Just as Fox News is the idiot-right’s favourite conduit for sensationalised and bigoted histrionics, so academia has become the favoured outlet of the same for the idiot-left.
From Chomsky and Finkelstein, to the Jew-obsessed shenanigans of the UCU, we have chronicled much of the antisemitic far-left. Who can forget, for example, the case of Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley who gave twisted academic weight to claims that Israel harvested the human organs of its enemies and of disaster victims, theorising that it was because of “greed” and “revenge, restitution—reparation for the Holocaust.”?
This week, we have the case of Prof Ola Tunander, a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Oslo, Norway. Tunander has published an article in a peer-reviewed journal suggesting that Israel was behind the terrorist attack in Norway carried out by Anders Brevik.
The Local, the English-language Norwegian paper sets out the story:
He reaches the conclusion that terrorist acts of such magnitude are seldom possible without the involvement of state forces, “and we can’t rule out that being the case this time too.”
In the midst of a web of alternative theories, Tunander lays out a “simple chronology” detailing the fractious diplomatic relationship between Norway and Israel in the months before the massacre, with Oslo indicating it would be willing to recognize a Palestinian state.
On two occasions, the Sweden-born professor notes the significance of the date of the attacks.
First, he travels back to 1973, when members of the Israeli spy agency Mossad were arrested on July 22nd after a botched operation in which they assassinated the wrong person on Norwegian soil.
He also calls to mind the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem by Zionist paramilitary group Irgun, which took place on July 22nd 1946.
“We have discussed the right-wing extremist Israeli and Judeo-Christian side of Breivik’s network, Israel’s interest in disciplining Norway, and Israel’s celebration of bomb attacks. In this respect, Breivik’s attack appears to resemble a new King David Hotel attack: July 22nd,” he writes.
Prof Tunander – of course – makes the usual equivocation saying he isn’t responsible for how people interpret his article. How does he expect people to interpret comments like “Israel’s interest in disciplining Norway” and wild claims that Israel “celebrated” Brevick’s attack.
PRIO director Kristian Berg Harpviken – who says he has no doubt as to what the insinuation is – has distanced himself from Tunander’s article saying it gave him “considerable unease”.
