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Scandinavia: The West’s Citadel of anti-Semitism
by Giulio Meotti
February 17, 2017 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9924/scandinavia-antisemitism
On January 12, the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten published an article about Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and his senior adviser: “The Jew Kushner reportedly pushed for David M. Friedman as the new ambassador to Israel”, Aftenposten wrote. The newspaper had later to apologize for calling Kushner “the Jew”.
A few weeks earlier, the city council of Trondheim, Norway’s third-largest city, passed a motion calling on its residents to boycott Israeli goods — a city aspiring to be “Israel-free”. Then it was the turn of another Norwegian city, Tromso, population 72,000, whose city council approved a similar motion. More than 40% of Norwegians are already boycotting Israeli products or are in favor of doing so, according to a poll.
What hell is happening in Scandinavia, whose countries, Norway and Sweden, are bastions of political correctness, champions of multiculturalism and, according to the Global Peace Index, the most “peaceful” countries in the world? “The most successful society the world has ever known”, however, as The Guardian labelled Sweden, has a dark side: Israel-slandering and anti-Semitism.
Sweden and Norway are manipulating public opinion in the way immortalized by George Orwell in his novel “1984” as the “Two Minutes Hate”. These countries have seen the creation of a public opinion according to which Israel is a merciless enemy of humanity that ought to be dismantled forthwith.
A year ago, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, an updated map of Israel’s friends and enemies. Only five countries are openly at war with the Jewish State: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea. Then there are the friendly countries, including many non-Muslim African countries that once had no diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. But the map also included a European country that for the first time moved into the “non-friends” camp: Sweden.
Sweden is bad; Norway is now even worse.
2000 Jews in Norway, most keep it secret. They visit Israel – family that made aliya – but this handful just can’t make the break.
You want to yell, ‘Give up that godforsaken Nordic hellhole!’ But you can’t, they’re like frightened little rabbits. Or butterflies you can’t net.
Ethnic Norwegians never got the Nazi kicked out of them. It’s way overdue.
France: Eight arrested as protesters and police clash in Rouen
Eight people were arrested as clashes between protesters and riot police took place at a rally against police-brutality in Rouen on Friday.
The protest was part of a series of anti-police brutality rallies being held across France, which were instigated by the alleged assault and sexual abuse with a police baton of a 22-year old black man, identified as ‘Theo.’ The abuse caused the victim serious injuries for which he was rushed to a hospital. He required surgery due to the severity of the injuries. One of the police officers has been charged with rape, while three others were charged with assault.
Protests also centre around the case of Adama Traore, a 24 year old black man, who died on July 19 in police custody following his arrest in Beaumont-sur-Oise. Local authorities claim that Traore died of heart attack however Traore’s family accuse police of beating him to death. Two autopsies have so far been performed and an investigation is ongoing.
Blair: ‘It’s Time to Rise’ Against Brexit
Germany: CETA is a victory for Germans, Canadians and Europeans – Trudeau
German Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked Canada for it’s patience in the negotiations on the CETA trade agreement, during a joint press conference with the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following their meeting in Berlin on Friday.
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “I am delighted to have the Canadian Prime Minister here today as our guest, his first visit to Germany. I would like to bid him a very warm welcome. He visited Strasbourg before he came here addressing the European Union and Parliament and let me say I was very pleased to see that, in my capacity as German Chancellor, I would thank you for doing this and I include your Trade Minister in this, you have come out very in favour of the adoption of CETA and without your staying power without your patience this would arguably not have come about. We are very pleased to see that happening and I think we share the opinion and the assessment that bilateral or world-wide trade agreements obviously bring an added value to both sides, it is mutually beneficial and this is an agreement of a new quality, because this is not only about tariffs, it is also about social conditions, about consumer protection and about many areas, it has set a standard for future agreements.”
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “The Federal Republic of Germany, already in 2014 and during the NATO summit meeting in Wales supported this decision and also signed of on this decision that in the next decade we want to achieve this two percent target of defence expenditure. This commitment has not changed, to this day and we intend to pursue this political course. The defence budget this year compared to last year was increased by a percent and that is an important step forward and obviously we have to absorb those additional funds. So I think Germany shows that it is ready its responsibility in this respect.”
