Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haim Bresheeth | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Much energy is spent unnecessarily, comparing the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the State of Israel, in order to equate the two and make a boycott acceptable. In my view there is no need for this comparison
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben Young | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Hello everyone, I hope that you’re finding this conference as illuminating and informative as I have. I’m in total accord with the other speakers who have clearly stated that there is so much we can do in terms
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] We began I think all by acknowledging we were here because of Hilary and Steven Rose, whose moratorium initiative moved us all to action. Victoria Britain started our day by reminding us that the anti-apartheid movement appeared at
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | 5 December 2004 ON DEC. 5, some 270 academics from around the world convened in London to discuss the implementation of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions and the severing of cultural links with Israel. The aim of the conference was to refine
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Grassroots Anti-apartheid Wall Campaign | Stopthewall.org | 8 December 2004 On Sunday, December 5, 2004, a large audience packed the lecture theatre of the Brunei Gallery at the School of Oriental and African Studies for “Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Principles.” The all-day conference offered strategies for countering the Israeli occupation and Israeli
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Victor Kattan | The Electronic Intifada | 15 December 2004 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel has called upon their colleagues in the international community to “comprehensively and consistently boycott all Israeli academic and cultural institutions” as exemplified in the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa through diverse
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Betty Hunter | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 When the Palestinian people started the second Intifada in September 2000, the world was forced to look again at the sham of the ‘peace process’, a process which had allowed the human rights violations of the illegal occupation and the land grab to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] 1. Working Assumption: Governments in the West, left to themselves, do not have the will to sanction Israel for its illegal occupation of the Occupied Territories and its violent destruction of Palestinian society. Therefore, an international grass roots
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Abstract: This presentation discusses how Palestinian academics and intellectuals conceive the academic and cultural boycott of Israel both internationally and locally, and what they ask from academics, artists, writers, and public intellectuals across the world. After outlining the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Paulin | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 It’s a great honour to be asked to address you here this morning – I want to begin with a poem by Walid Khazendhar, who is from Gaza. In translation, it’s called ‘Belongings’: Who entered my room when I was out and
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