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7 - Justifying Violence

from Part II - Anti-Zionism and the Far Left: The Case of Norway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2026

Torkel Brekke
Affiliation:
MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
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This chapter looks in detail at some of the movements and persons in Norway that have engaged in debates about the justice of terrorism against Israelis and Jews. The goal is to show how Jewish victims are consistently made invisible in the arguments that are made about the justification of violence. The common argument is that there is something special about the state of Israel because everybody serves in the military and therefore nobody is really innocent in the just war against the Jewish state. The chapter also looks at the cases of Norwegian and other young, Western radicals who traveled to Palestine in the 1970s and 1980s in order to take part in the war on the side of various Palestinian factions, including Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Therefore, this chapter links the historical narrative of the book to wider currents of political terrorism that have been explored not least in a German context with groups like the Rote Armee Fraktion.

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  • Justifying Violence
  • Torkel Brekke, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
  • Book: Antisemitism and Social Democracy
  • Online publication: 06 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009783316.010
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  • Justifying Violence
  • Torkel Brekke, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
  • Book: Antisemitism and Social Democracy
  • Online publication: 06 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009783316.010
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  • Justifying Violence
  • Torkel Brekke, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
  • Book: Antisemitism and Social Democracy
  • Online publication: 06 July 2026
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009783316.010
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