Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Haaretz | August 14, 2005 The struggle against incitement is the refuge of cowards, who are afraid to attack the inciters for their genuine acts of injustice. The battle by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz against turning incitement into a wholesale offense is an important fight to preserve freedom of expression in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hind Khoury | International Herald Tribune | 11 August 2005 JERUSALEM After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating the few thousand settlers who have been denying freedom to more than a million Palestinians there. Israel has marketed the Gaza withdrawal as yet

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rafael Behr | The Observer | 17 July 2005 Likening the Israelis’ treatment of Palestinians with the Holocaust is outrageous to most Jews. But Jacqueline Rose has dared to do just that in The Question of Zion, says Rafael Behr The Question of Zion Jacqueline Rose Princeton University Press £12.95, pp155 Shortly after the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haaretz Editorial | Haaretz | 16 June 2005 The housing fair that took place in the north last Sunday was aimed at attracting new residents to towns in the Galilee. But it turns out that not all Israeli citizens are welcome in these “community villages.” Haaretz reporter David Ratner, who was present at the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Angela Godfrey, ICAHD (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) | June 2005 MINISTRY OF STATE FOR JERUSALEM AFFAIRS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FACT SHEET Israel’s intention to demolish an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem is part of its on-going strategy of transferring Christians and Muslims from Jerusalem while making room for more Israeli Jewish colonies.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sharif Hamadeh | Electronic Intifada | May 31, 2005 International support for Israel turns on the uncritical acceptance of the Jewish state as bravely fulfilling the obligations of a Western-style democracy in an otherwise hostile region. In reality, this is simply a PR-friendly re-branding of an old Herzlian notion. In The Jewish State, Theodor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathan Guttman | Haaretz | May 30, 2005 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file indictments against two former senior staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and, according to sources familiar with the affair, the charges will be subsumed under the Espionage Act.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeffrey Blankfort | Middle East Labor Bulletin, Volume 4, No. 3 | Fall 1993 NEW ORLEANS—The embattled Anti-Defamation League’s National Director, Abraham Foxman, is “going to war — and he’s going to enlist American Jews as his foot soldiers,” wrote the No. California Jewish Bulletin’s Garth Wolkoff this past May, and he wasn’t joking.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | London Review of Books, Volume 27, No. 10 | 19 May 2005 The right of the Palestinian refugees expelled in the 1948 war to return home was acknowledged by the UN General Assembly in December 1948. It is a right anchored in international law and in accordance with notions of universal

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 13 May 2005 A dossier of evidence documenting alleged instances of anti-semitic behaviour at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) has been compiled and delivered to Colin Bundy, the head of the school, with a threat that legal action could follow should he not take action