Month: December 2015

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Wallace | Electronic Intifada | 20 December 2004 It is not difficult to find the silver lining in the very sad and infuriating conclusion (temporary) to the issue of divestment in Somerville, MA. After a long process and sometimes rancorous debate, the aldermen caved to pressure from powerful Jewish groups who blindly support

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jane Lampman | Christian Science Monitor | 6 December 2004 A vote by the Presbyterian Church (USA) to use economic sanctions against certain companies doing business with Israel – namely those that profit from the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza – has set off a quiet firestorm within the American religious community.

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 3 December 2004 A row has broken out over moves to revive the academic boycott of Israel with a major international conference this weekend at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Pro-Israel groups and individual campaigners have called for the conference, on Sunday, to

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 4 December 2004 University attacked for ‘anti-Israel’ conference London University School of Oriental and African Studies has come under fire for agreeing to host a conference tomorrow at which academics begin a campaign to break links with Israeli universities, significantly increasing an academic boycott of Israel. Jewish groups

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shamai K. Leibowitz | Somerville Divestment Project | November 2004 Shamai Leibowitz is an Israeli human rights lawyer in Tel Aviv who has defended cases before the High Court. He is also an Orthodox Jew, a former tank gunner in the IDF and part of a group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Pauline J. Chang | The Christian Post | 10 November 2004 The Presbyterian Church (USA) may have a list of companies to “divest” from by spring 2005, lest Jewish anti-divestment campaigns complicate plans set during the Nov. 4-6 meeting of the PC(USA)’s Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) team in New York City,

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National convenstion of the National Lawyers Guild, Birmingham, AL | Mengos.net | 24 October 2004 Text of the divestment resolution adopted by the National convenstion of the National Lawyers Guild, on October 24, 2004, in Birmingham, AL. WHEREAS the Israeli government with its illegal occupation and expansionist program in the Palestinian West Bank and

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Rockwell | Common Dreams News Center | 18 November 2004 After the election of George Bush, it took less than a week for peace activists to reach a consensus: “Stand and fight.” The U.S. election is simply unacceptable. No president, no matter how large the vote, has any authority to commit war crimes,

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Wallace | The Electronic Intifada | 16 November 2004 Tension and apprehension filled the air in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts on the night of Monday November 8, 2004. The Somerville Board of Aldermen held a public meeting to consider a non-binding resolution to divest from Israel bonds and from companies who

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Ha’aretz | 15/11/2004 NEW YORK – Special safety precautions were taken in Presbyterian churches throughout the United States on Sunday after leaders received threats that churches would be burned by Monday if they did not demand a reversal of what a letter writer called their “anti-Israel” policy. The Presbyterian church decided

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