– As no apology has been received, and it has not been withdrawn. Then I think it is so far from the values and morals we stand for in Rødt, that there is absolutely reason to look at the support we give to Rød Ungdom, says Berby to NRK.
He admits that Amrit Kaur’s move might lead to a split between Rødt and the youth party.
– If we don’t see a different pace and tone, it will neither surprise nor surprise me, he says.
– Then I see that there are some attempts to calm down once more. I completely agree that it is a shame that we do not distance ourselves more clearly as a nation from the genocide we are seeing in Gaza today. But it is completely drowned in the kind of uppity statements that I feel are coming from Rød Ungdom now.
“Derailment”
Kaur published a Tiktok post on Friday in which she labeled Jonas Gahr Støre, Jens Stoltenberg and oil fund manager Nicolai Tangen as terrorists, among other things. In the post, she also mentions Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden.
Afterwards, Kaur withdrew the designation for Støre, but maintained it for Stoltenberg and Tangen. In a post on Facebook on Saturday morning, Kaur apologized for calling someone a terrorist.
– It was a derailment to call someone a terrorist, and by doing so I trivialized the experiences of the survivors and relatives. I apologize for that, know that it was absolutely not the intention, writes Kaur.
Criticism from party colleagues
However, she writes that she believes it is necessary to criticize the Støre government “when they relate passively to an ongoing genocide.”
On Saturday, Rødt’s Mímir Kristjánsson hit hard at Kaur’s description of Jonas Gahr Støre as a terrorist and wrote on his own Facebook page that he is both embarrassed and angry.
Party colleague in the Storting, Sofie Marhaug, also expresses on social media that the Red Youth leader misses badly with his plan.
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2024-05-04 19:24:38
