Month: November 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 June 2007 The growing boycott movement has put Israeli academe on the defensive, but more is required, says Lisa Taraki On the day that UK academics debated motions to boycott Israel the international media reported on a letter addressed to the Israeli defence minister. It

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Benny Tziper | Haaretz | 4 June 2007 [Translated from original Hebrew by Rann Bar-On.] Last Friday morning I drove to the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Bil’in, the village that has turned into a symbol of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and against the confiscation of Palestinian land by fraudulent Jewish real-estate sharks

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amjad Barham | The Guardian | 24 May 2007 Israeli academics are not standing up for their Palestinian counterparts, and a boycott is the best way forward, says Amjad Barham Recently, Israeli academics have toured the UK to dissuade British academics from supporting a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. The Israelis have made two

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Meikle | The Guardian | 31 May 2007 University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities. Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union in Bournemouth voted by 158 to 99 for “a comprehensive and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | 30 May 2007 For Immediate Release: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the historic decision by the University and College Union (UCU) Congress today to support motions that endorse the logic of academic boycott against Israel, in response to the complicity of the Israeli academy

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Chalcraft | The Guardian | 30 May 2007 An international, non-violent movement supporting divestment, sanctions and boycott of Israel is gathering strength. While progress has been made in Northern Ireland and South Africa, Israel continues to settle and occupy Palestinian land in defiance of international law. The question for British academics is whether

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 29 May 2007 Academics are being urged to reject calls from colleagues for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The University and Colleges Union is debating a motion that academics should consider the “moral implications” of links with Israeli universities. The proposal condemns Israel for its “denial of educational rights” for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Halle | Haaretz | 17 May 2007 Prof. Miriam Shlesinger, the translation scholar from Bar-Ilan University who was fired from the board of a British journal for being Israeli, sees herself as one of the lucky ones. “At least I had the luxury of knowing why I was being boycotted,” she says, recalling

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Halle | Haaretz | 4 May 2007 A delegation of Israeli academics will head to the U.K. later this month in a bid to fight a proposed boycott of Israeli universities by British academics. Seven academics from six Israeli universities plan to meet with members of the 120,000-strong union ahead of its vote

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Bowen | Haaretz | 13 April 2007 In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of large landholders, including the Sursuq family from Beirut, which acquired large tracts in northern Palestine. A similar situation had long existed in Ireland, where most land was controlled by absentee landlords, many