Month: November 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker A summary of this response appeared as a letter in the London Review of Books: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n17/letters.html In a recent article published in the London Review of Books, Judith Butler selectively refers to aspects of a disagreement we had on the Academics for Justice discussion list in December 2002 in order to level

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Cockburn | Counterpunch | 13 August 2003 The distinguished British philosopher Ted Honderich, is threatening to sue the head of the Holocaust museum in Frankfort for calling him an anti-Semite. The director, Micha Brumlik , levelled the charge last week after Honderich’s book “After The Terror” was published in Germany in July. Suhrkamp,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Judy Maltz | Jewish Telegraph | 4 July 2003 AN Oxford professor has apologised for refusing an application by an Israeli student – because of his nationality. Pathology professor Andrew Wilkie issued the apology after the university announced it was launching an inquiry. Amit Duvshani, 28, who had been seeking a place in Wilkie’s

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeremy Last | Totally Jewish | 3 July 2003 The Israeli student at the centre of the Oxford university admissions scandal has told TJ that his rejection has made him think twice about applying to other universities in Britain. Amit Duvshani, 26, was refused a work placement at an Oxford University laboratory by Professor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) South End Press | South End Press | 7 May 2003 The U.S. publishers of Dr. Huda S. Ammash assert that there may be political motivations for her detention on Monday, May 5 in Baghdad by the U.S. military on allegations that she oversaw Iraq’s purported development of biological weapons. Dr. Ammash, Dean of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Email Circular by Ilan Pappe | 23 May 2003 Haifa The Conference Three weeks ago, my colleague in the University of Haifa, Dr. Asa’d Gahnim of the department of political science suggested convening a conference on the 1948 historiography. We agreed to present in the conference the recent developments in both the Israeli and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) American Association of University Professors | Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP | May 2003 This report deals with actions taken by the administration and the governing board of the University of South Florida against Dr. Sami Al-Arian, associate professor of computer science and engineering, beginning in the fall of 2001 and culminating with his

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) NOTE: This message was sent by Professor Judith Butler to the Academics for Justice list on Monday 5 May 2003. On Thursday May 1st., Israeli Occupation Forces invaded El-Shujaea neighborhood in Gaza city, and arrested Dr. Fadel Abu Hein, a well-known professor of Psychology in Al-Aqsa University and director of Community Training Center for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Blue Triangle Network (Refuse and Resist) | Blue Triangle Network – Solidarity USA | April 2003 The Blue Triangle Network expresses grave concern over the arrest of Professor Sami Al-Arian in Tampa, Florida and four others on terrorism-related allegations. Professor Al-Arian has undertaken a hunger strike in jail to protest his arrest, and this

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Woodward | The Guardian | 31 January 2003 Academics at King’s College, Cambridge, have split over a decision to turn down Edward Said, the distinguished Arab-American intellectual, for an honorary fellowship. One senior fellow at the college, a locus for leftwing radicalism, said they believed the award would have been “provocative” – fuelling