Correspondence with Miriam Shlesinger re Boycott

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker/Miriam Shlesinger | Email Archive, Mona Baker | May/June 2002 The following emails were exchanged between 23 May and 6 June 2002. Various sections have been quoted in the press out of context. This is the complete record of the correspondence. Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:15:46 +0100 From: Mona Baker <mona.baker@umist.ac.uk> To:

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WHY ACADEMIC BOYCOTT – A reply to an Israeli comrade

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Indymedia Israel | May 17, 2002 Dear Baruch Kimmerling, Last week, you published in Ha’aretz a moving letter defending the freedom of expression of a group of Israeli professors, including myself, who signed a European petition calling for a moratorium on European support to the Israeli academia. Here is what you

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Lecturers under fire after call for boycott of Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Julie Henry | The Sunday Telegraph | 4 May 2003 Britain’s largest university lecturers’ union will this week debate the introduction of an academic boycott of Israel in protest at its military crackdown in Palestinian-held territory. The Association of University Teachers, which has 46,000 members including dons and vice-chancellors, will vote on a motion

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Record of Correspondence between Daniel Amit and the Editor of Physical Review

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Amit/Martin Blume | 21 March-9 April 2003 This is the exchange of correspondence between Dr. Daniel Amit and Dr. Martin Blume of Physical Review E regarding the former’s reasons for boycotting his services from Physical Review, the premier journal of physics research. Dr Amit has encouraged spreading his position widely. Sent: Friday, March

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The campaign for Israeli divestment and the charge of anti-Semitism

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Kay | World Socialist Web Site | 10 April 2003 In response to an escalation of Israeli aggression over the past year, a growing movement has emerged on American campuses opposing the oppression of the Palestinian population. Student groups have held numerous protests at universities throughout the country, and most recently a movement

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Top scientist moving to oppose boycott

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jenni Frazer | The Jewish Chronicle | 14 March 2003 Leading British neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield is putting together a high-level delegation of academics to visit Israel later this year, calling the trip her “positive response” to supporters of an academic boycott of Israel. Baroness Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, confirmed to the

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