Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) RACHEL LA CORTE | The Associated Press | 27 February 2003 TAMPA, Fla. – A Palestinian professor charged with leading the U.S. operations of a Middle Eastern terrorist group was fired Wednesday by the University of South Florida. Sami Al-Arian, who had been suspended since shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, violated university policy,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kurt Nimmo | CounterPunch | 24 February 2003 It’s dangerous to be photographed with Bush. It’s also dangerous to visit the Bush White House. Sami al-Arian did both of these things. Now he’s sweating it out in an FBI hoosegow. In May of 2001 Sami was invited to the White House to attend a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus | Jewish Chronicle | 1 February 2003 MONA BAKER, the professor who sacked two Israeli academics from private journals she edited, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by her employers, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Ms Baker, professor of translation studies at Umist, removed Professor Gideon Toury of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 January 2003 The British university at the centre of a worldwide furore over a boycott of Israel by one of its professors should change its rules to enable it to discipline staff for bringing the institution into disrepute, a confidential report into the affair recommends. The results

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | C.I.E. | 19 January 2003 (LETTER TO MONA BAKER IN SUPPORT) I have just returned from Israel/Palestine and while there I met with members of the faculty of Birzeit U., Al-Quds U., The Arab-American U. outside of Jenin, Al-Aska U. in Gaza, and Bethlehem U. They feel abandoned by the rest

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) From: Mona Baker [mona.baker@umist.ac.uk] Sent: 15 January 2003 20:00 Subject: OPEN LETTER FROM MONA BAKER TO DENISE NEVO OPEN LETTER TO DENISE NEVO (Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Translation Studies) Dear Denise, I hope you will forgive me for responding to the only message I have ever received from you in the form

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada | 10 January 2003 Following the January 5 suicide attacks, which killed over twenty people in Tel Aviv, Ariel Sharon’s spokesman, Raanan Gissin, announced that Israel would shut down three Palestinian universities, possibly including Bir Zeit, the most prestigious in the West Bank, and academic home to internationally-known Palestinians

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Giles Coren | The Times | 14 December 2002 Professor Mona Baker, the leader of the movement to boycott Israeli academics, is in cahoots with Britain’s leading anti-semitic lunatic, David Irving. You did not know this because you do not enjoy, as I do, wandering through the lush vegetation of David Irving’s website and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Neumann | CounterPunch | 7 December 2002 Daniel Pipes waves Old Glory with an air of menace. He writes stuff like “Profs Who Hate America”. He names names and asks, “Why do American academics so often despise their own country while finding excuses for repressive and dangerous regimes?” These profs, he tells us,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kristin McNeil | The Nation | 11 November 2002 The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation’s thought police. First there was Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney’s American Council of Trustees and Alumni report unveiled last November–“Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing