Norway’s New Generation Quislings

NorwegianBecause it “gives support to old conspiracy theories about Jews controlling media,” the Oslo Newspaper, “Dagsavisen,” recently took down from its site pro-Palestinian activist Siri Lill Thowsen’s article: “Is There Jewish Dominance over International and Norwegian Media?”

Though the anti-Israel Lobby is howling in protest that the removal demonstrates Thowsen’s thesis, nothing could be further from the truth.

Afloat on North Sea oil, Norway is also awash in movements to rehabilitate its Nazi collaborationist past as well as align with Israel’s mortal enemies in the present.

Not too long ago, “Adresseavisen” published a satiric cartoon—”Antisemitism Is Advancing Disturbingly in Europe”—that depicted Palestinian president Abu Mazen kneeling before a skull-capped Israeli prime minister Netanyahu sitting at a desk with the sign: “The new Jerusalem is Being Built Here.” A construction zone was shown featuring the sign that hung over the entrance to Auschwitz: Arbeit Macht Frei (“Work Liberates”).

In 2011, after Anders Beivik, a right-wing Norwegian, killed 77 people in a terror attack designed to protest Muslim influence, conspiracy theories multiplied blaming Jews and Israel for his act. “Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift” (a new monthly) published an article propounding this thesis by Professor Ota Tunander.

In Norway in 2010, school authorities were caught ignoring Muslim students who boycott Holocaust education and hurl anti-Semitic taunts and harassed Jewish students in schools.

Despite Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang’s refusal to participate in the ceremony, King Harald of Norway and his Palace staff decided to award a royal service medal to Trond Ali Linstad, who created day care programs for Muslim children but is also an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish activist. Koranen.no, Linstad’s web site, warns his readers to “beware the Jews,” and the “influence they have in newspapers and other media, in many political organs”—allegedly used to expand territory. One Oslo anti-racism organization has called Linstad’s views “one of the worst collective attacks on Jews” in current-day Norway.

Previously, Norway’s royal family and government rehabilitated with a national celebration and museum in his honor Knut Hamsen, the Hitler groupie who in 1943 gave his Nobel Prize to Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels.

In Bergen, virulently anti-Israel “Soscialist left” (SV) party leader Audun Lysbakken and Norway’s premier Israel-hating propagandist, Kåre Willoch, were invited to speak at the seventieth anniversary memorial of deportation of Jews to Auschwitz.

Norwegian longshoremen boycott Israeli ships.

If Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s World War II more successful version of Benedict Arnold, were still around, he might also be heading for national rehabilitation if not royal honors.