Iran is more than bearded fundamentalists and especially Tehran boasts a solid middle class which would seeks to resolve situations in an adult manner, rather than just rant and rave. The Tehran Times, “Iran’s leading international daily“, comments on the boycott proposal at NTNU (quoting the Jerusalem Post as its source):
Alsberg also believes that, if the proposal is accepted, NTNU will have some difficult issues to face.
“It means that we have to initiate a completely new process,” he said. “You can’t really defend a position that this is something we should do only towards Israel. If I had been very critical (of Israel), I would also have to be critical towards other countries violating human rights and so on. We would have to make a new process of using boycott as a weapon.”
He said that to boycott “only Israel, of all countries, would raise some very unpleasant questions.”
Dr. Ed Beck is the president of Scholars for Peace, which is working with Alsberg and the other NTNU professors in their struggle.
“NTNU is a major Norwegian science and technology university, like the Technion or MIT, and a university of that stature engaging in an academic boycott of Israel, in a country that prides itself on its history of fighting anti-Semitism, is certainly a disappointment and a challenge,” he told the Post on Monday night.
It is interesting to note how the Tehran Times accepts the Jerusalem Post as a credible source of information. Meanwhile Harald Stanghelle, editor of Norwegian Aftenposten, has slammed the JP for being an untrustworthy rag run by the Israeli far-right.
So in a sense, Aftenposten is more critical of the Jerusalem Post than the Tehran Times.
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