Electronic Intifada: Palestinians Call for Boycott of Israeli Academia

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Victor Kattan | The Electronic Intifada | 15 December 2004 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has called upon their colleagues in the international community to “comprehensively and consistently boycott all Israeli academic and cultural institutions” as exemplified in the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa through diverse

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Betty Hunter: The Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Betty Hunter | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 When the Palestinian people started the second Intifada in September 2000, the world was forced to look again at the sham of the ‘peace process’, a process which had allowed the human rights violations of the illegal occupation and the land grab to

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Lawrence Davidson: Divestment: Isolating Apartheid Financially

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] 1. Working Assumption: Governments in the West, left to themselves, do not have the will to sanction Israel for its illegal occupation of the Occupied Territories and its violent destruction of Palestinian society. Therefore, an international grass roots

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Lisa Taraki: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Abstract: This presentation discusses how Palestinian academics and intellectuals conceive the academic and cultural boycott of Israel both internationally and locally, and what they ask from academics, artists, writers, and public intellectuals across the world. After outlining the

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Victoria Brittain: Welcome Remarks

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Victoria Brittain | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Welcome to all, especially those who have come from far – Lawrence Davidson and John Docker from the US and Australia, Ilan Pappe, well known to us all here now from his frequent visits, Ur Shlonsky from Switzerland,

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