Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben-Dror Yemini (translated from Hebrew original) | Ma’ariv | 29 April 2005 Who was the author of the following: “Transfer is the official policy of an Israeli academic institution… transfer appeared as a proposed strategy submitted to the government by senior Labour Party ministers… transfer is openly supported by professors and media commentators. Few

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Rapoport (interview with Ilan Pappe) | Haaretz | 6 May 2005 The shock wave that hit Israeli academia last week, in wake of the boycott declared by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) against Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities, found Dr. Ilan Pappe, the Israeli protagonist in the whole uproar, on a trip to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ariel Segal Ma’ariv (translated from the Hebrew original) | Maariv | 29 April 2005 Every year, on the eve of Passover, a cloud would hang over the festivities of the house of Israel in all its dispersions. Lunacy, cruelty comprised of the basest human drives found vent in the blood libels woven against our

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yuval Yonai, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University | May 2005 To: Professor Ben-Arzi, University Rector Haifa University Staff Re: Severe Inaccuracies in the University’s Response to the AUT Decision Dear Ms. Whintman, I wish to protest on the many inaccuracies that have been inserted into the university’s position in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Censoring Thought | May 2005 Censoring Thought has obtained a letter, included below, signed by twenty former students of Professor Joseph Massad, stating that the claims made by Deena Shanker that Professor Massad told her to leave his class if she was going to deny Israeli atrocities are unequivocally false. The letter, sent to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brady Dennis | The Hillsborough County Times | 3 May 2005 His lawyers, citing constant news coverage and bias among potential jurors, want the trial moved out of state. TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor accused of raising money for a Palestinian terrorist group, have asked a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chanakya Sethi | Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The potential appointment of a professor embroiled in the recent controversy over Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University has polarized some members of Princeton’s Jewish community. Last month, Wilson School professor and Center for Jewish Life (CJL) board member Stanley Katz wrote a sharply critical

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The following email messages were sent between Stanley Katz, former CJL board president and Wilson School professor; Arlene Pedovitch ’80, interim CJL director; and Henry Farber, current CJL board president and economics professor; regarding comments made by Pedovitch to The Daily Princetonian. Copies of the messages were obtained

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 26 April 2005 Haifa University President Aharon Ben-Ze’ev called on Dr. Ilan Pappe, a staff member who supports the academic boycott on Israeli universities, to tender his resignation. “It is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself,” Ben-Ze’ev said yesterday.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed News | 25 April 2005 A prominent professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University is up for a professorship at Princeton University — and the controversy over his work and his views could follow him. Rashid Khalidi is currently the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and