Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign | March 2005 Boycott the Ireland-Israel football matches On 26 March 2005, Ireland is due to play Israel in Tel Aviv, as part of the 2006 World Cup Qualifiers. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), supported by the Movement against Israeli Apartheid, is calling on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI)

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shamai Leibowitz | The Nation | March 15, 2005 The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has led to an explosion of “people power” in the streets of Beirut, in which hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens have called for an end to Syria’s occupation of their land. These calls have been

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | March 2005 Towards the end of the first semester of the academic year 2004-2005, the Union of Teachers and Employees of Al-Quds University conducted a survey of opinions of a representative sample of teachers and employees regarding normalization

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Jacqueline Sfeir | The Electronic Intifada | 3 March 2005 AN OPEN LETTER TO UNESCO Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO UNESCO 7, Place de Fontenoy 75352 PARIS 07 SP, France 2 March 2005 Dear Mr. Matsuura, On behalf of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Associated Press | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel, said on Thursday a high-level fact-finding team came back deeply disturbed after visiting the West Bank and nearby areas. “Israel has a right to defend itself. But it appears

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeffrey Blankfort | Left Curve/Dissident Voice | 25 May 2005 “In an article in the New York Times (April 19, 2003), reporter Emily Eakin tells the story of a University of Chicago confab called to assess theory’s fate. At a session attended by a bevy of humanities superstars, a student asked: What good is theory

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 May 2005 The AUT boycott is part of a tradition of non-violent protest, argue Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Just 50 years ago, six years after the call from the African National Congress, 496 British academics published a letter advocating the boycott

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 Education Minister Limor Livnat slammed Dr. Ilan Pappe, a Haifa University historian, on Thursday for supporting the academic boycott on Israel imposed by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT). She said it is permissible to criticize, but not to undermine the Jewish state’s right to exist.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dennis Brutus | International Socialist Review, Issue 41 | May 2005 Since the Sixties until 1994 I have dedicated most of my time – apart from a spell on Robben Island Prison – to promote and enforce the boycott of Apartheid South Africa. I have no doubt that international solidarity, particularly in the form

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) LIZETTE ALVAREZ | The New York Times | 8 May 2005 LONDON, May 7 – Acting in response to an appeal by 60 Palestinian organizations, Britain’s leading higher education union has voted to boycott two Israeli universities. The boycott, which has prompted outrage in Israel, the United States and Britain, would bar Israeli faculty