Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathan Guttman | Ha’aretz | 22 July 2004 WASHINGTON – The Presbyterian Church’s 216th General Assembly caught American Jewish organizations off guard and by surprise. The Presbyterians have never concealed their criticism of Israeli policies in the territories, but years of dialogue between Jews and Presbyterians had created an impression of an understanding between

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Qumsiyeh: A Human Rights Web | July 2004 On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept the ruling of the International court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150 countries in support and six against (US, Israel, Australia, and three

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent | Ha’aretz | 19 July 2004 Justice Minister Yosef Lapid warned Sunday that Israel is on the verge of becoming an international pariah and urged the government not to ignore the International Court of Justice. “The Hague court, groups like Amnesty, and United Nations committees, act as a kind of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Melissa Radler | Jerusalem Post | 17 July 2004 Leaders of the Presbyterian Church in the US approved a divestment campaign against Israel in a series of annual resolutions that included a condemnation of Israel’s security fence, a decision to continue funding churches aimed at converting Jews to Christianity and a disavowal of Christian

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gerald Kaufman | The Guardian | 12 July 2004 What worked with apartheid can bring peace to the Middle East. The bomb attack in Tel Aviv yesterday highlights the desperate need to achieve a peace settlement. It highlights, too, the futility of the wall Israel is building in Palestinian land, a wall condemned by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eric J. Greenberg | Forward | 16 July 2004 In an unprecedented victory for pro-Palestinian activists, leaders of the largest Presbyterian denomination officially equated the Jewish state with apartheid South Africa and have voted to stop investing in Israel. With the decision, approved in a 431-62 vote at the 216th annual General Assembly of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ori Golan | Times Higher Education Supplement | 16 July 2004 UK academic Stephen Rose has renewed calls for an international academic boycott of Israeli universities at a conference to find solutions to Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. Professor Rose, a founder of the international academic boycott campaign, read out a letter from the Palestinian Campaign for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexa Smith | Presbyterian Church (USA) | 2 July 2004 RICHMOND, July 2 — The 216th General Assembly approved several measures opposing the Israeli occupation of Palestine Friday, including a call for the corporate witness office of the Presbyterian Church (USA) to begin gathering data to support a selective divestment of holdings in multinational

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 6 July 2004 Leading proponents of an academic boycott against Israel today condemned the killing of an academic in the West Bank and vowed to step up their campaign to cut ties with Israeli universities. University professor Khaled Sallah and his 16-year-old son Mohammed were among five Palestinians

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop the Wall Campaign | 28 February 2005 The Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign has launched calls for a sports boycott of Israel, as its national team look set to take on the Apartheid state in the qualifying stages of the World Cup. Activists from the Republic of Ireland, a country with its own struggle