Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop The Wall Organization | 3 July 2005 Palestinian solidarity activists took to the street of Brighton on Saturday 25th of June with a lively procession calling for a boycott of Caterpillar. Campaigners from the local Boycott Apartheid Israel group targeted Caterpillar for supplying Israeli Occupation Forces with machinery and technology used in their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steve Levin | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 1 July 2005 A local United Church of Christ resolution urging divestment from American companies doing business with Israel in the West Bank and Gaza will be voted on by delegates to the national church’s general synod that begins today in Atlanta. Approval of such a measure would

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | June 2005 The Israeli government has chosen Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “lead the campaign targeting Israeli academic institutions.”(1) It is an interesting choice. Perhaps it indicates that Israel is concerned that the academic boycott can do damage to its already shaky economy. Or, perhaps the dapper Netanyahu was chosen because

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ori Nir | Forward | 1 July 2005 Christian Right Hopes To Counter Critics WASHINGTON — The nation’s main coalition of evangelical Christian churches is under internal pressure to adopt a Middle East policy for the first time, and observers expect the group to emerge more centrist and moderate than its current image. In

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Opinion Section | The Telegraph | 24 June 2005 The Christian West has a marked, and growing, prejudice against the state of Israel that the government of that country ignores at its peril. The latest instance will be laid before the Anglican Consultative Council in Nottingham tomorrow, in the form of a recommendation that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) New England Conference of the United Methodist Church | June 11, 2005 Resolution 204 passed on Saturday morning of Annual Conference, following brief but signifcant debate. The resolution calls for a comittee to be created to take action within six months to determine which investments support Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Investment managers are

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | Al-Ahram Weekly | 16-22 June, Issue 747 The boycott of Israeli universities remains a moral imperative, write Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki* The Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Britain has reversed its 22 April decision to boycott Israeli universities. If misinformation, intimidation and bullying were among the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Greg Dropkin | LabourNet UK | 13 June 2005 Susie Jacobs has written a detailed paper “Israel = Apartheid?: a Comparison and Critique” (see e.g. www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/35618/index.php) comparing and contrasting Israeli society with apartheid South Africa, acknowledging a number of common features but cautioning against any over-simplified identification of the two cases when arguing for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mursi Saad El-Din | Al-Ahram Weekly | 9-15 June 2005, Issue No. 746 Two weeks ago I wrote about the decision of the British Association of University Teachers (AUT) to boycott two Israeli universities, calling upon the Palestinians and the Arabs to react to that supportive decision. Whatever reaction there, however, was came from

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yehudith Harel | Chronicle of Higher Education | 17 June 2005 Many Israeli academics and their supporters welcomed the reversal of the AUT boycott. However, we are Israeli human-rights activists who want to express our disappointment and to reaffirm our support for a comprehensive boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions. We do so