Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Jerusalem | The Guardian | 24 September 2004 Campaigners inspired by boycott of apartheid South Africa. An influential Anglican group is to ask church leaders to impose a boycott of Israel and firms that do business there in protest at the occupation. The call, by the Anglican Peace and Justice Network,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview by Nick Everett | Green Left Weekly | 1 September 2004 Dr Ilan Pappe is one of Israel’s most prominent “new historians”. In May 2002, Pappe was threatened with expulsion from his university, the University of Haifa, for supporting a Jewish graduate student whose dissertation documented an massacre of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Zmag | 19 August 2004 Calls for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions have generated a great deal of controversy in some quarters, notably among Israeli academics and their supporters in Europe and the United States. The Palestinian voice, the voice of the Palestinian academy and of Palestinian public intellectuals, has

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Note by the United Nations Centre against Apartheid | African National Congress Website | 1983 The cultural boycott of South Africa became an important aspect of the anti-apartheid movement in 1961 when the British Musicians Union adopted a policy decision that its members should not perform in South Africa as long as apartheid exists.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) African National Congress (ANC) | African National Congress Website | Lusaka, May 1989 1.1. The cultural and academic boycott were conceived as important aspects of the ANC’s strategy for the total isolation of the racist minority regime. After intensive campaigns, conducted by our movement and people, with the support of the world’s anti-apartheid forces,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin B. Qumsiyeh | New Haven Register | 27 July 2004 THE United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week to accept the ruling of the International Court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150-6, the dissenters being the United States, Israel, Australia, and three U.S.-dependent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathan Guttman | Ha’aretz | 22 July 2004 WASHINGTON – The Presbyterian Church’s 216th General Assembly caught American Jewish organizations off guard and by surprise. The Presbyterians have never concealed their criticism of Israeli policies in the territories, but years of dialogue between Jews and Presbyterians had created an impression of an understanding between

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mazin Qumsiyeh | Qumsiyeh: A Human Rights Web | July 2004 On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to accept the ruling of the International court of Justice on Israel’s apartheid wall and demand Israel dismantle it. The vote was 150 countries in support and six against (US, Israel, Australia, and three

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent | Ha’aretz | 19 July 2004 Justice Minister Yosef Lapid warned Sunday that Israel is on the verge of becoming an international pariah and urged the government not to ignore the International Court of Justice. “The Hague court, groups like Amnesty, and United Nations committees, act as a kind of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Melissa Radler | Jerusalem Post | 17 July 2004 Leaders of the Presbyterian Church in the US approved a divestment campaign against Israel in a series of annual resolutions that included a condemnation of Israel’s security fence, a decision to continue funding churches aimed at converting Jews to Christianity and a disavowal of Christian