The Sad Song Of Norway: Its Antisemitic Refrain

Oslo, 2006.В  Miriam Shomrat, Israel’s Amba*sador to Norway, was incensed.В  And with good reason. In September that year, a month after Oslo’s Jewish cemetery was vandalised, and just before Rosh Hashanah, three individuals in a pa*sing car (later identified as two Islamists and an accomplice called Kristiansen), fired a volley of 13 shots at the synagogue.В  The building’s facade was damaged, although luckily no one was hurt.В В  The attack came shortly after the government of Jens Stoltenberg (who of course has been very much in the public eye this past week, and has visited a mosque to show his solidarity with his country’s Muslims) ruled that security cameras monitoring the approaches to the synagogue in Oslo must be removed. ) were discovered: «We don’t know who’s doing this, whether it’s Norwegians or foreigners.В  But the fact that there’s been an increase [in attacks] and that it’s happening in Oslo must be taken very seriously by the political community.»

Diplomatic or not, in a television interview she made some pointed remarks about the fact that not a single message of sympathy hadВ  been forthcoming from the country’s Royal Family, and blamed a former prime minister, KГ