I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened.More at the link above. Norway's university professor attack not Israel, but "the Jews," who are alleged to be just like "the Germans around 1938."Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to have me lecture without any charge to the three major universities. Norwegian universities generally jump at any opportunity to invite lecturers from elsewhere. When my Harvard colleague Stephen Walt, co-author of "The Israel Lobby," came to Norway, he was immediately invited to present a lecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Likewise with Ilan Pappe, a demonizer of Israel who teaches at Oxford.
My hosts expected, therefore, that their offer to have me present a different academic perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be eagerly accepted. I have written half a dozen books on the subject presenting a centrist view in support of the two-state solution. But the universities refused.
The dean of the law faculty at Bergen University said he would be "honored" to have me present a lecture "on the O.J. Simpson case," as long as I was willing to promise not to mention Israel. An administrator at the Trondheim school said that Israel was too "controversial."
The University of Oslo simply said "no" without offering an excuse. That led one journalist to wonder whether the Norwegian universities believe that I am "not entirely house-trained."
Only once before have I been prevented from lecturing at universities in a country. The other country was Apartheid South Africa.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Anti-Semitism in Norway
From Alan Dershowitz, at Wall Street Journal, "Norway to Jews: You're Not Welcome Here: Anti-Semitism Doesn't Even Mask Itself as Anti-Zionism":
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I think the Norwegians should stop their hypocrisy of calling for only partial boycotts of Israel. They should boycott everything and anything made or invented by Jews. No more Wassermann tests for syphilis, stand behind your "principals" and die of syphilis. No more insulin, and die of diabetes, no more digitalis and die of heart disease. No more Salk vaccine and die of polio. No more chemotherapy and die of cancer. No more sterile hospitals and die of infection. The list is endless. By the way no more cell phones, that Jewish too. Just buy Muslim. That means oil at inflated prices and of course import terrorism and intolerance and give up democracy. After all Israel is a democracy.
The Norwegian and all the self righteous Liberals are hypocrites. In truth, they hate everything that the Palestinians stand for but hate Jews even more. Shame on them
I think the Norwegians should stop their hypocrisy of calling for only partial boycotts of Israel. They should boycott everything and anything made or invented by Jews. No more Wassermann tests for syphilis, stand behind your "principals" and die of syphilis. No more insulin, and die of diabetes, no more digitalis and die of heart disease. No more Salk vaccine and die of polio. No more chemotherapy and die of cancer. No more sterile hospitals and die of infection. The list is endless. By the way no ore cell phones, that Jewish too. Just buy Muslim. That means oil at inflated prices.And of course import terrorism and intolerance and give up democracy. After all Israel is a democracy.
The Norwegian and all the self rightous Liberals and only hypocrites. They in truth hate everything that the Palestinians stand for nut hate Jews even more. Shame on them
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