Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Saree Makdisi | Los Angeles Times | March 10, 2006 RICHARD ROGERS, the noted British architect, was recently summoned to the offices of the Empire State Development Corp. to explain his connection to a group called Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine. Empire State is overseeing the redesign of New York’s $1.7-billion Javits
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National Council of Arab Americans | 4 January 2005 In a widely used college textbook published by McGraw-Hill, an article titled “The Great War on Militant Islam” includes racist references to Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians. See an excerpt below. “Christianity and Judaism in particular – regard themselves, like Islam regards itself, as a final,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Price | Counterpunch | 13 January 2006 The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America’s top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Desmond Tutu | Counterpunch | October 16, 2002 The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure– in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 15 November 2002 St. Jerome Publishing, a British company, has refused to sell one of its books to an Israeli university, as part of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. St. Jerome, an academic press specializing in translation studies, is owned by Mona Baker, a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | The Translator | November 2002 Editorial Statement (The Translator, Volume 8, No. 2, 2002) Since April of this year, a number of petitions endorsing variant forms of an academic boycott against Israel have been signed by hundreds of academics across the world. On 16 April, the executive of the largest union
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris West | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 “The actions of the Israeli Government justifies the boycott,” says Chris West from Friends of Palestine. Professor Mona Baker has come under fire for dismissing two Israeli academics from unpaid positions on the board of her small translation journal. UMIST have strongly criticised this move
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | Personal Record of Email Correspondence | 11 June 2002 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:58:09 +0100 From: Mona Baker <mona.baker@umist.ac.uk> To: Robin xxxxx Subject: Re: The Translator Dear Robin (and Andrew, and everyone else on the list), Thank you Robin and Andrew for this balanced and rational response. I very much
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker and Gideon Toury | Email Archives of Mona Baker | 8-11 June 2002 This is a record of the early correspondence between Mona Baker and Gideon Toury concerning the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. From: Mona Baker, To: Gideon Toury, INTERNET:toury@post.tau.ac.il Date: 08/06/2002 16:02 PM RE: Translation Studies Abstracts Dear Gideon, I
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brendan Montague | Times Higher Education Supplement | 26 July 2002 …is more of a threat to academic freedom than a couple of lecturers being sacked from a small translation journal.’ A delegation of lecturers and students visiting the occupied territories has been left in no doubt that the academic boycott of Israel is
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