Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 5 April 2005 State’s policy in occupied territories fuels union debate. Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government’s actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK’s leading lecturers’ union. The Association of University Teachers’ annual council, which begins on April 20 in Eastbourne, will

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Organisations | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) | 27 March 2005 Important Letter from Palestinian Organisations to London School of Economics: Professor Mary Kaldor Professor David Held Co-Directors Centre for the Study of Global Governance London School of Economics 27 March 2005 Dear Professors Kaldor and Held,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE | Associated Press/Yahoo | 23 March 2005 SEATTLE – A mutual fund company that invests only in businesses it deems socially responsible has dropped Starbucks Corp., citing the coffee giant’s launch of a java liqueur with whiskey maker Jim Beam. Pax World Funds, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based fund family, steers clear of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign | March 2005 Boycott the Ireland-Israel football matches On 26 March 2005, Ireland is due to play Israel in Tel Aviv, as part of the 2006 World Cup Qualifiers. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), supported by the Movement against Israeli Apartheid, is calling on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shamai Leibowitz | The Nation | March 15, 2005 The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has led to an explosion of “people power” in the streets of Beirut, in which hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens have called for an end to Syria’s occupation of their land. These calls have been

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | March 2005 Towards the end of the first semester of the academic year 2004-2005, the Union of Teachers and Employees of Al-Quds University conducted a survey of opinions of a representative sample of teachers and employees regarding normalization

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Jacqueline Sfeir | The Electronic Intifada | 3 March 2005 AN OPEN LETTER TO UNESCO Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO UNESCO 7, Place de Fontenoy 75352 PARIS 07 SP, France 2 March 2005 Dear Mr. Matsuura, On behalf of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Associated Press | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel, said on Thursday a high-level fact-finding team came back deeply disturbed after visiting the West Bank and nearby areas. “Israel has a right to defend itself. But it appears

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeffrey Blankfort | Left Curve/Dissident Voice | 25 May 2005 “In an article in the New York Times (April 19, 2003), reporter Emily Eakin tells the story of a University of Chicago confab called to assess theory’s fate. At a session attended by a bevy of humanities superstars, a student asked: What good is theory

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 May 2005 The AUT boycott is part of a tradition of non-violent protest, argue Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Just 50 years ago, six years after the call from the African National Congress, 496 British academics published a letter advocating the boycott