Son of Israeli living in Norway branded by anti-Semitic classmate
We all knew that
the Norwegians are anti-Semites. They just proved it again. A Norwegian high school student whose father is an Israeli was branded by an anti-Semitic classmate at a year-end barbecue on Monday. And no one in Norway is likely to do a darned thing about it.
MIFF has gained access to a private cell phone image showing the result of the attack which took place at a school barbecue for the senior class, this Monday (June 11, 2012). The 16-year-old boy was enjoying his grilled chicken when a red-hot coin was placed on his neck by a fellow student, an ethnic Norwegian. The coin made a very visible burns on the boys neck.
- It was one of the regular anti-Semites [in the son's class] who heated the coin on the grill and pressed it onto the neck of my son. The red hot coin burned through to the flesh, the mother told miff.no on Monday night. On Tuesday afternoon she explains that a teacher observed the incident and told the culprit “you’re mad.” Yet no representative from the school made contact with the mother afterwards.
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This fits into a pattern from the school, the mother said. Already in March 2010 she told NRK how school staff failed to intervene, but applied a policy of avoidance.
- I see this avoidance as a dangerous development among both ethnic Norwegian and immigrant groups. And that nobody, neither teachers or principals, intervene in this matter. There is a refusal to address these issues, it is too sensitive, she told the NRK at the time.
The interview from 2010, on Norwegian national news where the mothers identity was kept anonymous, is still available at nrk.no.
His mother told about “clear anti-Semitic harassment, expressed verbally and physically.”
- They say they are going to kill all the Jews, and use offensive language such as “Jewish pigs” and “Jewish satan” she added.
Read the whole thing. Perhaps the best response to the
Breivik massacre last summer is 'a curse on both their houses.'
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Norwegian anti-Semitism, Norwegian Jews, Norwegian obsession with Israel
Norwegian Jews worry they will be blamed for Breivik
Norwegian Jews are expressing concern over the possibility that
they could be blamed for last Friday's rampage by xenophobe Anders Behring Breivik.
Yet even as they mourn along with their fellow countrymen, some Jews here are quietly expressing concern that the attack by a right-wing xenophobe who apparently sympathized with Israel may further mute pro-Israel voices in Norway, where anti-Zionist sentiment already runs strong.
In the rambling 1,500-page manifesto attributed to the alleged perpetrator of the attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, anti-Muslim diatribes are punctuated at times with expressions of admiration for Israel and its fight against Islamic terrorism.
And on Utoya island, the young Labor Party activists who were holding a retreat when Breivik ambushed them, had spent part of the day before discussing the organization of a boycott against Israel and pressing the country’s foreign minister, who was visiting the camp, to recognize a Palestinian state.
If the Norwegian public is looking for a larger villain than Breivik, Jews here are worried that Zionism and pro-Israel organizations may be singled out.
“Can the average Norwegian accept that this is the one random act of one confused ethnic Norwegian?” Ring asked. “What I’m worried about is that in the Norwegian mind it will slowly attach an antagonism to Israel.”
Joakim Plavnik, a young Norwegian Jew who works in the financial sector, said he’s already worried by news reports that have focused on the seemingly pro-Zionist parts of Breivik’s writings.
“That can potentially have very negative ramifications toward the small, vulnerable Jewish community,” Plavnik said. But, he added, “We can’t be paralyzed by that fear.”
Rachel Suissa runs the Center Against Antisemitism, a pro-Israel group that counts about 23,000 supporters and 10,000 subscribers to a quarterly journal. She said the Norwegian government’s general pro-Palestinian stance – Norway’s foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Store, recently said that Oslo soon would announce its support for an independent Palestinian state – makes Zionism difficult to promote here.
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Suissa said she is concerned that Breivik’s attack will make it more difficult for Israel supporters and the right-wing Christian groups she works with to express their views. But Rabbi Joav Melchior, spiritual leader of the community synagogue also known as DMT, dismissed such concerns.
“That someone … calls himself pro-Israel shouldn’t in principle change anything for us,” he said of Breivik. “We don’t feel that he’s a part of our group.”
Read the whole thing. Given what we
already knew of Norway's feelings toward Jews before this happened, I would be deeply concerned if I lived there.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Norwegian anti-Semitism, Norwegian Jews, Oslo bombing, Utoya massacre
We all knew that the Norwegians are anti-Semites. They just proved it again. A Norwegian high school student whose father is an Israeli was branded by an anti-Semitic classmate at a year-end barbecue on Monday. And no one in Norway is likely to do a darned thing about it. 
