Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Ram | Occupation Magazine | 26 April 2005  The angry responses in Israel to the decision passed by the Association of University Lecturers in Britain to boycott two Israeli universities, Bar Ilan and Haifa, because of their acquiescence with the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, have, as usual, succeeded in diverting attention

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Times Higher Education Supplement | 29 April 2005 Site Editor’s note: Kimmerling’s position is typical of the Israeli left. No conceivable atrocity can ever justify doing anything to harm the interestes of academics, and particularly Israeli academics. The Association of University Teachers voted last week to boycott two Israeli universities over

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al-Awda Wisconsin | 27 April 2005 (Madison, WI- 04/27/05) – The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has adopted a resolution that calls on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. TAUWP is a statewide local of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Haaretz | 27 April 2005 Last week the union of British university lecturers imposed an academic boycott on two Israeli universities, as a means of pressure and punishment for “Israel’s war crimes.” After a debate inside the British academy, which has gone on since the 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, a compromise was

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) D. Orr | The Independent | 19 April 2005 If a boycott of Israel is ever to work, it must broaden its appeal, not narrow its ambitions The word “academic”, when attached to words such as purely, strictly or highly, seems to emphasise the supposed irrelevance of the cloistered, intellectual, life. When coupled to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom | 26 April 2005 Tel-Aviv, April 26, 2005 To Professor Moshe Kaveh President Bar Ilan University Dear Sir In various media interviews today you expressed anger at the decision of British university lecturers to declare a boycott against the Bar-Ilan University, calling it “an unacceptable mixing of politics into

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Aljazeera.com | 25 April 2005 Two Israeli universities targeted in a boycott by Britain’s biggest teachers union have condemned the decision, calling it shameful and a blow to academic freedom. Bar-Ilan and Haifa university officials said on Monday they did not expect the boycott call by the 40,000-member Association of University Teachers (AUT) to have

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 25 April 2005 The head of the lecturers’ union which last week launched an academic boycott of two Israeli universities has appealed to members not to begin the boycott until they have received advice on how to do so without breaking the law. In her first public comments

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 30 May 2005 Last week, two important developments took place that captured the dilemma facing the Palestinian people. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went to Washington to meet with American leaders and make his case for firmer American involvement in the dormant Palestinian-Israeli peace-making process; and