Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amiram Barkat | Ha’aretz | May 2003 Most of the new immigrants who joined the Israel Defense Forces over the past year were not registered as Jews, Chief Education Officer Brigadier Elazar Stern said yesterday at a conference in Jerusalem’s Heichal Shlomo, headquarters of the Chief Rabbinate. “Last year 51 percent of the immigrants

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 16 May 2003 There was a time when student activists worshipped the then imprisoned South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, voting to name their union buildings after him. Now Birmingham University’s guild of students has threatened disciplinary action against members who circulated a leaflet quoting Mr

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Electronic Intifada/Yedioth Ahronoth | 15 May 2003 Every few months, a “peace plan” is pulled out of the drawers of the White House and keeps the public discourse busy for a few weeks. Although this ritual has a fixed pattern and predetermined end, it is curious that many in Israel are

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Zionist Organisation of America | IMRA | 1 May 2003 NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized the Bush administration’s “Road Map” plan, warning that it is a road map to disaster–it will create a Palestinian Arab terrorist state that will endanger Israel and undermine America’s war against terrorism: The

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Media Monitors | April 20, 2003 It was an almost unbelievable news story: in order to trim the national budget, the Ministry of Education had decided to dismiss hundreds of teachers. A private company got the job of delivering the bitter news to the dismissed teachers. Two days before Passover –

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Lind | New Statesman | 7 April 2003 America’s allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy? And what are they trying to achieve? Quasi-Marxist explanations involving big oil or American capitalism are mistaken. Yes, American oil companies and contractors will accept

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Alon and Yair Ettinger | Ha’aretz | May 2003 The prime minister and defense heads have requested an amendment to the Citizenship Law to prevent automatic Israeli citizenship for a child with a Palestinian parent. The move follows the discovery that the suicide bomber who blew himself up at the Mazza restaurant in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Al-Ahram Weekly | 10 -16 April 2003 As I was reading one of the latest death threats I received via e-mail, I remembered the defamatory campaigns to which Edward Said has been subjected since the 1970s and which included the firebombing of his office in the 1980s. Since last summer, apologists

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Josh Ruebner | Al-Ahram Weekly | 10 -16 April 2003 Josh Ruebner*, in an open letter, calls upon Paul Wolfowitz to resign, now. To My Former Dean and Other ‘Court Jews’, Dear Assistant Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz, I doubt it if you remember me. That’s okay though. I don’t think that I did

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bernard Josephs | The Jewish Chronicle | March 21, 2003 IRAQ-RELATED tensions and pro-tests from Jewish customers persuaded a Hampstead book store to cancel an appearance by anti-Zionist poet Tom Paulin. The Oxford lecturer and BBC cultural pundit – who has derided his critics as “Hampstead liberal Zionists” – had been due to participate