The University of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Zionist regime, 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 the board of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the institution will host a lecture on Zionist regime’s alleged use of anti-Semitism as a political tool.

In a letter this week to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's director for international relations, Shimon Samuels, called the seminar a new stage in Norwegian incitement to Jew-hatred and outrageously anti-Israel bigotry.

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