Rød Ungdom (RU) has posted a video in which they joke about the bomb at the American embassy last weekend.
On its website, the youth party has also named “three brothers” as heroes of the week, referring to the attack.
A few months ago, Amrit Kaur, former leader of the youth wing of the party Rødt, disappeared after releasing a video in which it appeared that she was celebrating the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Kaur also attracted attention when in May she labelled Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and the head of the sovereign wealth fund (oljefondet) Nicolai Tangen as terrorists. The background was the war in the Gaza Strip.
Murder and terrorism are evidently humour for these young politicians, particularly if the victims are Americans, or Israel is involved.
Se video: Rød Ungdom-leder Amrit Kaur smiler og feirer Charlie Kirks dødsfall
In a video on TikTok that Rød Ungdom posted on Friday one could read:
“When he lowkey is ugly, but he tried to explode the American embassy so it’s okay”.
Three young men, all from Iraq, have been arrested and remanded in custody for terror bombing. Their mother is also suspected of complicity in the case.
The party secretary of Rødt, Reidar Strisland, criticises the youth party, writes Nettavisen.
– Rødt fully and completely distances itself from all forms of violence and terror, and expects Rød Ungdom to do the same. This is not funny.
According to VG, the women who can be seen in the video are members of the youth party’s central committee and responsible for social media.
– We react strongly to the fact that the reactions to three brothers blowing up a window at the US embassy are substantially different from the reactions to the United States’ repeated war crimes and wars for oil. The video is humour and satire, as is also stated in the description, and we wish to raise a broader discussion and place US great-power politics on the agenda, writes Zelda Borgersrud Øgrim, who appears in the video, to VG.
– At the same time, we believe that the United States’ war crimes must receive more extensive reactions, compared with a broken window and an obviously satirical video, she says.
Borgersrud Øgrim claims that they do not defend violent attacks. But it appears that the youth party considers humour to be an appropriate reaction.