Month: January 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 30 March 2004 Israel’s academic leaders should take a public stand against their government’s violations of academic freedom at Palestinian universities in the occupied territories, say more than 300 signatories to an open letter that has been published online. But the man to whom the letter

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Counterpunch | 10 May 2002 The recent proposals to impose sanctions on the Israeli academy have caused a great deal of controversy in the US, in Europe to some extent, and of course within Israel itself. Some have argued that collective boycotts are often the first sign of fascist and anti-liberal

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 25 March 2004 Leading advocates of an academic boycott of Israel have stepped up their campaign calling for an “outing” of Israeli universities which support their government’s policy on the occupied territories. Nearly 300 academics from around the world have published an open letter calling for leaders of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Ha’aretz Daily | 11 January 2004 Perhaps, after all, the world will save Israel from itself. Perhaps Israel’s real friends will increase the pressure on the government. Perhaps they will understand that, even in Israel, external pressure is not always bad, because it may be the last chance to bring Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helena Flusfeder, Jerusalem | Times Higher Education Supplement | 5 December 2003 Israeli academics are to set up a forum to fight the international academic boycott of Israeli institutions, the heads of the country’s universities decided this week at a meeting with Natan Scharansky, minister for diaspora affairs. Hebrew University president Menachem Magidor suggested

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRMEP) | IRMEP | 30 June 2003 The U.S. share of world merchandise exports to the Arab Middle East slid from 18% in 1997 to 13% in 2001. This occurred during import demand growth averaging 1% per year and voracious demand for high value-added capital goods among Arab

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Jerusalem | The Guardian | 1 December 2003 Israeli academics are threatening to call for an international boycott of their own university heads if admission tests alleged to have curbed the number of Arab students are reintroduced. The heads of the country’s five universities last week announced that they would bring

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 27 November 2003 Israeli academics will set up a new forum to fight the international academic boycott of Israel, the heads of the country’s universities decided at a meeting Thursday with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky. At the meeting, the university presidents warned that the boycott,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sara Leibovich-Dar | Ha’aretz | 20 November 2003 Although they have tried to downplay it, Israeli universities and faculty members are growing increasingly concerned that the worldwide academic boycott will weaken both Israeli science and the peace camp itself. Ten years ago, Dr. Miriam Shlesinger, the current head of the Department of Translation and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alex Sholem | Totally Jewish | 16 October 2003 A British website that barred Israelis from entering one of its competitions has been forced to issue a retraction after receiving a deluge of complaints. In a giveaway running this month, ukhotmovies.com invited visitors to compete to win the top prize of a DVD box