Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Ha’aretz | 15/11/2004 NEW YORK – Special safety precautions were taken in Presbyterian churches throughout the United States on Sunday after leaders received threats that churches would be burned by Monday if they did not demand a reversal of what a letter writer called their “anti-Israel” policy. The Presbyterian church decided
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anglican Church | qumsiyeh.org | 22 September 2004 We, as members of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network, representing 23 Provinces of the worldwide 75,000,000 member Anglican Communion, have visited the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem over these last 8 days, and during that time have been inspired by the faith of the people in
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Associated Press | 13 November 2004 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Presbyterian Church (USA) has stepped up security at its headquarters and advised its churches to be on alert after receiving a letter threatening arson attacks because of its policies in the Middle East. The handwritten letter, received Wednesday at the church’s Louisville headquarters, threatened
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scoop | 28 October 2004 Christian Peace Group Supports Divestment from Israel The 10th anniversary assembly of Pax Christi Aotearoa-New Zealand, held in Auckland on 1-2 October, endorsed the Anglican Peace and Justice Networks and Presbyterian Church of the United States in their recent call for divestment in Israel modelled on the popular boycott
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Trieman | Beliefnet.com Will new church moves toward stopping investment in companies that do business in Israel endanger Christian-Jewish relations? When the Presbyterian Church (USA), the nation’s major Presbyterian body, decided this summer to move toward cutting off investments in select companies that do business with Israel, Jewish groups were caught off guard.
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Khalid Abdalla The story of the Egyptian revolution carries a heavy burden. Its many tales travel across contexts and experience, within Egypt and beyond it, influencing movements and revolutions while building dreams and threatening them. Solidarity fundamentally entails sharing an interpretation of a story. How that story is told and re-told has political and historical implications that are as much
» Read moreAhram Online met with renowned Egyptian-British actor Khalid Abdalla and discussed his varied repertoire as a filmmaker, producer, co-founder of important film initiatives and also as a political activist Nourhan Tewfik , Saturday 26 Dec 2015 “It was a World War I play. We were in a classroom. All the chairs were moved to the side and there was a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | The Independent | 23 April 2005 University lecturers have voted to boycott two of Israel’s eight universities over their alleged complicity with Israeli persecution of Palestinians. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa University and Bar Ilan University, accusing them of colluding in a system of “apartheid”
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis and Matthew Taylor, and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv | The Guardian | 23 April 2005 A leading union voted yesterday to boycott two Israeli universities which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Aaronovitch | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Last Friday saw two examples of intelligent people behaving in a futile way. The first was the decision by the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, to seek the death penalty for would-be suicide terrorist, Zacharias Moussaoui. Not only does such a sentence confer on Moussaoui
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