Coming back of Quisiling's Norway

Let me show you some picture divided by approximately 70 years but not by a place

There...

All of them taken in Norway, the last showing Norway's Jews deported to death camps

And now...

All of them but the one before last taken also in Norway. The first showing desecrated Jewish burial ground, the next antisemitic writing as if taken straight from the times shown on first 3 pictures, one the caricature from Norwich paper and the last one Palestinian bishop Munib Younan during his 2010 visit to Norway and Sweden where he stated: " We Arab bishops like Scandinavia, they share our latent anti-Semitism!" Truly he was honest and by the fact that this statement was accepted nobody's denying it.

Norway  was Nazi Germany close ally, it deported its Jews to death, collaborated through all war, accepted its share of Nazi gold. Quisling's regime, viciously racist and Antisemitic ended with him being put on trial and hanged. Of course he wasn't the only one collaborating or sympathizing with Nazis in Europe. But it is hard to imagine today French citizens praising Vichy regime or Slovaks praising Tiso's one and Quisling is becoming more and more praised figure among young Nordic people.

There was a time (specially when I was a child) when Scandinavia was primarily a symbol of honesty (I remember those tales about shops where there were no employees, clients were taking what they needed and leaving money, even if only few and in rural communities for a child behind iron curtain it sounded like fairy tale became true), liberty, caring for all citizens. I remember when on December night 1981 the last ferry to Stockholm before declaring marshal law in Poland was reversed to Poland. People were jumping to icy cold Baltic to escape it.

Over 30 years have passed, the world changed, now both Norway and Sweden for many (not only myself) are connected not only to wealthy (still) countries with breathtaking landscapes but also with ugly, omnipresent Antisemitism ignored or shared by authorities. Like when cementeries are desecrated, synagogues put on fire (or tried to be put on fire, in Malmo already 3 times), Jews attacked verbally if still rarely physically (yet it happens) and reprimanded by authorities that if they don't want to declare hostility towards Israel it's their fault (nobody considers seriously freedom of thought and speech or simply the fact that they are Norway's citizens and what are their politic views should not be state's problem if they are honest, law-abiding and tax-paying).

Something went very, very, very wrong there. And it looks like after 70 or 80 years we're back in 30s at least when it comes to Antisemitism.