Alan Dershowitz in WSJ earlier this year:
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.”
Only once before have I been prevented from lecturing at universities in a country. The other country was Apartheid South Africa.
Consider former Prime Minister Kare Willock’s reaction to President Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as his first chief of staff: “It does not look too promising, he has chosen a chief of staff who is Jewish.” Mr. Willock didn’t know anything about Mr. Emanuel’s views—he based his criticism on the sole fact that Mr. Emanuel is a Jew.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, fewer than 1,000 Jews live in Norway today.
