Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | 19 April 2005 Leading figures working in higher education have set out their opposition to a proposed boycott of Israeli universities in protest at the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. In today’s Guardian, academics put their name to letters expressing concern at plans to boycott three

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 18 April 2005 Israeli academics are appealing to members of the Association of University Teachers not to back an academic boycott of a number of their institutions. The AUT is due to vote on Friday on whether to boycott the Hebrew University, Bar Ilans University and Haifa University,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Academics and Intellectuals | boycottisrael@palnet.com | 16 April 2005 Rebuttal by Prominent Palestinian academics and intellectuals of the Statement [1] issued by Al-Quds University’s administration regarding Joint Palestinian-Israeli academic projects: We, Palestinian academics and intellectuals, both in the diaspora and inside the occupied Palestinian territories, believe that the recent public statement issued by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Patrick Bateson | Index for Free Expression | 20 September 2002 When, if ever, is a boycott justified? What are the practical and moral criteria that determine when the time has come? Patrick Bateson, professor of ethology and provost of King’s College, Cambridge University explains his own position. As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worsened, Hilary

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | Znet Magazine | 14 April 2005 Some of the most committed Israeli opponents of their state’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian territories have recently expressed serious reservations about, if not strident opposition to, the Palestinian call for boycott** of Israel’s academic and cultural institutions. We think that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 6 April 2005 The leading union of British lecturers may boycott Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government’s policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. The Association of University Teachers’ annual council, which convenes on April 20, will debate whether to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 5 April 2005 The campaign by some academics against Israeli universites will intensify at the Association of University Teachers’ annual council this month. Polly Curtis reports Every day, all over the world, thousands of bundles of research grant applications make their way by airmail from author to funding

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 5 April 2005 State’s policy in occupied territories fuels union debate. Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government’s actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK’s leading lecturers’ union. The Association of University Teachers’ annual council, which begins on April 20 in Eastbourne, will

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Organisations | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) | 27 March 2005 Important Letter from Palestinian Organisations to London School of Economics: Professor Mary Kaldor Professor David Held Co-Directors Centre for the Study of Global Governance London School of Economics 27 March 2005 Dear Professors Kaldor and Held,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE | Associated Press/Yahoo | 23 March 2005 SEATTLE – A mutual fund company that invests only in businesses it deems socially responsible has dropped Starbucks Corp., citing the coffee giant’s launch of a java liqueur with whiskey maker Jim Beam. Pax World Funds, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based fund family, steers clear of