'A cesspool of dirty secrets and hatred'
On Thursday, I blogged the latest rant by Norway's ambassador to Israel Svein Sevje. In Tuesday's JPost, Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld responded.
This expression of Israeli empathy was all the more impressive since after this tragic incident, hate-mongering directed at Israel by mainstream Norwegian society came again to the fore. Even if the Middle East was only one item on its agenda, the AUF camp at Utoya where Breivik murdered many can be characterized as an anti-Israel hate camp.Someone on this blog keeps asking me whether Breivik attended Utoya as well. I am trying to find out.
More information has since become available regarding how “successful” the demonization of Israel was at Utoya. When Breivik started firing some youngsters thought it was a demonstration of how Israeli soldiers shoot at Palestinian civilians. When I first read this story by German journalist Ulrich Sahm, it seemed unbelievable. I there upon contacted Sahm and he provided me with several sources for his story.
AUF is the youth movement of the Labor Party of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. As a young man he also attended the camp at Utoya. Many Labor party ministers come out of AUF. It is now a breeding ground for Israel-haters, some of whom will become prominent in the Labor Party.
Read it all.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Norwegian anti-Semitism, Svein Sevje, Utoya massacre
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:16 PM
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