"They believe we are being eaten in the streets here", said Ervin Kohn, president of The Mosaic Religious Community in Oslo.
Rumors are circulating that Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in the West. This is spreading so much in Jewish communities in the United States that the Mosaic Religious Community has invited leaders of major Jewish organizations in the U.S. to a seminar in Oslo next week.
"We want to take the bull by the horns. We live in a world of myth, "says Kohn.
The program includes politicians, editors, commentators and voices from the Norwegian religious landscape. There are two myths the seminar will deal with. One is that anti-Semitism does not exist in Norway. The second, prevalent in the US, is that Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in the West.
"Both I think are completely wrong. We may be located somewhere in the middle", said Kohn.
The aim is to allow leaders from the United States to see Norway for themselves, meet the locals, and ask questions. The Mosaic Religious Community has also received contracts for separate meetings with Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store (Labor) and Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen.
Hannah Nabintu Herland recently wrote the op-ed "Norway - the West's most anti-Semitic country," which was printed in seven Norwegian newspapers. The article is just one of many reasons that American leaders are responding.
"These people are getting their information from Norwegian newspapers. Class Struggle, Our Country and Aftenposten are all translated. In the American way of looking at these issues, there have been some things said in Norway that wouldn't have been voiced in America, and that is what the American Jews are reacting to.
According to Kohn, the Norwegian Embassy in Washington received a letter urging a boycott of Norwegian smoked salmon and Voss water.
"Jewish communities in the United States have an image of Norway as a pretty terrible country, "said Kohn.
The seminar includes sections dealing with media coverage, Norwegian Middle East policy, education, interreligious dialogue and minority issues.
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Hanne Nabintu Herland, Religion historian and author
I met Dershowitz in March under the Oslo Symposium 2011. His description of the obvious anti-semitism and the lack of willingness to be objective that characterizes Norwegian academics, is shocking. During his opening address, 24 March I pointed out that the oversimplified political handling of the Israel is not only shameless, but historieløs. For we have a lot more civilization in terms jointly with the Jewish people than you'd think in these times of anti-Semitic. Western values ??has its cradle in the Greek and Roman contributions, but also, and especially in value terms, in the Hebrew Christian contribution that came with the humane view of human nature, recognizing the value of every human being regardless of rank and class or ethnic affiliation.
Today, Norwegian historieforvrengere reached far beyond the Palestinian question and instead to support the only real democracy in the Middle East, hoes we Israelis who though we still found ourselves in 1939 when the socialist Hitler "Zieg heil" came over the land. For the Nazis were left wing and came out of Germany's Socialist Labour Party, it was not right-wing. The individuals in the Norwegian power positions that have pushed forward unilaterally negative attitudes, are responsible for creating a politically-correct hatred against Israel that has made Norway the West's most anti-Semitic country.
VG's recent survey on whether NRK covering the Middle East conflict in an objective manner, showed that 60% of the Norwegian population believes Israel is right that coverage is biased. The survey came in the wake of the Israeli embassy in Oslo had filed a complaint with the Broadcasting Council. For when the shades disappear, we are slowly sliding into totalitarian coercion. Today some Jews dared hardly walk on the street in Oslo without fear of being spat on. Not by Muslims, but of ethnic Norwegian who think they do the truth a service to bully its neighbor.
Injustice is that they have decided not to increase knowledge about international relations, but only reflect the politically-correct left's diktat. During Soviet times this was called propaganda. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre frequent articles in international newspapers in defense of Hamas, this reflects the naivety that eventually becomes so great that one should promote the suspicion of deliberate malice. There is good reason to understand why parts of the Labour Party in accordance with the class struggle would rather Gahr Store of Health. Then you could at least have stopped the harm this man doing when he rubs Norway's international reputation. For the self-styled Hamas activist, Gahr Store ridicule their own country.
Because of the lack of political will to see nuances, denied the Norwegians objective information that could contribute to public education. This also happened in 1979 when the Marxists and other supporters of the naive dreams of the effects of armed revolution, hailed Khomeini. The Shah of Persia was overthrown and many tears of joy because the people had their revolution. Today the cry for quite different reasons.
The serious ensrettetheten was also reflected in media coverage of unrest in Egypt. President Mubarak received in the last election over 80% of the vote. In his reign Egypt became one of the Middle East's most economically expansive, secular and stable country. National income per capita increased by 40% from 2004 to today. It quickly forgotten when the Norwegian newspapers suddenly see fit to unilaterally support the young, angry Muslims' fury at Tahrir Square. The conservative 1800-century philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed that only when the so-called dictators over time has made conditions better for their people, comes a revolution that often makes things worse again.
The lack of will to promote and highlight various aspects of the Israel question, as well as a number of other international relations, is thus one of the reasons why many are now standing together on a new course in Norwegian politics. We want an end to unilateral public.
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