Stolpersteine commemorating Norwegian Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, in Schønings gate in Oslo. The stones show clear signs of vandalism, in that a number of scratches have been inflicted across the names. Photo: Jan-Tore Egge / Wikimedia Commons (cc by-sa 4.0).
Last November we took part in a Stolpersteine walk in a small Norwegian town in memory of Norwegian Holocaust victims. The police found it necessary to keep watch – a thought-provoking experience, and with yet another Holocaust Day marked on 27 January with the appropriate words from the appropriate dignitaries, the questions arise:
Does, for example, NRK, as our most weighty media actor, possess any form of influence? If so – might it be conceivable that NRK, through its selection and presentation of material from the Middle East, has something to do with the fact that we have become one of the most anti-Jewish countries in Europe? (Cf. Haaretz 01.11.24 and Aftenposten 26.11.24 and 27.01.26, H. Stanghelle.) After months of registration and systematisation, my question is: How reliable is NRK? What responsibility does NRK bear for the growing hatred of Jews in Norway? After the first impression of a terrible Israel, one often notices factors that jar. A pattern emerges.
An earlier memorandum from me received its own case number in the Kringkastingsrådet (Broadcasting Council) 180424. Falkenberg Mikkelsen there chose to explain the working methods of NRK in general without substantive consideration of the approximately 30 points. Without dwelling on that, two points which early showed the trend should nevertheless be mentioned:
16.11.23 Dagsrevyen: The prize-winning Wolasmal made a scoop: in an interview with Hamas leader Osama Hamdan, the latter is pressed into admitting that the aim is to eliminate Israel. Then the incredible occurs: Wolasmal trivialises the statement in the subsequent segment: it was directed internally, and Hamdan did not really mean what he said!
01.01.24 Dagsrevyen: Homeless people in Gaza by a warming fire are cleverly linked with a rocket attack. The impression is created, but if you check, you see that the attack is against an Israeli town from Gaza.
So to the most recent registration:
Famine
09.04.25 Nyhetsmorgen: Lindis Hurum, “Doctors Without Borders” (Leger uten grenser), presents the latest version of her many attacks on Israel. The new punchline this time: “Not so much as a Paracetamol has entered Gaza for 5 weeks.” A cracking sentence, Hurum no doubt thinks, for she used it many times afterwards in the media. But:
02.04.25 Dagsrevyen: Only one week earlier NRK broadcast a report about the dreadful conditions in Gaza, where in the background one inadvertently sees two young men strolling down the street with an ice cream each in their hands. Not a Paracetamol in?
Screenshot from Dagsrevyen
02.05.25 Dagsrevyen / 03.05.25 nrk.no: An emaciated 5-year-old, Osama al-Raqab, with protruding cheekbones, gives you clear associations. You have seen it before: 1945, Auschwitz. Save the Children (Redd Barna) states: a death prison! But the mother appears healthy, does she not? The child was already ill, something NRK knows. Nevertheless, NRK uses the film clip to underpin the claim of famine in Gaza. (He was later evacuated to Italy for treatment.)
21.05.25 Dagsrevyen: People try to obtain food, but the people in the background show no interest in the sought-after commodity. Barth Eide is allowed without objection to claim: “Now it is a matter of hours.” Hallvard Sandberg states in the same broadcast: “There is food in Gaza. … There is an active black market where much can be bought dearly. Very dearly.” Could Israel’s claim be correct: that Hamas steals aid supplies and sells them dearly on the black market to secure income?
02.05.25 Press release, Wafa, the PA’s news agency: President Abbas confirms Israel’s version that Hamas steals food supplies for its own gain. Did NRK mention this?
Have you noticed that many of the videos of food queues have an angle such that we only see those at the front of the queue, or, as mentioned above, people in the background are not interested?
03.08.25 The reputable Süddeutsche Zeitung (together with Bild) revealed the reason: the frequently used Gaza photographer Anas Z. Fteiha had staged images and arranged people in a false pseudo-food queue. He works for the Turkish agency Anadolu, directly subordinate to Erdogan. Turkey is a supporter of Hamas. Heard anything from NRK about this?
