Category: Legacy Site

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Ariel | The Guardian | 26 May 2005 “If you’re going to talk about occupation, England occupied countries throughout history, and didn’t the English open universities? And didn’t it help the local population?” – Leonid Greenblatt, maths lecturer at College of Judea and Samaria Union to revisit sanctions vote after claims

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liz Ford | The Guardian | 26 May 2005 Members of the Association of University Teachers are meeting in London today to vote for a second time on whether to boycott Israeli universities. The AUT caused uproar around the world when its members voted to boycott Bar-Ilan and Haifa Universities at its conference last

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) OREN BEN-DOR | The Independent | 26 May 2005 Sir: At its meeting on 26 May the AUT should extend its boycott to include all Israeli universities. These universities persistently marginalise the debate about Zionist crimes, by denying sufficient resources and opportunities for it to enter the public discourse in Israel. A proper academic

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain | The Guardian | 25 May 2005 The racist and colonial policies echo apartheid, and call for a similar response Last October, 13-year-old Iman al-Hams was shot and wounded by an Israeli army unit in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, despite being identified as a little girl,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yehudith Harel | Occupation Magazine | 24 May 2005 For me as an Israeli, supporting the academic boycott is not a difficult matter at all. Maybe I am a simpleton and can`t see the whole picture, but for me, as an anti occupation activist, supporting the boycott and calling for its support is really

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | Electronic Intifada | May 25, 2005 During a press conference held at Birzeit University’s Media Institute on May 25, 2005, the Federation of Unions of Palestinian Universities’ Professors and Employees, Birzeit University Employees Union and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), together stated their support for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Carmela Armanios | The Palestine Chronicle | 22 May 2005 “‘Are the Israeli ‘racist and colonial policies’ similar to those of apartheid South Africa?’ As a Mathematician, I believe in applying logic to every problem we face: social, political, administrative or any other. When arguments get entangled with relevant and irrelevant claims, one has

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | The Guardian | 24 May 2005 lan Pappe, whose case was a focus of the lecturers’ boycott vote, appeals to UK colleagues not to back down The Association of University Teachers’ decision to reconsider its motions on the academic boycott of Israel seems to confuse procedure and principle. I am not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis & Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | 24 May 2005 It started with a vote at an academic union conference and escalated into an issue that inflamed passions around the globe. This week the boycott of two Israeli universities is to be reconsidered. Which way will it go? Report by Polly Curtis