Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexandra Smith | The Guardian | 30 May 2006 An international lobby group formed last year after lecturers voted to boycott Israeli universities has vowed to oppose any renewed plans “through legal channels”. The warning from the Israeli-led International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, a body formed at Bar-Ilan University last year after the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Richard Bagley | The Morning Star | 13 March 2006 TOP South African trade unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BURTON BOLLAG | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 7 March 2006 The United States has denied visas to all 55 Cuban scholars who had planned to attend an international conference of the Latin American Studies Association next week in Puerto Rico. According to the association, known as LASA, the Cubans were informed of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent | The Guardian | 7 February 2006 The Church of England’s general synod – including the Archbishop of Canterbury – voted last night to disinvest church funds from companies profiting from Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. The main target of the plan will be the US earth-moving equipment

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oliver Duff, Rob Sharp and Eric Silver in Jerusalem | The Independent | 10 February 2006 A group including some of Britain’s most prominent architects is considering calling for an economic boycott of Israel’s construction industry in protest at the building of Israeli settlements and the separation barrier in the Occupied Territories. Architects and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | 28 January 2006 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has decided to omit from its 2004 Call for Boycott (enclosed below) an exclusion clause which has been justifiably misunderstood by supporters and misrepresented by critics as inconsistent with the institutional boycott advocated by PACBI. With this

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JANICE ARNOLD – Staff Reporter | The Canadian Jewish News | 5 January 2005 Twenty Quebec organizations, including the Fédération des Femmes du Québec (FFQ) and the provincial union of CEGEP teachers, have endorsed a new campaign to boycott Israeli products and companies deemed to be supporting the Jewish state’s “apartheid politics.” They are

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Haywood | justanotheractivist.wordpress.com Why has the BBC aired every DEC charity appeal except one – the Palestinian one (in 2009)? Why did the BBC recently beep the word ‘Palestine’ out of an MC’s song on the radio show 1Extra, as if it were a swear word? The week just gone has been an

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Media Monitors Network | 17 March 2009 Ronnie Kasrils fought for decades against apartheid in his South African homeland, and with victory served in the governments of Nelson Mandela, and later Thabo Mbeki. He is featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of the Media Review Network (MRN), which is an advocacy

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Josh Reubner | IMEU | 8 Jan 2008 Today, two movements for the promotion of human rights in Sudan and Palestine seek to emulate the successful role played by boycotts, divestment, and sanctions in achieving democracy and equality in South Africa. The two movements, however, have received radically different receptions on Capitol Hill. This