A question of wording

Published March 5, 2019 · Updated December 31, 2020

Aftenposten apologized for use of expression evoking Holocaust M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway On Feb. 13, Aftenposten ran an editorial feature in its print and online editions on the distinction between antisemitism and critique of Israel, aimed to dispel frequent confusion of the terms. The title of the print edition started with the expression, a compound word in Norwegian, Jødespørsmålet (the Jewish question). Despite being first used in English in the mid-18th century and now designating the broad debate of the 19th and 20th centuries on the status of and attitudes toward Jews in European society, Jødespørsmålet has an onerous overtone. From their ascent to power in 1933 through the end of World War II, the Nazis

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