Month: September 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 11 August 2007 The High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition by a group of Palestinian students from Gaza against Israel’s policy of barring students from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank, even when there is no evidence that they pose a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rebecca Spence | Forward (Jewish Daily) | 1 June 2007 Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to

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

From 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

From 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

From 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,

From 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

From 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

From 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

From 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