Norway’s Green Party (MDG) praises Minneapolis residents’ fight against the immigration police ICE and nominates them for the Nobel Peace Prize.
– Minneapolis responded with non-violence, solidarity, and a democratic backbone worthy of a peace prize, says MDG’s justice policy spokesperson Julie E. Stuestøl to NTB.
All resistance to federal authorities attempting to deport illegal migrants from the US is clearly celebrated by the Green Party, which—in classic socialist fashion—compares ICE to the Gestapo. They clearly need to read a history book on the Second World War and Nazism.
– The American immigration police ICE are behaving like Trump’s Gestapo: a force that spreads fear instead of security, trained to crush future resistance. When a state spreads fear in its own neighbourhoods in this way, civil resistance is not just legitimate, but necessary, she says.
– Antifascist self-defence
Minneapolis has been marked by unrest and protests in recent weeks after the Trump administration deployed a large number of federal agents to the city to crack down on illegal immigration.
The demonstrations in Minneapolis—following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal police—are being called antifascist demonstrations. But those of us who actually know a bit about history remember Churchill’s remark that the fascists of the future will call themselves antifascists.
– History shows that democracies don’t fall overnight, but when fear becomes normalised. The residents of Minneapolis refused to let that happen and set up an antifascist self-defence, organised with love and discipline, says Stuestøl.
– This is what real democratic courage looks like: tens of thousands meeting threats with non-violence and care for one another. It is the very foundation of peace.
Greta Thunberg also nominated
The deadline for nominating candidates for this year’s Nobel Prize expired on 31 January. Naturally, Greta Thunberg has been nominated—perhaps because she has displayed her antisemitism to the whole world in connection with the Gaza war?
This year MDG has also nominated Greta Thunberg, among other things for her engagement on climate, indigenous peoples, and Palestine.
What has Thunberg actually done for the climate?
The party’s MPs have also nominated the UN’s aid organisation for Palestinian refugees UNRWA, Moldova’s President Maia Sandu, the Sudanese grassroots movement Emergency Response Rooms, and the American climate researcher James E. Hansen.
The fact that several UNRWA employees participated in the terror against Israel on 7 October 2023 is apparently reason enough for MDG to nominate them for the peace prize.