A German investigation released Wednesday reveals that powerful images of hungry Palestinian children with empty pots, widely used to condemn Israel for Gaza’s starvation, may have been staged as part of Hamas propaganda. Photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, linked to Turkish state… pic.twitter.com/EBRuZdrT6D
— Marc Zell (@GOPIsrael) August 6, 2025
Killing in a food queue
01.06.25 Søndagsrevyen: NRK claimed for the first time that people in a food queue in Gaza were shot by Israeli soldiers. The British Sky News was honest enough to broadcast footage the same day showing that it was not IDF that fired at all, but people of an entirely different kind …
In the time afterwards NRK repeatedly stated that IDF shot at people in the food queues at the newly established centres. Note! Not a single recording has been shown of IDF shooting directly at civilians in food queues. There is otherwise an abundance of videos from the enclave. The litmus test is: who had every interest in causing this system to collapse? But NRK conveys the Hamas version without reservation.
18.06.25 Dagsrevyen: Newsreader I. Stenvold: “… when Israeli soldiers today once again fired at people standing in a food queue.” “Yesterday nearly 60 persons were killed in shooting at a food queue in Khan Younis.”
Screenshot from Dagsrevyen
NRK establishes this as indisputable fact. Such things inflame an already frighteningly anti-Jewish opinion.
21.06.25 Al Hayat al Jadida (official PA press organ): The editor launches a sensational attack on Hamas. He condemns them for shooting at people attempting to fetch food from the Israeli-American centres: “This is the abhorrent reality, and this is Hamas, … – nothing more than hunters hunting those searching for a loaf of bread .!” NRK is silent.
Stab upon stab
11.05.25 Dagsrevyen: Al-Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who died in an Israeli drone strike because Israel believed he was a Hamas man, receives extensive coverage. A letter from him was shown which was to be read out if he were killed. In it he wrote that he had endured hunger for months, slept on pavements etc. in order to serve his people. It was excellent PR work by Hamas to have this publicised without critical scrutiny. The film clips show a healthy young man driving around in a car with other young men and eating food sent by his mother. This occurs in a Gaza where NRK and all aid organisations report that everything is lacking. Who has cars, food and fuel there?
18./19.09.25 NTB / TT / TV2: Representatives of Thunberg’s convoy and the organisation behind it, Global Sumud Flotilla, were in many meetings with Hamas, PFLP and Islamic Jihad as recently as this summer. Did NRK report this?
23.09.25 Dagsrevyen: A committee under the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) asked FIFA/UEFA to exclude Israel from international football. J. P. Saltvedt, NRK, characterised UNHRC as “the most recognised worldwide” when it comes to human rights. This “recognised” UN body has adopted more resolutions against Israel than against Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela combined. The member states in Sept. -25 included Algeria, Bangladesh, China, Cuba, DR Congo, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, South Africa, Sudan and other shining human-rights beacons (+ a few good democracies).
08.10.25 Dagsrevyen: The programme hosts inform: “At the same time the attacks against Gaza City continue.” “Meanwhile the bombs continue to strike the Palestinians in Gaza.” Wolasmal speaks of the Israeli rain of bombs. None of them mention why: the day before, on the 2-year anniversary of Hamas’s violent attack on Israel, Hamas found it opportune to send new rockets into Israel – again on Yom Kippur, the Jews’ holiest day. International media, e.g. the British The Telegraph, reported this, but NRK is not interested.
23.12.25 Dagsrevyen: Newsreader Ida Creed states that winter has arrived in Gaza and that several small children are said to have died from the cold. Lindis Hurum is again on the move and speaks about the cold. International weather reports, however, report maximum temperatures of +18 to +24 and night temperatures of +10 during the last ten days before the broadcast. Only one of the days had rain showers. The same “cold” has continued after the New Year.
Israel attacks in Lebanon and Syria
30.12.25 NRK TV Nyhetsåret 2025 Wolasmal + 030125 NRK Nyheter kl. 9.00: Reporter Magnus Vattekar Sandvoll: Israel constantly violates the ceasefire agreements with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, he omits to mention the violations of the opposing side. Hamas regularly launches needle-prick attacks (see 08.10.25 above) while Hezbollah is still present south of the Litani River and rebuilding itself (see next point). Both refuse disarmament as the agreements stipulate.
07.01.26 al-Jadeed TV, Lebanon / OSINTWarfare / msn.com: Photos leaked by the Lebanese army show the discovery of a large Hezbollah weapons depot between Kafra and Seddikin, well south of the Litani River with drones, rockets and ammunition. Heard anything from NRK about this?
07.01.26 NRK news 13.20: Wolasmal once again reports that Israel constantly attacks in Syria, but says nothing about American-Jordanian attacks near Palmyra, together with British-French air strikes against Syrian territory. He does not mention the many militia groups, including IS and Al-Qaeda, and further repeats that Israel occupies Syrian territory, but as usual nothing about Turkey’s occupation in northern Syria.
