Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann | Haaretz | 24 May 2006 The Australian millionairess Lee Lieberman is worried about how Israel is studied in foreign universities – “through the narrow perspective of the Palestinian conflict.” To change the situation and allow Israel to be viewed differently, she recently decided to establish a new chair in Israel studies

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gaza University Teachers’ Association | PACBI | 12 July 2006 The latest round of Israeli war crimes in Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings of the entire Abu Salmyieh family in Sheikh Redwan, Gaza City as they slept in their own house. This brings today’s toll alone to 23 Palestinian martyers. Since Thursday

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sid Ryan | Toronto Globe and Mail | 7 July 2006 When our union recently passed a resolution critical of policies of the government of Israel, it was savagely attacked in several quarters and labelled by many as anti-Semitic. When the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada, the largest Protestant church in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Khalid Amayreh, Al-Jazeera | Electronic Intifada | 24 May 2006 A Palestinian teachers union has called for the dismissal of Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh for “normalising ties with Israel” and “serving Israeli propaganda interests”. A statement by the Palestinian Union of University Teachers and Employees (PUUTE), published on the front page of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Brooks | Electronic Intifada | 16 June 2006 Gideon Levy of the Israeli daily Ha’aretz is an artist at the crafts of reportage and commentary. Prolific yet deeply thoughtful and fair, Levy delivers his subjects whole and unfiltered on the page, speaking from the heart in their own voices. His analysis is honest,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gabriel Ash | Dissident Voice | 6 June 2006 The recent boycott resolutions of CUPE and NATFHE against Israel’s Apartheid predictably awakened Israel’s willing apologists, initiating a high pitched chorus of condemnation and self pity across the Western media, not to mention the blogosphere. Their arguments, however, are flimsy, not to say rotten. I’ll

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | Oxford Student | 1 June 2006 The recent vote by NATFHE in support of a boycott of Israeli institutions is the latest in a series of similar international decisions that signal the determination of civil society to put an end to one of the most brutal and racist colonial enterprises in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alan Cowell | The New York Times | 30 May 2006 Britain’s biggest association of teachers in higher education approved Monday a resolution urging its 67,000 members to consider boycotting Israeli academics who fail to renounce what it called Israel’s “apartheid policies.” The resolution by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexandra Smith | The Guardian | 30 May 2006 An international lobby group formed last year after lecturers voted to boycott Israeli universities has vowed to oppose any renewed plans “through legal channels”. The warning from the Israeli-led International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom, a body formed at Bar-Ilan University last year after the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Richard Bagley | The Morning Star | 13 March 2006 TOP South African trade unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been