A prominent university in Norway, the University of Bergen, is engaged in efforts to launch its anti-Israel boycott, protesting Israel’s “apartheid-like conditions”.
Rector, Signumd Gronmo took part in a forum last week seeking to enlist additional support for the academic boycott, quoted as saying that at present, the university does not maintain any ties with Israel. He called on university staff to support the move. That said, university officials are indicating the school has not yet announced its position on the proposed boycott. There are a small number of lecturers who are reportedly opposed, and they filed a complaint with Israel’s embassy.
The university, among the largest in Norway, is home to 14,500 students and over 3,000 staff members.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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I assume this means that none of the students or staff at this place use SMS text messaging or any computers with Intel chips both of which were developed (and probably manufactured) in Israel.
And the antisemites have put up comments on some blogs in recent months, claiming that Norweigens are not antisemitic, that the very idea of anyone from Norway being antisemnitic is rediculous.
At least one poster on youtube is using this ‘Boycott Israel’ logo.
He calls himself; Zoghater
I am a Jew from an Israeli background, currently living in Norway. This is the first country out of a number of others, in which I have lived, where I feel I have been forced into cultural and religious silence. Living here, made me realise enough, to conclude that Norway’s past treatment of Jews and the more recent treatment of Israel, continues to be a disgrace. Anti-semitism, racism, anti-Israeli sentiments are a growing problem and must be stopped. While there are still some people in Norway who respect the Jewish people and Israel, their number is unjustifiably reducing. Norway seems to be reversing to those dark times when its constitution prohibited the entry of Jews and when its leaders cooperated with the Nazis. Shooting at the Oslo synagogue, publishing anti-semitic material, making jokes about the holocaust and calling for boycottes against Israel, have become more recent concerns. This is not to mention, that since Norway is behind Israel in various academic fields, the loss will be that of the Norwegians.
How does this diploma mill compare to a real university like Bar-Ilan?