The Norway massacre and the anti-Zionist smear
In the aftermath of Anders Breivik\’s terrorist rampage in Norway, a \”blame the Jews\” theme has emerged: assertions that Breivik was driven by fanatical devotion to Israel.
In the aftermath of Anders Breivik\’s terrorist rampage in Norway, a \”blame the Jews\” theme has emerged: assertions that Breivik was driven by fanatical devotion to Israel.
“2083: A European Declaration of Independence” – the manifesto of the Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik – is a baggy 1,500-page document, made up in large part of other people’s essays on the Islamic threat to Europe.
In 1980, for the umpteenth time, someone asked the Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal whether “it could happen again” — “it” being the Holocaust. “You take hatred and technology and you add in a crisis, and anything can happen,” Wiesenthal replied. Last week, something tragic, horrific, almost beyond words happened.
Norway has just 1,500 Jews, but to hear Avi Ring tell it, the country is reacting to last Friday\’s bombing of a government office building and massacre at a political summer camp in a traditionally Jewish way.