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Wikileaks: US raised academic boycott with Norwegian government
Maureen Clare Murphy’s article at the Electronic Intifada, below, reveals that recent Wikileaks releases indicate that the US government officially raised opposition to Norwegian academic boycott advocacy on Norwegian campuses. Cables released this week by Wikileaks show that the US government raised with the Government of Norway concern over a motion to boycott Israeli academic […]
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Norway university plans Israel boycott
Rector at University of Bergen says he supports boycott; some lecturers complain to Israeli embassy Yaheli Moran Zelikovich University of Bergen, among Norway’s largest academic institutions, intends to impose an official academic boycott against Israel over what it claims is its apartheid-like conduct, Ynet has learned. The university’s management has not yet officially responded to […]
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Norwegian academic backs debate on boycott of Israel universities
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The rector of a leading Norwegian university on Wednesday told Haaretz his institution would support and sponsor a “positive” debate on boycotting Israel. A leading anti-boycott activist said he was in favor of this, but only if the debate was “balanced.” “It is an important feature of academic freedom that […]
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No Motion in Norway’s Academic Ocean: they didn’t even flip through the boycott motion text
By Mary Rizzo “¢ Nov 15th, 2009 Last week might have been a week when history was made. There would have been a precedent set that would from that point onwards made a change in very many ways, one comparable to fulfilling the request the ANC made in South Africa. At first, the ANC request […]
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Palestinian Students Open Letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University
We are Arab students at the Israeli universities writing to you in support of the proposed academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We believe that the boycott is timely and hopefully will help in upholding moral values of fairness, justice and equality which have been sorely missed in our region. While the reason for the […]
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Norwegian minister: Academic boycott of Israel would be illegal
Last update – 03:29 10/11/2009 By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The University of Trondheim would be in violation of legal principles if its board members vote on Thursday to boycott Israel, Norway’s minister for higher education, Tora Aasland warned on Monday in a television broadcast. If the vote is passes, it would make the Trondheim-based […]
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A Plea to Norway’s University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel
To: University of Trondheim, Norway “Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.” –Famed British Historian Professor Arnold Toynbee “In the name […]
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Open Letter to the Board of Governors of Trondheim University: Boycott the Israeli Academy Now!
Occupied Ramallah 3 November 2009 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) applauds faculty members at the University of Trondheim and University College of Sí¸r-Trí¸ndelag in Norway for their principled support for the cause of justice in Palestine by proposing a motion to boycott Israeli universities. This is a historic […]
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A Plea to Norway’s University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel
By Mohamed Khodr “¢ Nov 3rd, 2009 at 15:44 Norway “Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.” –Famed British Historian Professor […]
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Norway university to vote next month on boycott of Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board votes in favor of the move at a meeting on the subject next month. Three days prior to the November 12 vote by […]
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