Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz | 22 April 2004 Education Minister Limor Livnat is boycotting Ben-Gurion University of the Negev so long as it continues to employ political sociologist Prof. Lev Grinberg, she has told BGU President Prof. Avishai Braverman. Following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Grinberg wrote in an article that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilil Shahar | Maariv | 7 April 2004 In an article published in a Belgian newspaper, Dr. Lev Greenberg of Ben-Gurion University labels Israel’s actions “criminal” and calls on the world to stop Sharon immediately. “The murder of Sheikh Yassin is part of an Israeli policy that can be described as symbolic genocide”. This

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Collins Piper The Israeli lobby has launched an all-out drive to ensure congressional passage of a bill (approved by the House and now before a Senate committee) that would set up a virtual federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses. Ten months ago the New York-based Jewish

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 11 March 2004 Academics at Birmingham University have condemned moves by the university authorities to ban 300 of their personal websites. The university’s decision to stop hosting staff websites on university computers follows a series of controversies over links to allegedly anti-semitic content. As at many other universities,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anders Strindberg | The American Conservative | 2 February 2004 Congress threatens to cut off funding to collegiate Mideast Studies departments that refuse to toe the neocon line. Universities are no strangers to disagreement and debate. In fact, the process of argumentation has always been an important way for academics to sharpen theories and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Dobbs | Washington Post | 13 January 2004 When Rashid Khalidi took over the newly established Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University last fall, the appointment was generally viewed as an academic coup for the school, which had succeeded in wooing away a prominent Middle East expert from the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Laurie King-Irani | In These Times | 11 December 2003 Already-strapped institutions of higher learning are facing an ideologically driven effort to limit funding for the study of cultures outside the United States. For nearly four decades, American universities have benefited from the U.S. Department of Education programs funded under Title VI of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tim Adams | The Observer | 30 November 2003 He’s ‘The Elvis Of Academia’ and ‘The Devil’s Accountant’. A relentless thorn in America’s side, Noam Chomsky has spent 50 years bringing his country’s elite to account. Here, he talks to Tim Adams about genocide and genitalia. On the railings outside my local train station

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stanley Fish | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 26 November 2003 How will academe’s leaders respond to the assault under way on its autonomy and professional integrity? Stanley Fish asks. Two columns ago, I analyzed “The College Cost Crisis,” a report written (or at least signed) by U.S. Reps. John A. Boehner, an

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michelle Goldberg | Salon | 6 November 2003 Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they’ve enlisted Congress in their crusade. On Oct. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that could require university international studies departments to show more support for American foreign policy or