Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) N. R. KLEINFIELD | The New York Times | 18 January 2005 As students resume classes at Columbia University today after their winter break, they will face the telltale summonses of college life: Go to class, surf the Internet, sleep, pursue romance, sleep. And a new one: Testify about the alleged misconduct of their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jennifer Senior | New York Metro | 17 January 2005 A new documentary accusing Arab professors of intimidating Jewish students has touched off a fierce war—of words—on the Upper West Side. Where does free speech end and bullying begin? Of all the political documentaries that have ignited controversy in the past year,Columbia Unbecoming is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stevenson Swanson | Chicago Tribune | 1 January 2005 NEW YORK — The Upper West Side of Manhattan may be half a world away from the Middle East, but a bitter war of words has turned the narrow campus of Columbia University into a miniature Gaza Strip, riven by divisions between supporters of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ATARAH HABER | The Jerusalem Post | 7 December 2004 An international conference entitled “Resisting Israeli Apartheid,” held at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London on Sunday, was predictably nothing more than a “one-sided rant against Israel,” Gavin Gross, chairman of the SOAS Jewish Society told The Jerusalem

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liz Fink | Columbia Spectator | 8 December 2004 Press Conference Yesterday Offered First Highly Visible Student Response to Attacks in Columbia Unbecoming One month after the controversial release of Columbia Unbecoming, pro-Israel students aren’t the only ones claiming they are being harassed and intimidated. A group of approximately 50 students, faculty, community members,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bill Bishop | Juan Cole Website | 4 December 2004 Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card. They had accused Card of being anti-semitic (i.e. a racist) and of being a leftwing extremist. Pipes has a history of levelling wild charges against

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oliver Kamm | The Times Online | 4 December 2004 ALL SCHOLARLY disciplines have jargon. Specialist terms are mocked by populists, but they can be a useful shorthand. They are not a target of this series on buzzwords. Deliberate obscurity cultivated for the appearance of profundity is another matter. The attractions of obscurity are

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | 24 November 2004 ADC expresses its deep concern over increased attempts to silence free speech and academic freedom at Columbia University. Professor Joseph Massad, an untenured junior faculty member in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) has been the target of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ADC Press Release (Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Commitee) | Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | 26 September 2002 WASHINGTON, DC – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) expressed deep concerns over emerging efforts designed to chill any criticism of Israel in American colleges and universities by labeling it as “anti-Semitism.” In particular ADC cited a new website for monitoring

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Ha’aretz | 26 November 2004 NEW YORK – Columbia University president Lee Bollinger plans “specific steps” soon in response to allegations that professors and lecturers at the Ivy League university made vitriolic and malicious comments against Israel in classes. Bollinger made the pledge in a Wednesday phone call to Anti-Defamation League