SOT, Angela Merkel, German Chancellor (German): “Obviously I asked the Canadian Prime Minister about his visit to Washington was, we had an exchange and I, on my part particularly, underlined the very good quality of transatlantic relations, no matter who is elected to the position of President, no matter which party he comes from, good relations are in our vested interests. We have always built our relationship on shared values we have every interest in seeing that challenges that the world needs to meet these days are challenges that we can tackle together and I think that this makes us stronger all round. ”
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Marine Le Pen sur le traité de libre échange CETA
Canada’s growing illegal immigrant crisis being ignored
BREITBART – Image of Putin Snuggling a Pregnant Donald Trump Projected on New York Apple Store
An image of Russian president Vladimir Putin caressing a pregnant Donald Trump was projected onto a New York Apple store on Tuesday evening as part of Valentine’s Day stunt by the dating app Hater.
The image, projected onto the Apple store in Chelsea, was accompanied by the message “Love Through Hate.” The app, which matches people according to their mutual hatreds, claims that over 200,000 of their user base hate Donald Trump.
“There’s a lot of tension out there, regardless of which side you’re on, we’re just trying to make people laugh. Through humor, hate can turn into love,” Hater CEO Brendan Alper told Business Insider.
Two other separate projections also took place across New York, one on 14th Street and Eighth Avenue, and another in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/17/image-of-putin-snuggling-a-pregnant-donald-trump-projected-on-new-york-apple-store/
and then there’s this:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/allartiserotic/works/23485596-trump-putin?grid_pos=1&p=poster
click on picture for full size
Actually on further thought, I’m beginning to applaud this trend, as it provides wonderful material for analysis. Can you imagine, after several month’s accumulation of this stuff, the lecture or live chat Jordan Peterson could give us?
I assume you have already seen this Obama portrait:
http://alexgrey.com/obama.html
yech, poo
gotta wipe my screen-
Pruitt will run the EPA to the dismay of environmentalists
BBC Newsnight Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka accuses BBC of ‘fake news’-
Following Donald Trump’s press conference, his deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka accuses the BBC and Newsnight of being “fake news” in this heated extended interview with Evan Davis.
kayo – knockout!
BBC Newsnight – Tariq Ramadan: Islam’s quiet intellectual revolution –
Viewsnight is BBC Newsnight’s new place for ideas and opinion. Here, author and academic Tariq Ramadan there is an “intellectual revolution” 🙂 🙂 🙂 taking place within Islam.
PJW: Europe’s Sanctuary Cities On Fire
Here’s what urgently needs to be done to change policing in France (thelocal, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.thelocal.fr/20170217/heres-what-needs-to-be-done-about-the-french-police
“An expert on the French police spells out what changes need to take place in the light of the alleged rape of a young Frenchman that sparked yet more violent clashes around Paris’s poor suburbs…”
If you can stomach “this”… Quite some radical leftist propaganda load..
Turkey’s Yildirim to campaign for controversial reform in Germany (DW, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.dw.com/en/turkeys-yildirim-to-campaign-for-controversial-reform-in-germany/a-37608316
“Turkey’s prime minister is campaigning for controversial constitutional reforms in Germany. Thousands are expected to attend the event. Why are Turkish politicians so popular here?
A sea of red flags with a white crescent moon and a politician who inspires cheering crowds: Such events are familiar to many in Germany. Because in recent years, high-ranking Turkish politicians have taken to addressing Turkish citizens living in Germany…
That puts German politicians in a difficult spot. The Turkish prime minister will be speaking on German soil about reforms that all parties in the German parliament have roundly rejected. Not surprisingly, criticism from Berlin has been vehement. Cem Özdemir of the Green Party says Yildirim is “campaigning for a state at Erdogan’s mercy.” Left Party politician Sevim Dagdelen says Yildirim should be denied entry in order to prevent this “ad campaign for a Turkish dictatorship.”…
Political scientist Burak Copur explains the phenomenon, observing that many people are in search of a savior who can offer them support, stability, and the feeling that they have a home. “That’s something German politicians have been unable to offer these people.””
