Norway drops case against professor who called October 7 'most beautiful thing this century'

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Norwegian police have dismissed a complaint against a university professor who called the October 7 massacre “the most beautiful thing that has happened in our century,” The Jerusalem Post has learned on Thursday.

The Post previously reported on the incident in May 2026, when Bassam Hussein, a project management professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, made the comments during an April 21 lecture organized by the Socialist Forum.

At the time, Vikas Thakur, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at NTNU, told the Post that NTNU was not responsible for the event, as it was held at a venue outside the university campus.

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Anti-antisemitism activist group StoppNRK then lodged a complaint against Husseein with Norwegian police. On Thursday, Investigator Arild Hansen and Prosecutor Sunniva Tronvoll notified StoppNRK that the case has been dismissed because "the reported conduct is not considered a criminal offense."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-902038

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1. Never again is now.

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2. There is a misconception that the Nordic countries have always had a positive relationship with Jews.

I have visited Norway and will be the first to say that it is a magnificently beautiful country.

It also has a sorry history when it comes to Jews. From the 1814 law banning Jews from immigration (later repealed) to the fascist puppet government of Vidkun Quisling and the rounding up of Norwegian Jews for deportation to Nazi concentration camps, Norway’s relationship with its own Jewish citizens hasn’t been anything to write home about. Today in Norway there is plenty of the 21st century version of far left and far right Jew hatred, along with the typical inept inaction from the government.