Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | The Independent | 23 April 2005 University lecturers have voted to boycott two of Israel’s eight universities over their alleged complicity with Israeli persecution of Palestinians. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa University and Bar Ilan University, accusing them of colluding in a system of “apartheid”

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis and Matthew Taylor, and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv | The Guardian | 23 April 2005 A leading union voted yesterday to boycott two Israeli universities which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Aaronovitch | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Last Friday saw two examples of intelligent people behaving in a futile way. The first was the decision by the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, to seek the death penalty for would-be suicide terrorist, Zacharias Moussaoui. Not only does such a sentence confer on Moussaoui

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | The Independent | 22 April 2005 Lecturers from Britain’s leading universities will cast their votes today in a poll that threatens to split the academic world. They will vote whether to boycott three Israeli universities because of their alleged backing of government action in the occupied Palestinian territories. Union delegates will

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) | Info@BoycottIsrael.ps | 22 April 2005 The Association of University Teachers (AUT) in the UK voted in its Council meeting today to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities and to disseminate to all its chapters our Call for Boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 22 April 2005 Academics have voted to boycott two Israeli universities over their alleged involvement in “illegal activity” in the occupied territories. Members of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) decided to suspend all links with Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. They were complicit in a system of “apartheid” towards Palestinians, delegates

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 22 April 2005 The woman behind a divisive vote today to boycott Israeli universities has brushed aside criticism of the proposals, saying it is impossible to treat that country’s academics as “normal citizens from a normal state”. Sue Blackwell, a Birmingham lecturer, who is launching her second attempt

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TALYA HALKIN | The Jerusalem Post | 20 April 2005 A heated debate has developed this week surrounding new British motions to boycott Israeli academics, which will be voted on this Friday at the annual meeting of the UK’s Association of University Teachers (AUT). The meeting of the association’s ruling council opened in Eastbourne

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | The Guardian | 20 April 2005 Haifa University academic Ilan Pappe is one of the few Israelis supporting the university boycott of Israel. Here he explains I appeal to you today to be part of a historical movement and moment that may bring an end to more than a century of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | The Guardian | 20 April 2005 The statements against the proposed academic boycott of Israeli universities (Letters, April 19) miss the clear analogy between Israel’s apartheid system and South Africa’s. Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has recently drawn similarities between the two, calling for boycotts against