Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Joffe & Asaf Romirowsky | The Jerusalem Post | 19 October 2005 The problem of scholars injecting politics into their classroom and published works is an old one. But a powerful new article by Ofira Seliktar demonstrates that Israeli scholars – historians, political scientists, and others – have gone far beyond protesting against

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 12 October 2005 Publicly supporting equal rights for Palestinians alongside Israelis has always been a risky venture in the United States, as an American professor who heads the only Middle Eastern studies center at an evangelical American university is discovering these days. The Reverend Donald Wagner,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MEG LAUGHLIN | St. Petersburg Times Tampa Bay | 7 June 2005 The prosecution tries to link the former USF professor to killings in Israel; the defense says there’s no connection. TAMPA – “Israel. Murder. Tampa cell. Pure PIJ.” These were the words Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Furr repeated Monday in his opening statement

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John-Thor Dahlburg | Los Angeles Times | 7 June 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A lawyer for an ex-university professor facing charges that he supported and helped finance a terrorist group in the Middle East tore into the government’s case Monday, claiming that Sami Al-Arian was being prosecuted not for any illegal deeds but for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nicole Colson | The Socialist Worker, Page 2 | 10 June 2005 After more than two years in prison–much of it spent in solitary confinement–former University of South Florida professor and political activist Sami Al-Arian finally went on trial in Tampa, Fla., this week. There’s little chance, however, that Al-Arian will be able to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | CounterPunch | 03 June 2005 Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 03 June 2005 Moves by the US intelligence agency to place trainee spies secretly in university anthropology departments have sparked an international outcry in the discipline, writes Phil Baty. Anthropologists in the UK and elsewhere fear that the exercise by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Green | Znet | 15 May 2005 It has become obvious during the course of this academic year (2004-05)—if it was not already—that campus advocacy of Zionist ideology and Israeli state interests is shamelessly repressive of open and respectful discourse based on high standards of evidence, argument, and morality. This repression targets basic

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Vinay Lal | Economic and Political Weekly | 7 May 2005 One element of the present dominant conservative consensus in America is aimed at rescuing the university from the nay-sayers, radicals, communists and relativists who are alleged to have taken over the American university and subverted its charter of academic freedom. There is already

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Sutherland | The Guardian | 11 May 2005 Sue Blackwell is the scholar behind the AUT’s academic boycott of two Israeli universities. When not draping herself in the Palestinian flag she works in the little-known field of corpus studies. But is her research any good, asks John Sutherland Fame, as Eng-Lit academics will