Opinion The liberal dictatorship to watch out for Israel today

We have become accustomed to hearing about phenomena of extreme persecution under the auspices of the rule of law, mainly from the countries of the Middle East: Afghanistan, which forbids women to walk alone in the street;

Iran, where the "morality police" operate, beating women for not wearing the hijab properly, sometimes to the point of death;

Saudi Arabia, where women are required to show proof of identity to get married, work or open a bank account, and so on.

But one of the more strange occurrences that took place this week in the world, which did not receive any attention in Israel, is the Norwegian storm surrounding the local filmmaker Tonya Jebjon.

Jabjon is an avowed lesbian, who was opened against no less than a criminal investigation for spreading serious hate speech - an act for which the maximum penalty in Norway is three years in prison.

The "serious incitement" spread by the filmmaker is a post she published on Facebook, in which she dared to write: "It is impossible for a man to become a lesbian, just as it is impossible for a man to get pregnant. Men are men, regardless of their sexual fetishes."

On the face of it, the explanation for the opening of the criminal investigation against the creator stems from an amendment to the Penal Code made in the country in 2020, which stated that "gender identity and gender expression" are categories protected against hate speech.

On the face of it, it sounds reasonable, as long as it is not accompanied by the opening of a police investigation for expressing an opinion that does not contain any call for violence.

Norway is indeed considered one of the most progressive countries in Europe, but between that and the establishment of a Gestapo, a mind that persecutes and silences those who express an opinion, there should have been a long way to go.

The question arises: does all this even concern us, the citizens of Zion's citadel, protected by the wall from the roar of the storm and the thunder?

So the answer is: unequivocally yes.

In the last decade, Norway has transferred almost NIS 80 million to Israeli organizations, all of them on the spectrum between the left and the anti-Zionist left.

50 million shekels were transferred directly through official government entities, and an additional 30 million shekels through the "Norwegian Refugee Council", which, although it is also a Norwegian political entity, is simultaneously budgeted by the European Union and Great Britain.

Among the Israeli organizations that are funded by the liberal dictatorship, one can find the anti-Zionist organization "Betzlem", "The Center for the Protection of Individuals" and "The Association for Civil Rights", which defend terrorists and their families in courts;

the Yesh Din organization, which works to prosecute Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague;

The delegitimization organization "Breaking the Silence" and more.

There is no doubt that the State of Israel must lead clear legislation to stop the funds coming to local organizations from enemy countries, and from those with which Israel has no official relations.

Certainly from countries where the human rights situation is terrible, and that there is no reason for them to promote their extreme agendas within us.

But according to the radicalization currently taking place in Norway, the gradual establishment of a progressive dictatorship that persecutes those with a different opinion, it would be worthwhile at some point to consider how to seal the loopholes directed in its direction as well.

Matan Peleg is the chairman of the "If You Want" movement and the author of the book "A State for Sale"

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