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The second Norwegian University is considering a boycott Academic Israel

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim (central west), second in the country will vote soon on a possible academic boycott of Israel, said here at the university Tuesday.
Management will review the November 12 open letter about thirty scholars who advocate the suspension of academic and cultural cooperation with Israel until a guarantee it will put an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. "
"(...) We believe it is time that academic institutions contribute to international pressure against Israel so that real negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian democratic authorities and the international community can begin," according to this text.
"The Israeli universities and other institutions of higher education have played a key role in the politics of oppression", say the academics.
Anne Katherine Dahl, Deputy President, said that as a result of this initiative, the Board of Trustees of the university had decided to study a motion on a possible academic boycott.
"The board thought it was legitimate to consider the issue, it does not necessarily mean that abound in the direction of the signatories," said Ms. Dahl told AFP.
The Board comprises 11 members: four state representatives, four representatives, two other students and temporary employees.
Rector, Torbjoern Digernes, has meanwhile issued a negative opinion on Tuesday against the proposed boycott.
"As academics, it is our duty to encourage research into the causes of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians and ways to resolve it, "he wrote in a memo addressed to the Board of Directors.
" We are therefore dependent on the ability to cooperate with Israeli academics and hear their views on the conflict ", he notably said.
Initiative signatories follows similar campaigns launched in recent years in Great Britain and the United States, following the example of the academic boycott imposed against South Africa at the time of apartheid.

Source: LeMonde.fr (2-11-2009)