Just when you think the worldwide anti-Israel brigade can’t do worse in expressing its hatred of the tiny Jewish state, someone, or some group, comes along to outdo the others. This Hanukkah, the prize goes to… the country of Norway, or rather to the Socialist Left Party in Norway. More on how it chose to celebrate Hanukkah can be found here: “Norway’s Socialist Left Party Sparks Outrage With Hanukkah Ceremony ‘For the People of Palestine,’” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, December 22, 2025:
A political party in Norway sparked outrage within the local Jewish community after holding a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony “for the people of Palestine,” the latest controversy tied to the party’s long-standing anti-Israel record as the Norwegian government continues its hostile stance toward the Jewish state.
On Sunday, Norway’s Socialist Left Party, widely regarded as the most anti-Israel party in the Norwegian parliament, organized a public gathering during the holiday of Hanukkah to light a menorah. However, the party dedicated the ceremony “to the victims in Palestine,” rather than honoring the Jewish tradition, which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, the restoration of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, and the freedom of Jewish faith and culture.
“Today we lit candles to mark Hanukkah – together with Jewish Voices for Just Peace and The Palestinian Committee. This is what solidarity is all about. Standing up to injustice, no matter where. Standing together for human dignity, no matter who,” the party wrote in a post on Instagram.
“The marking emphasizes the struggle for the liberation of all people and against antisemitism and racism,” the statement read. “Values that know no boundaries based on religion or ethnicity, but about which we all can and must unite. No one is free until everyone is free.”
This latest controversy follows diplomatic tensions that were sparked last month when pro-Palestinian Norwegian organizations held a ceremony in Oslo to commemorate an infamous 1938 Nazi pogrom, drawing parallels between Nazi atrocities and Israel’s defensive military campaign in Gaza.
On Nov. 9, 1938, Nazi paramilitary forces launched a coordinated nationwide attack on the German Jewish community — burning synagogues, destroying homes and businesses, and deporting thousands — a violent event that has come to be remembered as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass.
The onslaught left at least 91 Jews dead and 30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps. Over 7,000 Jewish-owned stores were looted.
“This is not a joke. One of the parties represented in Norway’s Parliament, the Socialist Left Party, chose this week to light a public menorah in central Oslo — ‘for the people of Palestine and the victims there,’” Swedish Jewish journalist Daniel Schatz wrote in a post on X.
“A Jewish symbol, tied to the holiday of Hanukkah, was deliberately appropriated to advance an anti-Israel agenda,” Schatz continued.
“This took place the very same week Jews were massacred in Australia,” he added, referring to the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach that killed 15 people and wounded at least 40 others. “If this is where Norway’s political culture stands, then yes — Norway is lost.”…
Norway’s relationship with the Jewish state has deteriorated significantly after the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which ignited the war in Gaza, with Oslo becoming one of the most outspokenly hostile countries toward Jerusalem on the global stage.
Yes, it all makes sense, in a topsy-turvical hideous sort of way. Six thousand members of Hamas, and several hundred Gazan civilians, smash into Israel, where they proceed to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis and kidnap 253, on October 7, 2023, and since then Norway has become ever more hostile, not to Hamas, but to Israel, for daring to fight back against its tormentors who, if they could, would murder every last Jew in Israel.
Many Norwegians want to see Israel squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, which would leave it stripped of territory vital to its defense, including the Jordan Valley, and with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, which would allow an invasion force from the east to cut the country in two in a matter of hours. And on the land Israel would be forced to surrender, a “state of Palestine” — already recognized by Norway — would be created, that would serve, as Gaza did after 2005 when Israel pulled out of the Strip, as a launching pad for attacks on Israel.
And some Norwegians want Israel to disappear altogether, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state.
The Socialist Left Party in Norway has just twisted the solemn Jewish ceremony of Hanukkah to celebrate, not a miracle of Jewish history, but those who would, if they could, destroy the Jewish state and most of its inhabitants. In World War II, Vidkun Quisling was the pro-Nazi traitor who ruled Norway during the German occupation. Now Norway itself, in turning so hideously on Israel, and embracing the jihadists who threaten it, has become a quisling to the entire West.
somehistory says
Blindly following satan, doing his every evil desire. If they could, they would travel in time and take away the victory of the Maccabees. They would take away the demise of hitler, furthering his insane rage and desire to destroy all of the Jews. They would help the Roman army murder and enslave even more of the Jews found in Jerusalem.
Since they cannot do those things, they take a symbol and celebration of victory honoring Jews, and use it to further their evil, their ‘father’s evil desires.
These terrorists are sowing so much evil seed, their reaping will overwhelm them. They will cease to celebrate; they will cease to exist.
ploome says
regarding:
“A Jewish symbol, tied to the holiday of Hanukkah, was deliberately appropriated to advance an anti-Israel agenda,”
what Jewish symbol has not been appropriated to discredit and deny Judaism in the never-ending attempt to claim Jewish “symbols” as their own, while eliminating Jews?
