A Norwegian newspaper removed an op-ed on its website asserting that U.S. media are unreliable because they are “dominated” by Jews.
The opinion article by pro-Palestinian activist Siri Lill Thowsen was taken down May 13 from the site of the Oslo-based daily Dagsavisen because it “gives support to old conspiracy theories about Jews controlling media,” said Managing Editor and Foreign News Editor Ivar Iversen.
Readers complained to Dagsavisen about the op-ed piece, which did not appear in the print edition but was published online May 12.
In the opinion piece, Thowsen wrote, “It has been claimed that over 50 percent of U.S. media are dominated by … [people] who have a Jewish affiliation. And so we assume that the news from many U.S. media is angled from a pro-Israel point of view and news of the Palestinian people’s human rights and legal protection rarely reaches the media.”
After the item’s removal, Thowsen complained of “censorship” and posted the text on her Facebook page. — jta