Are Norwegian leftists pro-Israel or pro-Palestine ?
In the 90s I knew a teacher in a senior high school who was full-blooded Leftist. In the 60s he had gone as kibbutzim to the new nation of Israel in order to celebrate internationalism and communism, working on farm land stolen from the Palestinians by the UN. The kibbutz had in Norway the reputation of being idyllic farms for Communists. Leftists from various Western countries gathered in Israel in order to build a new nation. The contradictions involved in this project surpass even the imagination. Back in Norway my friend worked on his impressions and experiences and turned out being pro-Palestine, although not entirely anti-Israeli. He was not anti-Israeli because he was profoundly Holocaustic, convinced that the Jews were the hardest struck victims by non-Jewish evilness during world history. Anyhow, seeing the sufferings of Palestinians as consequence of the Israeli nation-building, he walked around in Oslo during decades with his Palestinian scarf. He is probably still wearing i
