Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) OREN BEN-DOR | Counterpunch | 21 May 2005 I write as an ex-Israeli, who happens to be a British academic. I write because experience has taught my conscience the harm that results from silencing free historical debate, the danger inherent in not letting the Other’s voice challenge national heroic myths. All my education in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | 16 May 2005 French-language version available here. By Monday 16th May, 2005 over 100 Palestinian social movements, NGOs and civil society groups had endorsed the statement released by the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, re-asserting the call for a comprehensive academic boycott of Apartheid Israel. The statement backs the initiative taken by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | Socialist Worker Online | 21 May 2005 The boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a vital part of the struggle for justice for the Palestinians, write Hilary Rose and Steven Rose The AUT lecturers’ union passed resolutions in April calling for a boycott of two Israeli universities. One,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Haaretz | 18 May 2005 The moment I first heard that the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) was planning on boycotting Israeli universities and faculty, I expressed my opposition to the notion in every possible way. I even tried to influence my colleagues in the U.K. and elsewhere – recently

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Tikkun Magazine | May 2005 Divestment and boycotts of Israel are a moral necessity to bring peace. Divestment and boycotts are non-violent tools intended to challenge situations of injustice and war and thus advance justice and peace. There are always issues raised about the use of such non-violent tactics. These issues

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera | 14 August 2005 A five-million-strong US church has rebuked Israel for building a separation barrier along the West Bank, becoming the second major US Protestant denomination to reject policies implemented by the Jewish state. The resolution titled “Peace Not Wall” was adopted on Saturday on a 668-269 vote by members of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haaretz | 6 August 2005 A Presbyterian committee accused five companies of contributing to “ongoing violence that plagues Israel and Palestine” and pledged to use the church’s multimillion-dollar stock holdings in the businesses to pressure them to stop. The move Friday follows a vote last year by leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) LAURIE GOODSTEIN | The New York Times, Page One of Print Edition | 6 August 2005 The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and that if the companies did not

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Received from UN Information Officer | Relief Web | 13 July 2005 Plan is ‘Navigator’ for Civil Society Actors Committed to Middle East Peace; It Pinpoints Areas for Urgent Action by International Community, Says Chairman GA/PAL/989 (Received from a UN Information Officer.) PARIS, 13 July — Civil society organizations committed to ending the Israeli

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) IMEMC Staff | International Middle East Media Center | 9 July 2005 The General Assembly of the United Church of Christ, (UCC) decided in it 25 convention to selectively divest from companies involved with Israel’s occupation of the west bank and Gaza, the building of the West Bank wall and the Israeli settlements within