Fjordman is very likely Jewish; his father certainly looks to be.

There are only 1500 Jews in Norway totally, so subtracting out those over 25 and say under 15, that doesn’t leave very many within the age rage to be members of the AUF. There were probably very few Jews on Utøya.

In the 1990s, the AUF was caught inflating its membership numbers in order to receive extra subsidies from the government. This seems to be a common fraud scheme perpetrated by the left as the Norwegian “anti-fascist” organisation, SOS-Racism, was caught perpetrating the same scheme just last year.

Utøya was not an anti-Zionist rally. Utøya is (was) an annual political summer camp held by the AUF or Arbeidernes ungdomsfylking, which literally translates to the Workers’ Youth League, but is probably better translated as the Labour Youth League since, although it is an independent organisation, it really is the junior branch of Norway’s ruling Labour Party.

While I agree that it was clearly wrong to target people under the age of 18, and I don’t condone political violence in general, as someone in the thread here said, it really was the move of an “evil genius” to target Utøya. Utøya is where all the leaders of the Labour Party “grow up,” so in killing those attending Utøya, Breivik was, in fact, getting rid of many of the future leaders of the Labour Party. Additionally, many of those at Utøya were probably the children of current Labour Party politicians (the nephew of the current Minister of Trade was one of the individuals who escaped on the ferry), so there was also clearly some direct revenge here: you take away our children’s future, I (Breivik) will take away yours.

Finally, Utøya was a hugely symbolic place for the Labour Party. They’ve met there in their summer camp every year since the 1930s and most adult Labour Party politicians have fond memories of the place. The names of the places on the island reflect their ideology: Bolshevik cove, for instance. That has been taken away from them; they cannot go back there. If they do, it will never, ever feel the same again. Breivik took away the Labour Party’s symbolic heart.