NTNU boycotters ambush counterattack

From Tarjei Johannessen Vågstøl's thesis on the Palestine movement in Norway, page 27

NTNU boycotters have cleverly organized an ambush to the no-boycott-counterattack organized by many NTNU academics. In Universitetsavisa right now we see Astrid Lægreid and Jon Øivind Eriksen insisting that a boycott of Israel is the right move for NTNU to move in. We also see this letter from Peder Martin Lysestøl.

Now regarding Mr.Lysestøl it is worthwhile remembering that he has been committed to the Palestinian cause since the sixties. In the excerpt above, from Tarjei Johannessen Vågstøl’s thesis on the Norwegian Palestine movement, he speaks of how he went to Cairo in 1968 in order to “really come to terms with the conflict”. Unauthorized translation:

I spent the entire year getting to know Palestinians and other people, for Cairo was then the centrum for liberation movements from around the world. So to arrive in Cairo in 1968 for one who was young and radical, was like arriving in heaven. There you had ANC, PAC, FNLN, PLO, Al-Fatah, all lined up. So I went from office to office and meet with movements. .. (I learned) a lot about the issue, and got to know several Palestinian leaders, people at high levels who were well schooled. So that had a significant effect on me.

Yet in spite of the fact that Tarjei Johannessen Vågstøl has documented all of this, neither Norwegian academia nor Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street – acknowledges the presence of a highly organized Norwegian Palestine-lobby. When Universitetsavisa’s editor Tore Oksholen recently asked “What hit us”, concerning the conspicuously solid reaction NTNU has received so far, he hinted towards the existence of a well-organized Israel-Lobby. The Palestine-Lobby he appears to be blind for.