Breivik: anti-semitic and pro-Zionist simultaneously
example · historical/Breivik ·
retold in 9 talks
Norwegian terrorist Breivik's manifesto is openly anti-semitic (Jews are a problem, Hitler did the work in Europe) yet simultaneously pro-Israel (support them there, just not here), exemplifying the logic of politically correct anti-immigration that uses the 'other' as a convenient screen.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 9
“He's at the same time openly anti-semitic... but at the same time he's totally pro-Israel.”
“He is literally an anti-Semitic pro-Zionist.”
“Breivik... totally antisemitic here, but there we fully support it.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
Zionist anti-Semitism
×7
politically correct anti-immigrant
×1
inherent transgression
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Anders Behring Breivik8Antony Blinken2Glenn Beck3Louis Antoine de Saint-Just3Zygmunt Bauman1Jagger, Mick1Antonescu, Ion1Sanader, Ivo1
alongside works
Every retelling 9
Norwegian terrorist Breivik's manifesto is openly anti-semitic (Jews are a problem, Hitler did the work in Europe) yet simultaneously pro-Israel (support them there, just not here), exemplifying the logic of politically correct anti-immigration that uses the 'other' as a convenient screen., illustrating politically correct anti-immigrant,European right and Zionism,inherent transgression
Anders Breivik's manifesto is simultaneously anti-Semitic (too many Jews in France and the US) and pro-Zionist (strong Israel as bulwark against Islam). Žižek reads this as the extreme form of a real ideological formation shared by Christian conservatives and Fox News., illustrating anti-Semitic pro-Zionism,ideology and the immigrant Other
The Norwegian mass murderer was, Žižek notes, totally antisemitic at home yet fully supportive of Israel, another instance of antisemitic Zionism., illustrating antisemitic Zionism
The Norwegian mass murderer Breivik was simultaneously a Zionist (supporting Israel as a barrier against Arab invasion) and an anti-Semite (warning against Jewish influence in the West), making him a case study of the contemporary anti-Semitic Zionist formation., illustrating anti-Semitic Zionism,fascism-populism
Breivik is not mad but perfectly consistent: in the West he wants to limit Jewish influence, yet in the Middle East he fully supports the Zionist project as the first line of defense against Islamic totalitarianism. This paradox of Zionist antisemitism is not exceptional, it is the position of the American radical right (Glenn Beck) and overlaps with mainstream European anti-immigrant politics., illustrating Zionist antisemitism,antisemitism as ideology par excellence
Breivik is simultaneously anti-Semitic and pro-Israel, viewing Israel as the first defense line against Muslim expansion; he wrote that Jews are acceptable as long as there are not too many, the US has a 'Jewish problem', Western Europe does not., illustrating Zionist-rightist pact,anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe