Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 Education Minister Limor Livnat slammed Dr. Ilan Pappe, a Haifa University historian, on Thursday for supporting the academic boycott on Israel imposed by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT). She said it is permissible to criticize, but not to undermine the Jewish state’s right to exist.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dennis Brutus | International Socialist Review, Issue 41 | May 2005 Since the Sixties until 1994 I have dedicated most of my time – apart from a spell on Robben Island Prison – to promote and enforce the boycott of Apartheid South Africa. I have no doubt that international solidarity, particularly in the form

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) LIZETTE ALVAREZ | The New York Times | 8 May 2005 LONDON, May 7 – Acting in response to an appeal by 60 Palestinian organizations, Britain’s leading higher education union has voted to boycott two Israeli universities. The boycott, which has prompted outrage in Israel, the United States and Britain, would bar Israeli faculty

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | 7 May 2005 The AUT’s decision to reconsider its motions on the academic boycott of Israel seems to confuse procedure and principle. I am not a trade union activist, neither am I a British citizen, but I understand there may – or may not – have been procedural and even tactical errors

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Yuval Yonai, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Letter to Rector and Staff of Haifa University | April 2005 To Professor Ben-Arzi, University Rector Haifa University Staff Re: Severe Inaccuracies in the University’s Response to the AUT Decision Dear Ms. Whintman, I wish to protest on the many inaccuracies that have

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ruth Sinai | Haaretz | 6 May 2005 The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment has prohibited a Haifa bookstore from importing books printed in Lebanon and Syria, counter to a policy followed for many years that permitted such imports. The head of the ministry’s Wood, Paper, and Print Department, Shmuel Nahmias, sent a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart, translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall. |Yediot Aharonot | 4 May 2005 A boycott decision, like that passed by Britain’s Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli universities, naturally raises a hue and cry among Israelis. Why us? And why now, ‘just when negotiations with the Palestinians might be renewed’? It

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Nabil Kassis | Palestine Report, Volume 11 Number 43 | 27 April 2005 This week Palestine Report Online interviews Nabil Kassis, President of Birzeit University, on the boycott of two Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT). PR: Do you think the boycott initiated by the AUT is a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Spyer | Haaretz | 22 April 2005 The British Association of University Teachers (AUT) is due today to debate the question of an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The motions to be discussed single out the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University for condemnation. In all three cases, specific grievances

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) S. Leibowitz | Haaretz | 1 May 2005 As an Israeli who still lives in Israel, I support this boycott. Precisely because I love the people who live here, and preciely because I still believe in the Jewish values of freedom, justice and equality, I want to congratulate the British associaton for taking this