Norway: Purveyor of Anti-Semitism

Many of us in Minnesota trace our roots to Norway.  I know I do.  So what is happening in the land of our grandfathers?  Well for one thing they are rich on North Sea oil.  This is supporting quite a lavish lifestyle for most Norwegians and has supported their socialist society with little or no national debt.

I won't bother to look up the exact figures but suffice it to say that Norway has turned into a VERY secular society.  Very few would claim to be born again Christians.  Church attendance is very low.

So this next headline really shouldn't surprise us...it may sadden us, but it shouldn't surprise us.

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 as no surprise. Besides being a substantial producer of oil and gas, the country is also a major purveyor of Israel hatred and anti-Semitism.

Several ministers of the Labor and Socialist Left governing parties have endorsed hate-inciting acts. The state TV and radio company NRK has an anti-Israel bias officially approved by the Broadcasting Council. There is a dominant anti-Israel attitude in the media and significant anti- Israelism in academia. Trade unions make periodic boycott calls. Some Lutheran bishops are major inciters. There is substantial anti- Semitism in schools.

In 2008, comedian Otto Jespersen urged his nationwide TV audience to remember “all the billions of fleas and lice that lost their lives in the German gas chambers, without having done anything wrong other than settling on persons of Jewish background.” There are also a number of true friends mainly among opposition politicians and parties, as well as pro-Zionist Christians.

This rare foreign criticism of Norway was followed by an interview in “The Jerusalem Post” with American author Bruce Bawer, who argued that Norway’s cultural elite has replaced its affinity “to the Soviet Union with sympathy for the great totalitarian ideology of our time: Islamism. Thus they romanticize Palestinians and despise Israel.”

He recommended that Norwegian Jews leave for Israel.

See it here; http://www.jpost.com/JerusalemReport/TheRegion/Article.aspx?id=221553

So it appears that Norway will most likely be one other country that will vote for the Palestinians to have their own state...and vote for Jerusalem to be divided to make room for their capital there.

I have to quote Zechariah again, "...I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations.  All who try to move it will injure themselves."

Hat tip to Julie E.