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Foros de Noticias on NTNU

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:48:57 +0000

Someone in the Spanish speaking world has picked up on the seminar-series at NTNU. From Foros de Noticias.

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (Universidad de Ciencia y Tecnología de Noruega) ha hecho un llamamiento al boicot académico a Israel. Bjørn K. Alsberg, académico de la citada Universidad, ha dado a conocer su parecer:

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Dignernes’ blog down after SPME article

admin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:00:06 +0000

The SPME has publised Manfred Gerstenfeld’s article – NTNU, a Norwegian Hate University – which was originally published in Hebrew in the weekly Makor Rishon.

Scholars for Peace of the Middle East, which opposes academic boycotts has already informed the 30 000 academics on its worldwide mailing list about NTNU’s abuse of values of what a [...]

NTNU student to dean: “We will not give in”

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:51:05 +0000

On his blog, Dean Torbjørn Digernes at NTNU “salutes” the organizing committee behind the NTNU seminars on Israel and remains convinced that the seminars-series is a “praiseworthy initiative”. Students, staff and ordinary citizens are less convinced. The latest comment to Mr.Digernes’ blog is another protest – unauthorized translation below:

Dear Dean. It is saddening to see my university [...]

Criticism builds against unbalanced NTNU seminars

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:09:36 +0000

Criticism is building against the Israel-seminars which are hosted at NTNU this autumn. As critics point out both the programme-committee behind the seminars and the speakers are well-known Israel-critics, and it is suspected that this will be reflected in the seminars. Furthermore there is reason to believe that the seminars are intended to gather support for the call for [...]

Christian Democrats: “Horrible of Hamas to deny the Holocaust”

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:08:12 +0000

The red-green government has been a staunch supporter of the PA, Hamas and the UNRWA. Yet when it is revealed that Hamas rejects tuition on the Holocaust in Gaza-schools, the red-green government is silent. Perhaps Norwegians should take the criticism from Sri Lanka to heart – perhaps Solheim the Silent is indeed a fitting nickname [...]

Progress Party speaks out against Hamas’ racism

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:59:11 +0000

Two days ago Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne wrote about how Hamas rejects Holocaust-education in Gaza-schools. Seeing as how Norway not only heads the ITF this year but also is one of the PA’s, Hamas’ and UNRWA’s greatest sponsors, one would expect the government to react. Alas, the red-green coalition government has so far not [...]

Norway: election opinion polls show gov on defensive

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:02:34 +0000

Here is the latest opinion polls. Roughly broken down the “Reds” – left of centre parties – are in favour of the “right of return” and such. The “Blues” – right of centre parties – understand how “the right of return” is unacceptable to the people of Israel as an influx of five million Palestinians [...]

Reader query: Will donations to Palestinian organizations be scrutinized too?

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:15:00 +0000

A reader asks whether donations to Palestinian organization, like those to Israeli organizations, will be subjected to the same level of scrutiny (As we have posted on the Socialst Left wants to end tax exemptions for donations to Israeli organizations operating on the West Bank). This is a highly relevant topic. Norway is a major [...]

Dagen: Sweden condemned in Israel

admin — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:36:17 +0000

The scandal over Boström’s article has so far not caused much of a ruckus in Norway. One of newspapers that has picked up on the story is DagenMagazinet. Here is an article from August 22nd, by Odd Sverre Hove. Unauthorized translation below:

An Israeli newspaper by the name of Jisrael Hajom wrote yesterday that one in [...]

Norway and Israel – trade increases in spite of threats of boycott

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:02:09 +0000

In some circles there is a conspicious amount of talk about how important it is to boycott, out of all nations on earth, precisely Israel (see Boycott-category). Indeed on May 1st, Israel was the only country to be singled out for criticism by powerful LO (trade union conferderacy) leader Roar Flåthen. It is therefore interesting [...]

“Free Shalit” 4000 christians call at pro-Israel rally

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:08:38 +0000

Between 3500 and 4000 christians rallied in support of Israel on Sunday. The excerpt below is from the Global News Service of the Jewish People.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally in Norway called for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

More than 4,000 Christian supporters of Israel participated in Sunday’s rally, which is being [...]

Huge gathering in support of Israel

admin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:34:27 +0000

In Norway you miss out on a lot if you don’t read DagenMagazinet, a christian daily roughly on the same size as Klassekampen (Class War), a communist daily. Here is an unauthorized translation of an article covering a huge pro-Israel rally held last Sunday, by journalist Bjørn Arild Hatlem. Now 3 500 may not sound [...]