Safe haven for all students?

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 September 2003 Polly Curtis visits Manchester, scene of Israel-Palestine rows last year In the Reynold Building at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, freshers’ fair is thronging. The music is ear-bleedingly loud, the salsa society is in full swing and the Tai Kwon Do

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A not so academic controversy

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charles Hoover | Ha’aretz | 26 September 2003 International Academic Friends of Israel, fighting a boycott on local universities, names director for new Jerusalem office. “It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face,” says David Leshnick to characterize attempts in the international scientific community to boycott Israel in the wake of the

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The Academic Boycott of South Africa: Symbolic Gesture or Effective Agent of Change?

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) F. W. Lancaster (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) and Lorraine Haricombe (Northern Illinois University) | Perspectives on the Profession (Periodical of the Centre for the Study of Ethics for the Profession), Illinois Institute of Technology  From the early 1960s until very recently, scholars in South Africa were subjected to various forms of boycott

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Oxford Investigating Professor Who Rejected an Israeli Student

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Richard Allen Greene | JTA — The Global Jewish News Service | 7 July 2003 LONDON, July 8 (JTA) — An Oxford University professor could be fired after rejecting a graduate student because he is Israeli. Andrew Wilkie, a professor of pathology, dismissed an application from Amit Duvshani to work in his laboratory in

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Oxford don rejects student because he is from Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Oliver | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 An Oxford University professor is facing disciplinary action after rejecting an Israeli student’s application to work with him because he had a “huge problem” with his country’s “abuses on the Palestinians”, it emerged yesterday. Andrew Wilkie, who was last month elected Nuffield professor of pathology,

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Outrage as Oxford bans student for being Israeli

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Julie Henry, Education Correspondent | Daily Telegraph | 29 June 2003 An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his nationality. Andrew Wilkie, the Nuffield professor of pathology and a fellow of Pembroke College, is under investigation after telling Amit Duvshani, a student

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EU-Israel pact fails to silence dissent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Caroline Davis | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 June 2003 Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel’s membership of the European Union’s biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer’s boycott row said this week. The European Commission confirmed this week that it had renewed its

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Academic campaigner backs Oxford's Israeli rejection

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 A leading campaigner for academic freedom today offered his support to the Oxford don at the centre of a new row over a boycott of Israel. Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University, is facing possible disciplinary action after refusing to consider an

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