Glenn Beck: Norway murder victims like Hitler Youth Right-wing broadcaster draws serious criticism as usual when

he talks about the Labor Party youth camps on the Norwegian island of Utoya, where dozens were massacred. Prime minister's spokesman in Oslo: this is a new low
Ynet, July 26 2011 [Hebrew original here] Has he overdone it this time? Glenn Beck, the American broadcasterpreacher who visited Israel a month ago and was embraced by right-wing figures, said that the Labor Party youth camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya, in which dozens were massacred during the combined attack by Anders Behring Breivik on Saturday, reminded him of a Hitler Youth camp. "As the thing started to unfold and there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing," said Beck, the darling of the American right-wing Tea Party on his daily radio program. Torbjrn Eriksen, a former press secretary to Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's prime minister, described the comment as "a new low" for the broadcaster, who has frequently been forced to apologize for offensive remarks. He told The Daily Telegraph "Glenn Beck's comments are ignorant, incorrect and extremely hurtful." Glenn Beck's many extreme comments led the heads of the cable news network Fox News, identified with the right, to cancel his daily TV program a month ago. At first the program was successful but gradually began to harm the channel's reputation. Beck made frequent references to the Holocaust and Hitler on his show, which made Jewish organizations in the US lead the campaign to have it canceled. Earlier this year 400 rabbis signed a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, accusing Beck of drawing inspiration from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Among other things, the rabbis wrote that Beck "diminishes the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when he uses it to discredit any individual or organization he disagrees with." At first Fox news reacted to the letter forcefully and even Beck and self said on one of his programs a few weeks later that "reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just -- radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the reform Judaism, it is more about politics. After that comment the reform rabbis were joined by Orthodox rabbis, and the Anti-Defamation League called his comments "dogmatic ignorance." Beck

apologized, but the Jewish pressure increased and finally, whether or not for that reason, his program was cancelled.