Israel persecutes Palestinian technical students (IWPS Arrest Report No. 19)

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) International Women’s Peace Service | IWPS | February 14, 2003 Note: This is an important document because it suggests that the Israelis are now targeting highly successful technical students–not because of their political activity or for ‘security’ reasons, but because they promise self-reliance and development in the Palestinian community. Thanks to Haidar Eid for

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An Old Evil Renames Itself as "Transfer": A Thousand Professors

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Weir | CounterPunch | February 8, 2003 It’s not every day that you get the chance to prevent a crime against humanity. This is one of those times. For several months now, those of us following events in Israel-Palestine closely have been hearing increasingly disturbing reports. Americans returning from the Palestinian Occupied Territories

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Mosque destroyed in Israel as Ariel Sharon's Judaization project for the Negev begins

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages of the Palestinian Bedouin | Electronic Intifada | 6 February 2003 The Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages of the Palestinian Bedouin in the Negev-Israel [1] condemns the demolition of a mosque in the unrecognized village of Tel Al-Mileh, and views this operation as the beginning of the

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The Empire Strikes Back: Sharon and Settlers Destroy the Infrastructure of Palestinian Existence

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon & Catherine Rottenberg | CounterPunch | February 3, 2003 Nine Palestinian farmers were taken to the nearby military base. When they arrived soldiers jumped on them, tied their hands behind their backs and fixed a piece of cloth around their eyes. They were led to a deserted area in the base and

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Anti-Semitism

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Edward Herman | Znet | November 25, 2002 Palestinians are “Semites,” but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that prejudice against Jews has sharply

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The Cancer Cells

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom | 1 November 2003 In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories. In the 18 year long

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The changing face of Hanan Ashrawi

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JUSTICE MARCUS EINFELD | Australian Jewish News | 31 October 2003 NO-ONE in Australia has had more contact with Dr Hanan Ashrawi than I. In the 1990s, as president of Australian Legal Resources International (ALRI), a non-government corporation of judges and lawyers assisting countries in transition to democracy, I instituted a program in the

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