Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Council for the National Interest | 15 October 2004 The Palestinian Solidarity Movement is meeting October 15-17 at Duke University to discuss divestment strategies, and the lead speaker is Dennis Brutus, the well-known anti-apartheid South African activist who is speaking on the usefulness of divestment in the struggle against oppression and how it helped

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JANINE ZACHARIA | The Jerusalem Post | 17 October 2004 A weekend conference urging divestment from Israel got underway at Duke University on Friday and continued into Saturday with speakers equating Zionism with South African apartheid and some calling for an end to an exclusively Jewish state. The gathering, the fourth organized by the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Mustafa Barghouti | Amin Website | 7 October 2004 We don’t need to react to Sharon. We don’t need to react to him or his ideas. We need to boycott Sharon. We need to reject his plans altogether. We need to send a clear message, to the Arabs and the world, that we

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Denham | The Guardian | 1 October 2004 Trade pressure on Israel would help Blair deliver his Middle East pledge My colleague Ian Gibson MP rang me at 6.30am from his hotel in Ramallah on the West Bank. Our visit to study healthcare in occupied Palestine was about to take a personal and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Jerusalem | The Guardian | 24 September 2004 Campaigners inspired by boycott of apartheid South Africa. An influential Anglican group is to ask church leaders to impose a boycott of Israel and firms that do business there in protest at the occupation. The call, by the Anglican Peace and Justice Network,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview by Nick Everett | Green Left Weekly | 1 September 2004 Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel’s most prominent “new historians”. In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Zmag | 19 August 2004 Calls for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions have generated a great deal of controversy in some quarters, notably among Israeli academics and their supporters in Europe and the United States. The Palestinian voice, the voice of the Palestinian academy and of Palestinian public intellectuals, has

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Note by the United Nations Centre against Apartheid | African National Congress Website | 1983 The cultural boycott of South Africa became an important aspect of the anti-apartheid movement in 1961 when the British Musicians Union adopted a policy decision that its members should not perform in South Africa as long as apartheid exists.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) African National Congress (ANC) | African National Congress Website | Lusaka, May 1989 1.1. The cultural and academic boycott were conceived as important aspects of the ANC’s strategy for the total isolation of the racist minority regime. After intensive campaigns, conducted by our movement and people, with the support of the world’s anti-apartheid forces,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | New Haven Register | 27 July 2004 THE United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to accept the ruling of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150-6, the dissenters being the United States, Israel, Australia, and three U.S.-dependent