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A new book, by a Norwegian leftist:

From news article:
Eirik Eiglad is neither Israeli nor right-wing but a left-wing Norwegian. His book “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” punches great, gaping holes not only in the conspiracy theory Støre so eagerly grasped after in January. Ms.Waage’s story of right-wing Israelis conducting a smear campaign against Norway is simply blown out of the water, quite simply because even if there was such a conspiracy it could not possibly “orchestrate” a left-wing activist such as Eiglad, who refuses to be orchestrated even by the movement to which he himself belongs - the Norwegian left. Yet the value of Eiglad’s short treatise goes beyond the dismantlement of a conspiracy theory. It pierces to the very core of Norway’s perception of herself as a righteous nation whose criticism of Israel is motivated entirely by humanitarian concerns.

Anti-Jewish riots in Oslo



The 103 widely spaced pages of “The anti-Jewish riots in Oslo” is a narration of the riots of January 2009 when rioters, under the pretext of demonstrating against Israel’s war against Hamas, turned downtown Oslo into a four-day war zone. Eiglad points to the calls of “kill the jews”, to the placards commemorating Khaybar, to the attacks on the institutions of what anti-Semites perceive to be Jewish power (The Freemason’s Lodge, McDonald’s, etc), to the physical violence, and all the time to the lacking ability of the Norwegian Left to discriminate between legitimate and disproportionate criticism of Israel not to speak of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.