Posts Tagged ‘Jewish life in Norway’
Via Ha’aretz:
“Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in Scandinavia,” Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, a scholar of Western European anti-Semitism, told a discussion on Scandinavian anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred hosted on Tuesday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Gerstenfeld presented cartoons from the Norwegian mainstream press and noted, “There is something wrong with a society which is willing to accept these Nazi cartoons. With a Jewish population of only 1,300, Norway has led the pack in anti-Semitism before, during and after WWII.” Zvi Mazel, a former ambassador to Sweden, spoke of a “deep-rooted” anti-Semitism in Sweden, while Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Wiesenthal Center in Israel – which co-sponsored the event – addressed Norway and Sweden’s failure to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
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