{"id":146387,"date":"2025-05-17T06:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=146387"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:56:17","slug":"norway-to-boycott-the-rogue-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2025\/05\/17\/norway-to-boycott-the-rogue-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway boycotts the rogue state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110551\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/67A2891.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/67A2891.jpg 822w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/67A2891-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/67A2891-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Me neither, but nineteen months on we&#8217;re still protesting<\/h6>\n<p>Today I awoke on a London street that doesn&#8217;t have resident-only parking, having passed the night in the van. I&#8217;m about to have breakfast and coffee before taking a bus to Embankment Station, where I&#8217;ll join the throngs gathering to march on Downing Street in protest at a UK Government up to its neck in genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Today is also Norway&#8217;s Constitution Day. A year ago to the day I stood on Pulpit Rock; its table-top summit twenty-five metres square, its west face plunging six hundred metres sheer into Lysefjord. Also present were Norwegians less casually decked out &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122114\" src=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67A4998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"794\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67A4998.jpg 794w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67A4998-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67A4998-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; they take the day seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I say this not entirely in passing. Norway has twice caught my attention of late. First thanks to a YouTube short featuring Afghan-Norwegian journalist, Yama Wolasmal, interviewing Israeli Government spokesman David Mencer. Who do you suppose came over as calm, well informed and unwaveringly on-topic, who as a peddler in lies easily shown as such and underpinned by the preposterous fiction that, from 2005 to October 2023, Gaza was an independent entity with free agency to choose its destiny?<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t possibly say. Judge for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Afghan-Norwegian journalist Yama Wolasmal interviewing David Mencer (Israel&#039;s Chief of Propaganda)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZMShih0_qs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">*<\/span><\/h6>\n<p>The second was by way of English vlogger Kerno Damo, on how Norway&#8217;s umbrella trade union organisation just voted by a landslide for a total boycott of Israel. For why that really, <em>really<\/em>\u00a0 matters, here&#8217;s the man himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jaw-Dropping BDS Sanctions Just Stunned Israel!\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lsiezZ9W9JA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;ve a demo to attend. Must dash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me neither, but nineteen months on we&#8217;re still protesting Today I awoke on a London street that doesn&#8217;t have resident-only parking, having passed the night in the van. I&#8217;m about to have breakfast and coffee before taking a bus to &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2025\/05\/17\/norway-to-boycott-the-rogue-state\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-middle-east","category-politics-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146387"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146415,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146387\/revisions\/146415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}