” when it comes to promoting human rights and equality, but pointed to what they see as worrying signs of anti-Semitism already, along with discrimination of Muslims as well.
The three members of the delegation (a retired Irish judge, a rabbi who heads the American Jewish Committee and an ambassador from Kazakhstan) were particularly concerned about Norwegians’ opinions on the conflict in the Middle East, which Norwegians’ own politicians have actively tried to mediate for decades.
Disturbed by survey results
The OSCE delegation was most concerned with results of a recent survey by Norway’s Holocaust Center suggesting that 38 percent of Norwegians equated Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with how the Nazis treated Jews before World War II. Norway’s foreign minister, they said, should promote “a civilized discussion” on the Middle East conflict, and actively oppose those who “demonize” Israel.
Israel’s new ambassador to Norway Naim Araidi, who is not Jewish himself, called the survey results “frightening” and said it reflected a disturbing lack of knowledge about the Holocaust, the Nazis and the current situation in the Middle East.
The OSCE delegation also criticized Norwegian officials for failing to take racist violence and hate crimes seriously enough, for failing to overturn alleged prohibitions against halal and kosher slaughtering of animals to accommodate Muslim and Jewish religious principles and for discriminating against Muslims in the workplace.
Source: News in English
My comment:
Norway sent half of its Jewish population to the gas chambers in Germany, in November 1942.
Today, the Government of Norway support the formation of a Jew-free zone on the mountains of Zion. Norway is equally preoccupied with the establishment of a “Judenrein” zone as Hitler was.
It is a deep spiritual tragedy for Norway, that their own government are ran by anti-Semites. Norway supply Islamic terrorists with 50 million USD on a yearly basis. By and large the PLO. But also Hamas through programs ran by the United Nations.
Hamas has promised its members to destroy the state of Israel.
Since Jesus was a Jew, Norway could have committed the crimes of sending the young Messiah and his family to the gas chambers in Auswish. Today, Norway wants to ban a Jew like Jesus to live in the mountains south and north of Jerusalem. On these hills, only Muslims and Arabs are permitted to live.
This is a damnable and pit full shame.
The leadership in Norway, are calling down curses on the head of Norwegians. Even with claimed to be Christian leaders “blessings”.
Written by Ivar
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