Month: January 2016

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 11 July 2002 A leading South African university vice-chancellor has pledged support to the British academic boycott of Israel, comparing the Middle Eastern country’s regime to that of apartheid South Africa. However, Professor Brian Figaji, of Peninsula Technikon University, warned against using a “big brush” approach to all

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 5 July 2002 Two Israeli scholars have been dismissed from the boards of British journals of translation studies as part of an academic boycott of Israel declared in April by a group of European scholars and intellectuals. Miriam Shlesinger, a senior lecturer in translation studies

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker/Miriam Shlesinger | Email Archive, Mona Baker | May/June 2002 The following emails were exchanged between 23 May and 6 June 2002. Various sections have been quoted in the press out of context. This is the complete record of the correspondence. Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:15:46 +0100 From: Mona Baker <mona.baker@umist.ac.uk> To:

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Indymedia Israel | May 17, 2002 Dear Baruch Kimmerling, Last week, you published in Ha’aretz a moving letter defending the freedom of expression of a group of Israeli professors, including myself, who signed a European petition calling for a moratorium on European support to the Israeli academia. Here is what you

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Woodward | The Guardian | 10 May 2003 Union votes for maintaining links to support progressive academics The largest university lecturers’ union last night voted by a majority of about 2-1 to reject a call for an academic boycott of Israel, saying such a ban would harm progressive Israeli academics campaigning against the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Julie Henry | The Sunday Telegraph | 4 May 2003 Britain’s largest university lecturers’ union will this week debate the introduction of an academic boycott of Israel in protest at its military crackdown in Palestinian-held territory. The Association of University Teachers, which has 46,000 members including dons and vice-chancellors, will vote on a motion

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Woodward | The Guardian | 5 May 2003 A university lecturers’ union will debate a call for an academic boycott of Israel at its annual conference in Scarborough this week. The executive of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) is opposing a motion to be put before delegates on Friday by Sue Blackwell,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Amit/Martin Blume | 21 March-9 April 2003 This is the exchange of correspondence between Dr. Daniel Amit and Dr. Martin Blume of Physical Review E regarding the former’s reasons for boycotting his services from Physical Review, the premier journal of physics research. Dr Amit has encouraged spreading his position widely. Sent: Friday, March

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Kay | World Socialist Web Site | 10 April 2003 In response to an escalation of Israeli aggression over the past year, a growing movement has emerged on American campuses opposing the oppression of the Palestinian population. Student groups have held numerous protests at universities throughout the country, and most recently a movement

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jenni Frazer | The Jewish Chronicle | 14 March 2003 Leading British neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield is putting together a high-level delegation of academics to visit Israel later this year, calling the trip her “positive response” to supporters of an academic boycott of Israel. Baroness Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, confirmed to the