Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dominic Casciani | BBC News | 29 December 2005 Britain’s top Jewish body has apologised for branding a Muslim charity a “terrorist organisation”. In an out-of-court settlement, the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it should not have described Interpal in these terms. London-based Interpal, which raises millions for Palestinian causes, had launched

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Ben-Dor | Counterpunch | 15 December 2005 Today we hear a lot about legal challenges mounted against the wall in the West Bank. I would like to reflect upon a different wall, a metaphorical wall, the wall which remains ethically and legally unchallenged and whose foundations are actually, albeit unwittingly, being fortified by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Noble | Canadian Dimension | 1 November 2005 This is not about Jews. It is not about race, ethnicity or religion. It is about power. The new Israel lobby in Canada — the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) — has enormous power, derived from abundant resources, corporate connections, political associations,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mary Ellen Davis | Montrealserai.com | November 2005 (In the heart of the West Bank, checkpoints separate Palestinian youth and instructors from their classrooms; by September the sealed wall will further disrupt access to education.) The view is impressive from the balcony of the Muhsen family’s apartment in Abu Dis. Hisham, a fine arts

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Inigo Gilmore | The Observer | 30 October 2005 It was one of the most shocking massacres to scar the Middle East, the slaying of more than 2,000 Palestinians by Christian militiamen in the wretched Lebanese refugee camps. Now a film has returned to the story of Sabra and Shatila. But for the first

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | 26 October 2005 One of the difficulties in writing regularly about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, in my eyes, that so little ever changes. The basic constants – above all, Israel’s overwhelming military, economic, and political superiority, all serving its colonialist aims – change slightly over years, if at all.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ramzy Baroud | Al-Ahram Weekly, Issue No. 759 | 8-14 September 2005 In the halls of infamy, Machiavelli and Sharon walk hand in hand, writes Ramzy Baroud* Many lessons can be extracted from observing Israeli dominion over the Palestinians in the past 55 years, most notably the audacious mandate of institutionalised violence. Even more

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammad Abed | Znet Magazine | 17 August 2005 I The Meaning of Disengagement Maintaining or intensifying oppressive policies requires the manufacture of a diversion, a ‘smokescreen’ that buys time and accumulates political capital. One reliable way of accumulating political capital is to make changes that incur minimal political and human costs while creating

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Abed | The Badger Herald | 8 September 2005 The territory of historical Palestine is home to two ethnic groups, Israelis and Palestinians. Today, this entire territory is under the full political and military control of Israel, a state that defines itself as serving the interests of only one of the ethnic groups

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shahid Alam | 1 September 2005 “Captain Gordon Pim stated in his speech that it was a philanthropic principle to kill natives; there was, he said, “mercy in a massacre.” Sven Lindqvist, Exterminate the Brutes (1996) At last Mr. Elie Wiesel has spoken of the ‘dispossessed’ in Palestine. It is appropriate that he should