"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." The University of Oslo simply said "no" without offering an excuse. That led one journalist to wonde

uthor of "The Israel Lobby," came to Norway, he was immediately invited to present a lecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Likewise with llan Pappe, a demonizer of Israel who teaches at Oxford. My hosts expected, therefore, that their offer to have me present a different

ut in practice it exists. Jewish pro-Israel speakers are subject to a de facto boycott. The first boycott signatory was Trond Adresen, a professor at Trondheim. About Jews, he has written: "There is something immensely self-satisfied and self-centered at the tribal mentality that is so prevalent among Jews.