Turkey recalls imams from Germany for ‘exceeding authority’ (thelocal, Feb 17, 2017)
https://www.thelocal.de/20170217/turkey-recalls-imams-from-germany-for-exceeding-authority
“Turkey’s religious affairs agency said on Friday it had recalled six clerics from Germany for exceeding their authority, but lashed out at German police for raiding the homes of preachers suspected of spying for Ankara.
The Diyanet agency’s chief Mehmet Gormez vehemently denied there had been any wrongdoing by the clerics, saying his organisation was the target of a defamation campaign…”
Raid on imams stems from political competition in Germany: Top religious official (hurriyetdailynews, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/raid-on-imams-stems-from-political-competition-in-germany-top-religious-official-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=109881&NewsCatID=393
“Accusations of espionage against Turkish imams in Germany stemmed from a “defamation campaign” that was tied to the political climate ahead of elections in the country, Turkey’s top religious official has said.
“It is unacceptable for Islamophobic hate to become an [issue] in the election atmosphere,” Mehmet Görmez, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), told a group of journalists on Feb. 17.
Görmez slammed Germany for the raid on the houses of four religious officials working under the Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (D?T?B) in the areas of Bad Godesberg, Fürthen-Sieg, Engelskirchen and Bergneustadt…”
‘Immigrants must celebrate Christmas to be Danish’: DPP (thelocal, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.thelocal.dk/20170217/immigrants-must-celebrate-christmas-to-be-danish-dpp
“The anti-immigration Danish People’s Party is demanding that immigrants celebrate Christian festivals such as Christmas and Easter if they want to call themselves ‘Danish’.
“Going to church,” the party’s immigration spokesman Martin Henriksen added, would at least put new arrivals “on the right track”.
The call came after a week when Denmark’s parliament revisited the vexed question of what it means to be a Dane.
Henriksen said he believed that celebrating Christian festivals would help new arrivals to Denmark understand the majority culture in the country…”
Over 100 militants killed in nationwide security crackdown following Sehwan blast (tribune, Feb 17, 2017)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1329717/rangers-kill-18-terrorists-karachi-sehwan-blast/
“Security forces launched on Friday a nationwide crackdown on after a bomb ripped through Lal Shahbaz Qalandar’s shrine, killing over 100 militants across the country.
“Over 100 terrorists killed besides sizeable arrests during the last 24 hours,” the Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement…”
Pakistan asks Afghanistan to hand over 76 terrorists immediately (tribune, Feb 17, 2017)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1329655/pakistan-asks-afghanistan-handover-76-terrorists-immediately/
“Pakistan Army on Friday asked Kabul to hand over 76 terrorists hiding in Afghanistan, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
The head of the military’s media wing DG ISPR Major-General Asif Ghafoor said Afghan Embassy officials were called to General Headquarters. “Given list of 76 terrorists hiding in Afghanistan. Asked to take immediate action/be handed over to Pakistan,” he said…”
‘When, not if’ Islamic State WILL inspire an atrocity in BRITAIN, police chief warns (express, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/768894/Islamic-State-ISIS-terror-London-Sir-Bernard-Hogan-Howe-Muslim-scholars-Islam
“MUSLIM scholars should do more to tackle the violent ideology of extremist groups such as the Islamic State, according to London’s outgoing police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner said ISIS is still targeting young recruits by using Islam to justify its actions and urged Muslim scholars to step in to challenge this “false narrative”.
He said: “The hardest part for the Western world is to interrupt this philosophy that ISIS is perpetuating, which is that Islam in any way supports this horrific use of violence.
“There is no interpretation I would argue that could say that, but some people are getting away with that…”
circling and circling, like a dog to its vomit
FRANCE VIOLENCE: Shocking footage as teens attack lady intervening in mass brawl (express, Feb 17, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/768896/paris-riots-latest-fighting-metro-eurostar-french-train-station-fight
“SHOCKING footage has emerged of teens involved in a violent brawl at a French train station after Marine Le Pen said she was “staggered” with the government inaction after destructive riots hit the capital…”