Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 25 April 2005 The head of the lecturers’ union which last week launched an academic boycott of two Israeli universities has appealed to members not to begin the boycott until they have received advice on how to do so without breaking the law. In her first public comments

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 30 May 2005 Last week, two important developments took place that captured the dilemma facing the Palestinian people. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went to Washington to meet with American leaders and make his case for firmer American involvement in the dormant Palestinian-Israeli peace-making process; and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Ben-Dor | The Independent | 30 May 2005 Driving towards my birthplace of Nahariya in northern Israel, you pass an impressively designed Holocaust memorial, dedicated to “the fighters of the ghettos”. It is difficult not to be touched by its importance and prominence. Three hundred metres further along the same road, lie the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) CELESTE KENNEL-SHANK | Religion Journal | 26 May 2005 (RNS) The United Church of Christ will vote in July on whether to pull church money from U.S. companies involved in constructing Israeli settlements and security measures in Palestinian territories. If approved, the 1.4 million-member church (with a $3 billion investment portfolio) would become the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera | May 30, 2005 An anti-Zionist Jewish activist at a meeting in Malaysia called for UN sanctions against Israel for violating the human rights of Palestinians, a news report has said. Uri Davis, who has written books on apartheid and democracy in Israel and the Middle East, said Israeli bans on trade

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop The Wall Organization | May 30, 2005 On Saturday 21st of May, the annual Nakba Day rally of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign once again drew thousands of supporters into the streets. In pouring rain, protestors marched to Trafalgar Square and denounced Apartheid Israel and its Occupation of Palestine. They demanded an end to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Moti Bassok | Haaretz | June 1, 2005 Universities fear additional attempts to declare boycott of Israel are expected in the near future. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to lead the campaign against the academic boycott targeting Israeli academic institutions. The international campaign being waged by Israeli universities will focus on the public

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ruth Gledhill | Times Online | May 28, 2005 THE Anglican Church is to consider a report calling for it to dispose of its holdings in companies doing business with Israelis who “support the occupation of Palestinian lands”. The report calling for disinvestment is to be debated by the worldwide Anglican Church in Nottingham

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TOUFIC HADDAD | Counterpunch | 28/30 May 2005 I am not in a position to comment upon the details of what took place in England with regards to the outcome of the 26 May special vote within the Association of University Teachers, and its result of rolling back a previous resolution calling for a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Guardian | May 26, 2005 In 1972, before the boycott, I was invited to speak on higher education in South Africa. I went, despite misgivings about going to a country where I could not even sit on a bus with my adopted son, because I was invited by academics who wanted to change