02.03.26 NRK Dagsrevyen: Wolasmal reports more than 1000 Israeli violations of the latest ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, but does not mention Hezbollah’s many violations (see e.g. 07.01.26 above), only what provoked the latest counter-attacks from Israel. Nevertheless he should be praised for stating that the people in Lebanon are “furious” with Hezbollah about the present situation. That is rare NRK fare.
Demonstrations
11.05.25 Dagsrevyen: A large pro-Israel demonstration in Oslo with Members of Parliament, party leaders and at least 400–500 participants is not mentioned. A killed journalist in Gaza, however, receives one of the main headlines. (Cf. 11.05.25 above.)
18.05.25 Helgemorgen, Linda Marie Vedeler, Melodi Grand Prix reporter, Basel: “There were large demonstrations down in the city centre. There was a pro-Palestine demonstration of up to 100 people, perhaps more as well …”
26.05.25 Dagsrevyen: One of the main headlines is a demonstration with 10 Palestine activists inside the Ministry of Finance and 12–15 outside. Some are masked. They carry banners with the Palestine Committee’s logo in which Israel is erased from the map. NRK, as usual, does not problematise this and again gives space to a pro-Palestine demonstration even though it is small.
Genocide
23.08.25 Helgemorgen: The UN’s former Special Coordinator in the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, was very clear in describing Hamas’s cynical game with its own civilian population from day one in order to weaken Israel’s reputation. He calls it “the ultimate form of moral cynicism”. Programme host A. E. Tønseth deserves praise for asking about Hamas, for that is rare fare in NRK. Unfortunately he confronts neither Foreign Minister Barth Eide nor J. Haldorsen from the Red Cross with this in the same broadcast, and Odd Karsten Tveit is allowed without opposition to state that Israel is committing genocide.
18.11.25 NRK Debatten: Falkenberg Mikkelsen refused to apologise for the use of the resolution from IAGS which claims that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Dagbladet, however, prostrated itself and apologised. In this organisation of genocide experts anyone can become a member for USD 30. Among others A. Hitler is listed as a member. They otherwise have several dozen members from Iraq …
09.01.26 Dagsrevyen: Interviewees are regularly allowed unchallenged to use the term genocide about Israel, most recently in SV’s election campaign evaluation (Steinar Nørstebø) and Mari Boine before a Palestine concert 24.01.26 in Laurdagsrevyen.
The clearest rebuke of this has not come from NRK, but from Erna Solberg towards Wolasmal (01.09.25, “Yama utfordrer”): Solberg reprimanded the star journalist and instructed him in the use of the term: “We do not throw around that type of concept!”
South Africa has submitted a genocide accusation against Israel to the ICJ, thoroughly covered by NRK. But has NRK informed that 2 months earlier the South African minister Naledi Pandor met Iran’s president and foreign minister (Oct. -23)? Or that in Jan. -24 the bankrupt-threatened ANC suddenly emerged from its financial crisis? Or that South Africa and Hamas already in 2015 signed a memorandum of understanding in which South Africa undertakes to support Hamas?
13.01.26 NRK Ekko: An expert introduced as an “empire historian”, Jonas Fossli Gjersø, is allowed to elaborate on the foreign-policy situation. He is allowed unchallenged to present the following: “There are two colonial wars taking place these days: in Ukraine with Russian imperialism, but also in Palestine with Western imperialism where one quite clearly violates international law.” Israel in the expert’s world is the result of Western colonialism. Programme host Jean Christine Cena does not have the knowledge or the courage to challenge the “empire historian”, or she was so astonished that she lost speech. Could she have asked Gjersø about Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman ambitions? About Iran’s extensive network as far as Venezuela with warfare via proxies?
31.01.26 Dagsrevyen: Sissel Wold reports new attacks from Israel with casualty figures from the “Gaza health authorities”. Who are they, by the way? NRK has nothing about any possible cause of the attacks. The question is why we must go to BBC World Service to obtain the background: they report the same day that a group of Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel and fighting occurred.
On the basis of the pattern we see above, the question is whether NRK’s angles and omissions contribute to creating an opinion that makes it dangerous to wear Jewish symbols, and where we read “Hitler started it. We finished it” at Furuset underground station. It appears that the state broadcaster should expend a couple of additional rounds of source criticism and internal discussion in order to avoid the most glaring examples of miscommunication.
In the autumn campaign from editor-controlled media it says: “It is easy to be deceived. And it is wise to be a little critical.” Important NRK must take care that it does not meet itself at the door.