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NTNU conference: Israel, Clandestine Diplomacy and the Modern Middle East

by admin • May 4, 2011 • 10 Comments

The city of Trondheim is a pro-Palestinian powerhouse. In 2009 Trondheim’s most prestigious university NTNU hosted a massive campaign aimed at fostering support for a boycott Israel initiative. Now NTNU is offering a conference on Israel – again. Last time…

by Frank • April 5, 2011 • 1 Comment

Associate professor Trond Andresens response to being criticized by Alan Dershowitz (mentioned previously on this site) was published on Aftenpostens website, serendipitously, on April 1st. Yesterday it appeared in print as well. We might take this opportunity to meditate on Andresens…

by admin • March 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

According to legend, Olav Thon came to Oslo with two empty hands and three rabbit pelts in his cap-sack. Today he is one of the most successful businessmen in the nation. He believes the universities have acted shamefully in rejecting…

by admin • March 24, 2011 • 1 Comment

If you ever go near NTNU, make sure you do not have anything to do with the university newspaper. Unless you are voicing the Palestinian narrative of course, in which case you had better call them straight away. Here is…

by admin • March 24, 2011 • 4 Comments

Prestigious NTNU in Trondheim was only to happy to receive what Haaretz called “an all star team of Israel-haters” in 2009. The university is less keen on listening to the pro-Israel narrative: When Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz offered free lectures…

by admin • March 23, 2011 • 0 Comments

While Norwegian universities have received Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein with open arms and promised a permanent position to Mordechai Vanunu, they have turned down Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz’ offer of free lectures. Students have now taken the matters…

by admin • February 14, 2011 • 0 Comments

NRK today reports that according to Michal Rachel Suissa, leader of Center against anti-Semitism, parts of prestigious NTNU are infested with anti-Semitism. Excerpt: Michal Rachel Suissa leads the Center against anti-Semitism in Norway. She believes part of the explanation behind…

by admin • January 27, 2011 • 0 Comments

Mark Twain observed that the past does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. These days, the rhyme in Trondheim is a nasty one. Two recent letters to the weekly Morgenbladet tell of Jews being harassed in Trondheim, one for…

by admin • January 22, 2011 • 12 Comments

In last week’s edition of Morgenbladet, a man wrote of how he upon visiting a cafe in Trondheim was slapped for the sin of refusing to be ashamed of having relatives in Israel. In this week’s issue, a Norwegian Jew…

by admin • January 14, 2011 • 4 Comments

Op-ed in Morgenbladet: A psychology student writes of how he tells a stranger that he has Israeli relatives, whereupon the stranger launches into a pro-Hamas harangue and slaps him. The op-ed is online in Morgenbladet. The psychology student tells of…

by admin • July 22, 2010 • 0 Comments

NTNU is one of the most prestigous universities in Norway. It is also home to a handful of academics who are extraordinarily keen on assigning blame to the USA and Israel. As for the interviewer above, Kim Dino Saur, this…

by admin • June 15, 2010 • 0 Comments

The screenshot above is of an article in Aftenposten on June 12th, on how Marjam Salvesen Bhatti, wife of synagogue-shooter Arfan Bhatti, lauds female suicide bombers on Facebook. The factbox to the right provides a rough outline of the concept…

by admin • December 14, 2009 • 0 Comments

If anyone has failed to grasp it by now, this site is less about Israel and Jews than it is about us Norwegians. How is it that so many of us are so obsessed with exactly Israel? And is it…

by admin • December 5, 2009 • 0 Comments

Norwegian business tycoon Olav Thon has decided that due to the politicizing of NTNU he will no longer finance a professorate at that institution. From Vårt Land, which refers to today’s paper edition of Aftenposten: The board resolved on November…

by admin • December 5, 2009 • 0 Comments

NTNU rector Digernes’ letter above, from Aftenposten on December 5th, is written in reply to Dr.Gerstenfeld’s op-ed of November 28th, which was written in response to Aftenposten’s editorial of November 22nd, which slammed the seminar in Jerusalem on Anti-Israelism and…

by admin • December 2, 2009 • 0 Comments

One would think that after all that has happened, NTNU’s newspaper Universitetsavisa would be scrutinizing the political influences at work at the university. After all the would-be-boycotters had enough pull not only to organize and finance a comprehensive and biased…

by admin • November 26, 2009 • 0 Comments

When Israeli historian Benny Morris visited Norway in June, there were no journalists present at the seminar and he received only a single mention in the newspapers (DagenMagazinet). At the time, this site wagered one bottle of Upper Ten (A…

by admin • November 18, 2009 • 0 Comments

The controversial NTNU seminar series on Israel is proceeding according to plan and the next speaker up is Mr.Ilan Pappe, who will take the floor this friday. Here is how NTNU presents him: Professor Ilan Pappé is one of the world’s…

by admin • November 17, 2009 • 0 Comments

Indonesia is huge enough to boom and bust at the same time yet hardly figures in Norwegian consciousness. In contrast Israel is an extremely small strip of land which a conspicuous large number of Norwegians are passionately interested in. The…

by admin • November 13, 2009 • 0 Comments

The French has a sizeable Jewish community. As opposed to Norway. For historical reasons, perhaps. Below, you find an exerpt from Union des Patrones et des Professionels de France (UPJF). Before reading it, imagine how Akersgata – Norway’s Fleet Street…

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