Hat tip Ledarsidorna. Translation by Fousesquawk.
Black Lives Matter (the organization) has not only been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a dim-witted Norwegian MP, but this week, has been awarded something called the Olof Palme Human Rights Prize, named after the socialist Swedish prime minister who was assassinated on a street in downtown Stockholm in 1986. To this date, his killer has never been captured or positively identified. Palme was a fierce critic of the US, particularly during the Vietnam war. The above two links come from liberal news organs in the UK, the BBC, and the Guardian. I assume they both approve of the respective selections.
There is something about peace/human rights prizes in Scandinavia that makes you shake your head. The Nobel Peace Prize has been handed out to such "deserving" figures as Yasser Arafat (who was a terrorist), Al Gore, and Barack Obama (for some inexplicable reason just after he became president). Now it's BLM, in recognition of all those "peaceful" protests in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Kenosha, and other American cities that went up in flames this past summer.
I have no idea why Antifa wasn't named co-winner since they have worked hand-in-glove with BLM on the streets of our cities. Must have been an oversight.
Oh, this just in: Stacy Abrams has just been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by some other goofy Socialist Norwegian MP-joining Greta Thunberg.
But lest the reader conclude that everyone in Scandinavia is out of their minds, we have this critical commentary from Ledarsidorna, a conservative Swedish blog that I have linked often. Their reaction to the Olaf Palme award to BLM-and the award itself- is less than gushing. Maybe they took the time to watch some of BLM's peaceful protests on video.
Before some wise guy points out to me that another Norwegian MP nominated ex-President Trump for a Nobel prize, I will preempt him by stating that the reason was Trump's diplomatic triumphs in the Middle East getting several Arab nations to normalize relations with Israel. Actually, I would have given the prize to Jared Kushner since he was leading the effort on the ground-and I was one of those who laughed when Kushner was appointed to lead that effort. But no matter; neither one will win it.
But without further ado, here is our translation of the Ledarsidorna article.
https://ledarsidorna.se/2021/01/darfor-gick-2020-ars-olof-palme-pris-till-black-lives-matter/
Why the 2020 Olof Palme Prize went to Black Lives Matter
The recipient of the 2020 Olof Palme Prize for 2020, Black Lives Matter, can be described as logical against the background of the movement's composition and its respective individual positions or expressed sympathies. Positions for totalitarian states or membership in alternative movement organizations with explicit Marxist or anti-Semitic values.
Civil rights organization Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation gets 2020 Olof Palme Prize. Olof Palme's Memorial Fund explains the reason in writing.
"Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation works for peaceful civil disobedience against police brutality and racist violence throughout the whole world. The BLM movement, in the broadest sense, has uniquely highlighted the African-American minority's vulnerability, pain, and anger over not being valued like people of other skin colors."
Black Lives Global Network Foundation is a decentralized movement that was founded by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi. The trio had then reacted to Trayvon Martin's death and the subsequent police investigation.
The movement grew strongly after the protests in Ferguson in 2014, and last summer made an enormous international impact in connection with the protests against the police intervention that led to George Floyd's death.
Among prize winners from previous years, there are Holocaust survivors Hedi Fried and Emerich Roth, author John Le Carre, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Rosa Taikon.
The prize is awarded annually for an especially significant effort in Olof Palme's spirit. The prize is awarded, whenever possible, on Olof Palme's birthday, January 30. The Olof Palme Prize consists of a diploma and a prize sum of 100,000 US dollars.
Black Lives Matter's anti-Semitic and violent history
The BLM movement has a close connection and cooperation with the BDS movement; Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions, directed against the state of Israel. The BDS movement's warmest advocate is Anna Karin Hammar, of the Swedish Church. The BDS movement has been classified by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as an anti-Semitic organization.
Fousesquawk comment:
So for what is BLM being awarded the Olof Palme Prize? Protesting racism and actual incidents of police brutality is one thing. Violence, destruction, intimidation, and targeting of Jewish neighborhoods (as occurred in Los Angeles) is quite another. Let's take a look.
In 2015, BLM protesters marched through St Paul, Minnesota chanting, "Pigs in blanket, Fry'em like bacon".
Was that in the spirit of Olof Palme? Maybe it was; I don't know.
Of course, the most glaring example of BLM's "peaceful protests" occurred in Minneapolis in 2020 n the wake of the George Floyd incident. Despite the flames burning in the background, the liberal media, for example, MSNBC, called it "peaceful".
Or "peaceful civil disobedience, as the Olaf Palme Foundation would call it.
On May 30, 2020, the BLM movement arrived in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles supposedly protesting the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police. This is a historically-Jewish area of the city. Rioters rode through the streets shouting, "F---the Jews", spray-painting synagogues, and looting shops. The mainstream media did not dare call it what it was-an anti-Jewish pogrom.
Was that in the spirit of Olof Palme? Maybe it was; I don't know.
In August 2020, BLM "protesters" turned Kenosha, Wisconsin into a war zone after police killed a black man during a violent arrest situation.
Was that in the spirit of Olof Palme? I don't know; maybe it was.
And then there were the smaller gestures ("efforts" according to the Palme folks) such as these (white) BLM activists intimidating diners in restaurants in Washington DC into repeating, "Black lives matter".
We could go on and on listing cities that burned last summer. We could mention the (black) retired St Louis cop who was shot dead defending his friend's store from looters. Was it all BLM? No. Many of those who participated carried no BLM membership cards (if there are any). Many were Antifa-types. Those are predominantly white. Many were just opportunists and anarchists looking for an excuse to engage in violence and destruction. But to say there was no BLM involvement in the violence is to defy common sense. They must bear their share of responsibility in the violence.
And for some dopey Scandinavian organizations (of which there are far too many) to hand peace/human rights prizes to BLM is obscene.
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