Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Awda Press Release | 1 February 2005 (Madison, WI- 02/01/05) – The Faculty Senate of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville adopted a resolution last week demanding that the University divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. The resolution urges the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | January/February 2005 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 the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Irene Brugel | Jews for Justice for Palestinians | 8 December 2004 The conference on Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Principles at SOAS on December 5th showed that there is quite strong support for a ‘comprehensive’ boycott of Israeli academic institutions. In commenting on part of the discussion I want to make clear that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop the Wall Campaign | 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 Apartheid policies. The

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Francis A. Boyle | CounterPunch | 24 December 2004 It was December of 1991 and I was serving as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations in Washington DC. The Israelis were stalling –not even negotiating in bad faith. And the Americans were doing nothing to get the negotiations

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

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.

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

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

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