Month: November 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Emma Clancy | International News, Green Left Weekly issue #719 | 27 July 2007 The campaign to isolate Israel through boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) has taken meaningful steps forward in the past few months, with major trade unions in Britain, Ireland, South Africa and Canada declaring their support for an international boycott. The

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Bisharat | San Francisco Chronicle | 15 August 2007 That question is raised by an expanding academic, cultural and economic boycott of Israel. The movement joins churches, unions, professional societies and other groups based in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa. It has elicited dramatic reactions from Israel’s supporters. U.S. labor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Margaret Aziza Pappano | Electronic Intifada | 25 July 2007 In the last few weeks, university presidents across the US and Canada have rushed to issue statements about the proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the British University and College Union. They view this boycott as a serious violation of academic freedom. Yet,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Colin Green | The Guardian | 11 June 2007 Just as I campaigned for boycotts against apartheid in South Africa many years ago, now I shall do so against Israeli apartheid, says Colin Green The strong and hostile response from pro-Israeli groups, as well as the UK government fearful of offending Israel, to a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Melanie Newman and Nathan Jeffay | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 June 2007 The UCU vote for a possible boycott of Israel divides academe. Melanie Newman and Nathan Jeffay report. Concerns are growing at home and abroad that supporters of a boycott have let the genie out of the bottle. It is feared

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Schmuel Rosner | Haaretz | 8 June 2007 The British boycott exposed yet again the extent to which Israel depends on the help of the American Jewish community. But if American Jews react, what will the Brits say? How to react to the so-called British boycott against Israel? This is a question asked by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg and Rory McCarthy | The Guardian | 9 June 2007 British academics’ desire to boycott Israeli universities this week provoked the threat of legal action and counter-boycotts. Will it produce a fully-fledged international crisis? As the pop group Girls Aloud ran through a sound check on the other side of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Assaf Uni and Haim Bior, Haaretz Correspondents | Haaretz | 1 June 2007 BRITAIN – The United Kingdom’s public services union UNISON will consider a proposal for imposing a boycott on Israel during its annual conference in mid-June, in the wake of Wednesday’s decision by a British lecturers union to back a boycott of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 8 June 2007 The foreign and education ministers are setting up a public relations task force to prepare a public relations campaign against the boycotts of Israel being forged in the United Kingdom. The joint task force will consist of representatives of the two ministries, the Histadrut

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steven Rose | The Independent | 4 June 2007 Academic freedom, it appears, applies to Israelis but not to Palestinians The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and