Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ANNIE SHUPPY | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 26 September 2006 The U.S. State Department has again denied a visa to Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Muslim scholar who gave up a teaching appointment at the University of Notre Dame two years ago after he was first barred from residing and working in the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dan Glaister | The Guardian | 19 January 2006 It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. “Do you have a professor who just can’t stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Joffe & Asaf Romirowsky | The Jerusalem Post | 19 October 2005 The problem of scholars injecting politics into their classroom and published works is an old one. But a powerful new article by Ofira Seliktar demonstrates that Israeli scholars – historians, political scientists, and others – have gone far beyond protesting against
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 12 October 2005 Publicly supporting equal rights for Palestinians alongside Israelis has always been a risky venture in the United States, as an American professor who heads the only Middle Eastern studies center at an evangelical American university is discovering these days. The Reverend Donald Wagner,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MEG LAUGHLIN | St. Petersburg Times Tampa Bay | 7 June 2005 The prosecution tries to link the former USF professor to killings in Israel; the defense says there’s no connection. TAMPA – “Israel. Murder. Tampa cell. Pure PIJ.” These were the words Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Furr repeated Monday in his opening statement
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John-Thor Dahlburg | Los Angeles Times | 7 June 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A lawyer for an ex-university professor facing charges that he supported and helped finance a terrorist group in the Middle East tore into the government’s case Monday, claiming that Sami Al-Arian was being prosecuted not for any illegal deeds but for
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nicole Colson | The Socialist Worker, Page 2 | 10 June 2005 After more than two years in prison–much of it spent in solitary confinement–former University of South Florida professor and political activist Sami Al-Arian finally went on trial in Tampa, Fla., this week. There’s little chance, however, that Al-Arian will be able to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | CounterPunch | 03 June 2005 Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 03 June 2005 Moves by the US intelligence agency to place trainee spies secretly in university anthropology departments have sparked an international outcry in the discipline, writes Phil Baty. Anthropologists in the UK and elsewhere fear that the exercise by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Green | Znet | 15 May 2005 It has become obvious during the course of this academic year (2004-05)—if it was not already—that campus advocacy of Zionist ideology and Israeli state interests is shamelessly repressive of open and respectful discourse based on high standards of evidence, argument, and morality. This repression targets basic
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