Month: December 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Nabil Kassis | Palestine Report, Volume 11 Number 43 | 27 April 2005 This week Palestine Report Online interviews Nabil Kassis, President of Birzeit University, on the boycott of two Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT). PR: Do you think the boycott initiated by the AUT is a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Spyer | Haaretz | 22 April 2005 The British Association of University Teachers (AUT) is due today to debate the question of an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The motions to be discussed single out the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University for condemnation. In all three cases, specific grievances

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) S. Leibowitz | Haaretz | 1 May 2005 As an Israeli who still lives in Israel, I support this boycott. Precisely because I love the people who live here, and preciely because I still believe in the Jewish values of freedom, justice and equality, I want to congratulate the British associaton for taking this

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TERESA WATANABE | Los Angeles Times | 30 April 2005 Proposal By United Church Of Christ Draws Protests From Jewish Community The 1.4 million-member United Church of Christ will vote this summer on whether to divest from certain U.S. companies doing business with Israel as a protest against the Jewish state’s occupation of Palestinian

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stewart Ain and Michele Chabin | The Jewish Week | 29 April 2005 Counter actions possible in wake of targeting of two Israeli universities. In an escalation of tensions between academics in England and Israel over Israeli treatment of Palestinians, the Anti-Defamation League is considering a call for a “counter boycott” of British universities

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nurit Elhanan-Peled, Translated from English by Mark Marshall | The Occupation Magazine | 28 April 2005 `The looting will start immediately after the evacuation. One will take a window. Another will take a door.` This racist and wicked statement, that was published a few days ago from the mouth of the one who stands

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Ram | Occupation Magazine | 26 April 2005  The angry responses in Israel to the decision passed by the Association of University Lecturers in Britain to boycott two Israeli universities, Bar Ilan and Haifa, because of their acquiescence with the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, have, as usual, succeeded in diverting attention

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Times Higher Education Supplement | 29 April 2005 Site Editor’s note: Kimmerling’s position is typical of the Israeli left. No conceivable atrocity can ever justify doing anything to harm the interestes of academics, and particularly Israeli academics. The Association of University Teachers voted last week to boycott two Israeli universities over

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al-Awda Wisconsin | 27 April 2005 (Madison, WI- 04/27/05) – The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has adopted a resolution that calls on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. TAUWP is a statewide local of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Haaretz | 27 April 2005 Last week the union of British university lecturers imposed an academic boycott on two Israeli universities, as a means of pressure and punishment for “Israel’s war crimes.” After a debate inside the British academy, which has gone on since the 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, a compromise was