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Norwegian official: Schools considering Israel boycott
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tags: Academic boycott of Israel 

A Norwegian university's controversial vote on boycotting Israel is part
of a nationwide campaign that may bring additional boycott votes at other
Norwegian universities, said a representative on the board of executives at the University of Tromso.
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Hundreds of scholars from Israel and elsewhere have signed a petition
condemning the vote at the University of Trondheim, scheduled for November 12.

If the initiative passes, Trondheim, also known as the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), could become the first Western university to boycott Israel.

A representative of the executive board at the University of Tromso said
pro-Palestinian activists are trying to call a vote on boycotting Israel there as well.

"A group of people have petitioned the board to hold a vote on this in the coming weeks, but no decision has been made yet," said the board
representative, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He added there was "a national effort" to have Norwegian universities boycott Israel, and that the Norwegian boycott proponents were acting in unison with their American and British peers.

The petition condemning the Trondheim boycott initiative bears the signatures of more than 900 scholars, including Nobel laureates. It states that they "refute and condemn the campaign to boycott Israeli academics" and academic institutions.

"We stand in solidarity with Israeli academics and academic institutions; if you boycott them, boycott us as well," states the petition, co-signed by Nobel laureates Kenneth J. Arrow from Stanford University, Aaron Ciechanover from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Ecole Normale Superieure.

Parliamentarian Hans Olav Syversen from the Christian Democrat Party said NTNU was "turning itself into a laughingstock" by holding the vote. An NTNU spokesman said that the institution will hold the vote, but that the exact agenda for the vote has not been set yet.


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