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Far from all NTNU academics are convinced of the necessity of imposing an academic boycott on Israel. Here is the stance of NTNU academic Bjørn K.Alsberg. Unauthorized translation: A boycott of Israel? (14.9.09, 13:37) An academic boycot of Israel? In May 2009 some employees at NTNU and HIST wrote an open letter to their respective boards where they [...] Is it correct for a university to host a series of seminars on a conflict, with only one side of the story being told? Say that an American university was to host seminars on Norway’s war in Afghanistan – ought the seminars only to focus on the sufferings of the Afghan population, or ought the [...] For a long time Scandinavia was a faraway nowhere-land of plenty. Nothing much happened up here, except maybe Volvo would produce a new model or there would be a delightful abundance of snow for christmas. Then the milk and honey went to our leaders’ heads. They decided to export Scandinavian virtues to the rest of [...] Professor John J. Mearsheimer co-authored “The Israel Lobby” with Stephen Walt. Little could they have known that after writing this book they would first be endorsed by Osama Bin-Laden, and then afterwards invited to speak at prestigious institutions in faraway Norway. While Mr. Walt will be lecturing at NTNU’s autumn seminar-series on Israel, Mr. Mearsheimer is [...] Back in March, the Jerusalem Post published an erroneous article on anti-Semitism in Norway. Now we Norwegians, as opposed to Israelis, are not used to having erroneous articles printed about us in foreign newspapers. So naturally there was a legitimate outcry and the JP retracted their article. Some Norwegians had the decency to point out [...] The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has accused Norway of upholding anti-Israel and anti-Semitic policies. Lieberman is to have mentioned especially Norway’s “quiet support” of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and commemoration of Nazi-affiliated author Knut Hamsun. Lieberman is vaguely right, but for the wrong reasons. Jonas Gahr Støre would listen to the Devil himself, [...] Allegations against other countries should not be made with ease. Yet for Norway, so quick to condemn Israel, it is difficult to cry “foul” over allegations made against Norway by Sri Lanka. Unauthorized translation from Verdens Gang, Norway’s largest daily: A Sri Lankan newspaper writes that Norway is to have contributed to meetings between the guerilla organization [...] A UK school appears to have avoided selecting the Holocaust as a coursework topic out of “…fear of confronting anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial” among its students. From what we understand this is one school in the UK – one single incident. No, it’s not all UK schools. Just the one, but an example worth studying. How [...] Norwegian universities are in general eager for international recognition. Yet the particular kind of foreign attention rektor Torbjørn Digernes is attracting to NTNU is hardly of the desired kind. The latest comment on Rektors side (Rektor’s page) is made by Tammi Benjamin, an American university lecturer: In no other country in the civilized world has a [...] This autumn NTNU, a prestigious Norwegian university, is offering a series of seminars on Israel. The seminars have attracted widespread criticism for being imbalanced, and it has been claimed that the sole purpose of the seminars is to set the stage for a push for academic boycott in 2010. Two of the mainstream channels to have [...] Aslak Nore is a young Nowegian journalist who just will not stop rocking the boat. He now appears to have picked up a cue from Melanie Phillips’ (author of Londonistan) and is now publishing a book in which he claims that Norway will become more extreme – we will both get more true excellence and [...] Norway supports the Palestinian people (pr.capita) more than any other people on earth. Yet this support appears to be completely unrelated to the actual behavior of the regimes of Hamas and Fatah. Blatant racism and incitement to murder goes virtually unnoticed by the red-green coalition government, although it has been questioned by the opposition (Progress [...] Norway supports the Palestinian people (pr.capita) more than any other people on earth. For left-of-centre Norwegians with political aspirations, a tour in the Palestinian territories is almost compulsory. As for the programs on Al-Aqsa TV, the protests of the Progress and Christian Democratic parties have fallen on deaf ears – Norwegian support continues unabated. The program [...] Look through copies of Swedish Aftonbladet from the 1960’s and you will find articles lauding Pol Pot, who killed of one fourth of his own population. USA, it was believed, was ultimately to blame. Here is a excerpt from Benjamin Birbaum’s reflection on free speech in Sweden, in The New Republic:
Norway is in many ways such a splendid little country, it’s dazzling. Yet same as with any other nation, have a closer look and you will unavoidably find rats in the basement, cockroaches in the drains, skeletons in the closet and forgotten evils in dark nooks and crannies throughout the realm. The manner in which Norway [...] |
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