Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Benny Morris | The Guardian | 14 January 2004 In 1948, thousands of Palestinians fled their homes in what is now Israel, and became refugees. Both sides have blamed each other ever since. But new documents show neither is entirely innocent, argues Benny Morris First, there were the faces, the old Palestinian women huddled
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Adi Ophir | Voices of Civil Rights | January 2004 Response to an interview with Benny Morris in the Ha’aretz supplement, Jan. 9, 2004 At some point in the interview, when the reader might think that Benny Morris has already said the most terrible things, he brings up, in passing, the extermination of the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Smadar Lavie | Anthropology News | OCTOBER 2003 On December 26, 2001, Ariyeh Caspi exhorted in Israel’s highbrow Ha’aretz Weekly that only 8.8% of those holding full professor’s rank in Israeli universities were women. In his article “Search for the Woman,” the journalist nonetheless neglected to mention that all these women pro- fessors are
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ari Shavit | Ha’aretz Daily | 9 January 2004 Benny Morris says he was always a Zionist. People were mistaken when they labeled him a post-Zionist, when they thought that his historical study on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem was intended to undercut the Zionist enterprise. Nonsense, Morris says, that’s completely unfounded.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Relly Sa’ar | Ha’aretz | 27 November 2003 There’s no politically correct spin to put on it, and the facts speak for themselves: As soon as Israel’s top university administrators noticed that the big winners from admissions policy changes were not Jewish youngsters from low-income towns, but rather Arabs, they reverted back to the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oxford University | Oxford University | 27 October 2003 A University spokesperson said: “The Vice-Chancellor has accepted the recommendation of the Visitatorial Board that Professor Wilkie should be suspended from his academic duties within the University, without pay, for two months. Suspension is the most serious penalty that the University can impose, short of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Danny Kemp | The Scotsman/PA | 27 October 2003 Oxford University today suspended a professor who rejected an Israeli student’s application because of the country’s alleged mistreatment of Palestinians. Professor Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology, was suspended without pay for two months and ordered to undergo equal opportunities training. The academic also resigned
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) AP/Haaretz | 27 October 2003 LONDON – An Oxford University professor who refused to hire an Israeli grad student because of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians has been suspended without pay for two months, the university said Monday. In a statement, the university said the suspension of Nuffield Professor of Pathology Andrew Wilkie “reflects
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The following letters were published by London Reviews of Books (LRB, Vol. 25 No. 17) in response to Judith Butler’s essay ‘No, it’s not anti-semitic.’ On Criticising Israel From Yitzhak Laor Judith Butler’s point (LRB, 21 August) can be narrowed to a single question addressed to Israeli and Jewish advocates abroad: where is the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hamid Dabashi | Times Higher Education Supplement | 18 October 2003 Fear of terrorism is fuelling a campaign of hate against Arabs in the US. Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi describes his personal experience Late in June 2002, I came back to New York from a fortnight’s trip to Japan to find my voicemail
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