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

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