Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lucy Proctor | Sudent Direct | 30 September 2002 UMIST has launched an enquiry into the actions of lecturer Mona Baker following her decision over the summer to dismiss two Israeli academics from her translations journal. The action was taken after the lecturer re-ignited the Palestine-Israel rift by axing writers Miriam Schlesinger and Gideon

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Sacker | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 As Jewish students at Manchester, our initial concern is to where such actions will lead, and what effect they will have on Jewish students not only on the UMIST campus, but across all four Manchester campuses as well as nationally. Will the pursuit of lecturers

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris West and Daniel Sacker | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 Professor Mona Baker, a UMIST academic, made headlines over the summer when she fired Dr Miriam Schlesinger and Professor Gideon Toury, two Israeli academics on the editorial boards of two linguistics journals she edited, citing as her reason a worldwide petition criticising

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 24 September 2002   The shockwaves of 9-11 have had a chilling effect on civil liberties in the form of the Patriot Act and the repressive measures taken by a plethora of government agencies. One must add to this the fallout from the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Youmans | Counterpunch | 23 September 2002 A Philadelphia-based pro-Israeli organization with the seemingly innocuous name, the Middle East Forum, began a website to monitor US college campuses for academic pro-Palestinian bias and happenings. Campus- Watch (http://www.campus-watch.org) publishes dossiers on professors, as well as some examples of their writings. It describes itself as

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Geoffrey Alderman | The Guardian | 22 July 2002 The demand by some British academics for a “boycott” of Israel is significant mainly for what it tells us about the prejudices and short-sightedness of the boycotters. As “gesture” politics I admit it has a certain interest, and it will undoubtedly provide material for scholarly

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Caroline Davis | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 19 July 2002 The sacking of two Israeli scholars from the boards of journals as part of an academic boycott highlights the question of whether such actions work and whether they do more harm than good. Caroline Davis reports. The organisers of the 1986 World

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rod Liddle | The Guardian | 17 July 2002 A young British lecturer working at the University of Tel Aviv decided he would like to take a post back home, in the United Kingdom. However, the head of the first university department to which he applied told him, charmingly: “No, we don’t accept any