Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain | The Guardian | 21 December 2002 Bethlehem is a familiar talisman of peace in Christmas festivities, but this year the innocent image is gone, perhaps for ever. Today Bethlehem’s residents are entombed in their houses 24 hours each day. When the Church of the Nativity was besieged for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | BBC News | 16 August 2002 Plans for Scotland’s Under-21 football team to play a friendly against Israel have triggered an angry response from pro-Palestinian campaigners. Those opposed to the game going ahead have written to the Scottish Football Association (SFA) in protest against the policies of Israel in the Middle

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | CounterPunch | 24 February 2003 “Don’t eat Belgian chocolate,” the Israel consul in Florida ordered the large Jewish community there. In Israel, anti-Belgian curses reached an ear-splitting new crescendo. Miserable Belgium! Mad Belgium! Megalomaniac Belgium! And again and again, Anti-Semitic Belgium! Neo-Nazi Belgium! The Israeli ambassador was, of course, recalled from

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 26 February 2003 A distinguished pro-Israeli Jewish academic will tonight come face to face with the author of an academic boycott of Israel in an attempt to settle a bitterly contested issue that has divided academia. Professor Geoffrey Alderman, vice-president of academic affairs at the American InterContinental University

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Monique Chemillier-Gendreau | Le Monde | February 14, 2003 The affair of the “boycott of Israeli universities” supposedly declared by the administrative council of the University of Paris-VI (Pierre-et-Marie-Curie) in December 2002 was the subject of serious high stakes controversy which it is imperative to clarify. Calls to criticise this position were circulated and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon | The Nation | 14 February 2003 “Among the Judenrat wannabes is your old friend and mine, Neve Gordon,” wrote a Haifa University professor in one of his articles. “Gordon,” the professor continued, “is a fanatic anti-Semite from the monochromatic (Red) Department of Politics at Ben-Gurion University.” The contemptuous adjectives did not,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andrew Jakubowicz | Sydney Morning Herald | 8 February 2003 Should a country’s intelligentsia be ostracised because of their government’s actions? Andrew Jakubowicz examines the international call by academics to boycott their Israeli colleagues. Every morning my computer opens with two email lists – one, from a colleague in Beirut, recounts the latest horrors

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Hasse | Ha’aretz | 6 February 2003 An Oxford bookshop which is boycotting Israeli publishers is behaving in a “totalitarian” way equivalent to burning books, says a leading Californian publisher of New Age books. Jo-Ann Deck, publisher for The Crossing Press in Berkley, California, describes the ban on Israeli publishers recently issued by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Electronic Intifada | 4 February 2003 In April 2002, following the Israel’s “operation” in Jenin, first calls for institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities appeared in England and in France. The British petition called to freeze European Union contracts with Israeli university as long as Israel continues its present policy. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amina Elbendary | Al-Ahram Weekly | 27 January 2003 As the academic and cultural boycott of Israel gains momentum Amina Elbendary meets Mona Baker, one supporter whose position has excited vitriolic attacks. Atrocities committed against the Palestinian people have reached levels that many in the West believe can no longer be tolerated or condoned,