Dual citizen harassed after burning her Israeli passport

Mia Sol Stoelen, an activist living in Norway who burned her Israeli passport to protest the genocide in Gaza, said Israel has become “a society made up of extremes.”

The daughter of an Israeli father and a Norwegian mother, Stoelen lived in Tel Aviv for seven years as a dual citizen.

She said that during her time in Israel she initially did not see the situation as an occupation and “thought that it was like we’re all kind of living together.”

But she eventually realised she was “very ignorant” and understood the reality of apartheid after a trip to the occupied West Bank.

“I think they’ve fallen victim to state propaganda and they are very much brainwashed by their media,” she said.

Stoelen also recalled receiving threatening messages from a person in Oslo after sharing a video of herself burning her Israeli passport.

“One of them sent me a photo with a gun and then said that he and some others were going to come and chop me into pieces.”

She criticised the Norwegian police for mishandling the situation and accused Norway of being complicit in Israel’s war crimes.

“Because they have invested 22.6 billion Norwegian Kroner ($2.2 billion) in occupation-linked companies and so they are directly profiting from the loss of human life… They are essentially showing that they value shareholder value above humanity,” Stoelen added.



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