Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 22 April 2005 Academics have voted to boycott two Israeli universities over their alleged involvement in “illegal activity” in the occupied territories. Members of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) decided to suspend all links with Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. They were complicit in a system of “apartheid” towards Palestinians, delegates

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 22 April 2005 The woman behind a divisive vote today to boycott Israeli universities has brushed aside criticism of the proposals, saying it is impossible to treat that country’s academics as “normal citizens from a normal state”. Sue Blackwell, a Birmingham lecturer, who is launching her second attempt

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TALYA HALKIN | The Jerusalem Post | 20 April 2005 A heated debate has developed this week surrounding new British motions to boycott Israeli academics, which will be voted on this Friday at the annual meeting of the UK’s Association of University Teachers (AUT). The meeting of the association’s ruling council opened in Eastbourne

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | The Guardian | 20 April 2005 Haifa University academic Ilan Pappe is one of the few Israelis supporting the university boycott of Israel. Here he explains I appeal to you today to be part of a historical movement and moment that may bring an end to more than a century of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | The Guardian | 20 April 2005 The statements against the proposed academic boycott of Israeli universities (Letters, April 19) miss the clear analogy between Israel’s apartheid system and South Africa’s. Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has recently drawn similarities between the two, calling for boycotts against

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | 19 April 2005 Leading figures working in higher education have set out their opposition to a proposed boycott of Israeli universities in protest at the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. In today’s Guardian, academics put their name to letters expressing concern at plans to boycott three

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 18 April 2005 Israeli academics are appealing to members of the Association of University Teachers not to back an academic boycott of a number of their institutions. The AUT is due to vote on Friday on whether to boycott the Hebrew University, Bar Ilans University and Haifa University,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Academics and Intellectuals | boycottisrael@palnet.com | 16 April 2005 Rebuttal by Prominent Palestinian academics and intellectuals of the Statement [1] issued by Al-Quds University’s administration regarding Joint Palestinian-Israeli academic projects: We, Palestinian academics and intellectuals, both in the diaspora and inside the occupied Palestinian territories, believe that the recent public statement issued by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Patrick Bateson | Index for Free Expression | 20 September 2002 When, if ever, is a boycott justified? What are the practical and moral criteria that determine when the time has come? Patrick Bateson, professor of ethology and provost of King’s College, Cambridge University explains his own position. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worsened, Hilary

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | Znet Magazine | 14 April 2005 Some of the most committed Israeli opponents of their state’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian territories have recently expressed serious reservations about, if not strident opposition to, the Palestinian call for boycott** of Israel’s academic and cultural institutions. We think that