Reinterpreted, misinterpreted and distorted?
carpediadem says
Regardless of their intent, they’ve actually conducted a ceremony whereby supporters of socalled Palestine rededicate the Temple with Chanuka candles.
I’m ok with that.;)
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So a festival of a certain faith is held in honor of people who not only loathe that faith, but are dedicated to a genocide of all adherents of that faith. Absolutely makes sense
All that stuff about Jews having exceptionally high IQs – events like these lead me to question that!
somehistory says
I recall that many have said “dirty” when speaking about this *certain faith.* Not wanting to touch etc. But when they invaded Israel two years ago, Oct., some of them ate the food which Jews had prepared for their families.
They rape…which is more than “touching” those they see as dirty; murdering so many.
muzzies take so much evil pleasure in hurting others that they contradict other things they claim to be their practices.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Very true! On one hand, they consider infidels repugnant and unclean: on the other hand, they want to have sex w/ them – from ages 6 to 106. Like I’ve said many times here, logic is verboten in islam
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Just a reminder, there is no logic in islam.
But you knew that already.
ploome says
Did you read this post?
It was
Norway’s Socialist Left Party, widely regarded as the most anti-Israel party in the Norwegian parliament, organized a public gathering during the holiday of Hanukkah to light a menorah. The Socialist Left Party, chose this week to light a public menorah in central Oslo — ‘for the people of Palestine and the victims there,”
It was not the “Jews having exceptionally high IQs”
somehistory says
He probably is referring to this part (I noticed it and wondered why in the world?)
“together with Jewish Voices for Just Peace”
If they **are** Jews….
ploome says
exactly…you are correct…these groups call themselves anything to damage their targets
gravenimage says
Infidel, this travesty was *not* held by Jews.
somehistory says
A few days ago, an article was posted and one part had the experience of a Jew who told his neighbor he was nervous about putting the candles in his window as his young son wanted to do. His neighbor, who is not a Jew, put one in her window and so he decided to start a program whereby non-Jews would feel free to do as his neighbor had done…to show solidarity.
The article pointed out that some Jews are okay with that, while others feel it shouldn’t be; they said it feels like the Gentiles are appropriating what does not belong to them and their history.. One even said the Gentiles should get a certain procedure done and “then we can talk.”
ploome says
lol
After millennia we have learned to embrace and respect our shared Judeo Christian legacy.
Islam is our common aggressor, mandated by their deen to humiliate and terrorize us into submission. It is easier to do that if we are first divided. And that is what they are trying to do.
But their numbers are overwhelming, and they understand how to take every advantage of our desire to believe all people are good, and have the same desire for a good and peaceful life.
But you all well know, they worship a deceiver, and they are all deceivers.
gravenimage says
Norway: A Hanukkah Ceremony in Honor of the ‘Palestinians’
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WTF?
jerry glenn says
Norway surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
ploome says
lol
it’s a very close race with surging Europe…..
somehistory says
“New Yorkers enraged over Times Square Christmas billboard that proclaims ‘Jesus is Palestinian'”
“The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) launched a controversial billboard campaign in the popular New York City tourist spot ahead of Christmas in an attempt to raise awareness about Gaza.
The campaign features two digital messages about the geographical and cultural origins of Jesus Christ, who according to the Bible was born in Bethlehem, a city in the Palestinian West Bank territory.
‘Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas,’ the first message reads. The second featured a passage from the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, in which the birth of Jesus was announced.
‘Remember when the angels proclaimed, “O Mary! Allah gives you good news of a Word from Him, his name will be the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary; honored in this world and the Hereafter, and he will be one of those nearest to Allah”,’ the verse said. The phrase ‘Merry Christmas’ was alongside the passage in both Arabic and English.
The ADC was heavily criticized over the billboard, with many social media users pointing out how Jesus – as detailed in the Bible – was Jewish. ”
Why not say Jesus was a Jew? ( I often wonder when people write “Jewish”….)
“Others noted how Palestine did not exist at the time of Jesus, with the region instead being under Roman rule and known as Judea.
But most visitors were frustrated by a ‘divisive’ message being put on display during what is meant to be a season of peace and giving. ”
The muzzie group, headed by a lying muzzie, wants to appropriate everything, even those things they hate. It’s a form of theft. muzzies are thieving liars, rapists and murderers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-yorkers-enraged-over-times-square-christmas-billboard-that-proclaims-jesus-is-palestinian/ar-AA1T1sbc?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=694d8e9b908b4319a81336745be7609d&ei=4
Kepha says
What is this? Another “Dumb Scandinoovian” joke?