Category: Academics Under Attack

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Pipes | New York Post | 15 November 2002 AMERICANS broadly agree on two facts about the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq: its brutality and the danger it poses to themselves, especially the danger of nuclear attack. Disagreement arises primarily over what to do: Take out the regime now? Give Baghdad another chance?

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Francis Elliott and Catherine Milner | The Sunday Telegraph | 17 November 2002 Tony Blair has told Britain’s Chief Rabbi that he will “do anything necessary” to stop the academic boycott of Israeli scholars at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist). The Prime Minister told Jonathan Sacks during a private

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 November 2002 The university should stop hounding Mona Baker and defend scholarly freedom, say Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson. Translation studies is a discipline that does not normally attract attention, but Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus and Eric Silver | The Jewish Chronicle | 1 November 2002 The Board of Deputies said this week it was considering calling for a boycott by British academics of a Manchester-based publisher which is refusing to supply its specialist publications to Israeli universities. St Jerome Publishing, run by Ken Baker, has refused

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Relly Sa’ar | Haaretz Daily | 25 October 2002 The British academic publisher St. Jerome Publishing has informed Bar-Ilan University that it will no longer sell books and periodicials to the school due to Israel’s activities in the territories. This is the second time that St. Jerome, a highly regarded Manchester-based publisher that specializes

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) KATE GALBRAITH | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 18 October 2002 The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in England, is investigating a professor who sent a virulently anti-Israel e-mail message to an American academic that apparently portrayed Israel as the “mirror image of Nazism.” The professor has apologized for the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lucy Proctor | Sudent Direct | 30 September 2002 UMIST has launched an enquiry into the actions of lecturer Mona Baker following her decision over the summer to dismiss two Israeli academics from her translations journal. The action was taken after the lecturer re-ignited the Palestine-Israel rift by axing writers Miriam Schlesinger and Gideon

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Sacker | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 As Jewish students at Manchester, our initial concern is to where such actions will lead, and what effect they will have on Jewish students not only on the UMIST campus, but across all four Manchester campuses as well as nationally. Will the pursuit of lecturers