Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Betty Hunter | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 When the Palestinian people started the second Intifada in September 2000, the world was forced to look again at the sham of the ‘peace process’, a process which had allowed the human rights violations of the illegal occupation and the land grab to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] 1. Working Assumption: Governments in the West, left to themselves, do not have the will to sanction Israel for its illegal occupation of the Occupied Territories and its violent destruction of Palestinian society. Therefore, an international grass roots
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Abstract: This presentation discusses how Palestinian academics and intellectuals conceive the academic and cultural boycott of Israel both internationally and locally, and what they ask from academics, artists, writers, and public intellectuals across the world. After outlining the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Paulin | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 It’s a great honour to be asked to address you here this morning – I want to begin with a poem by Walid Khazendhar, who is from Gaza. In translation, it’s called ‘Belongings’: Who entered my room when I was out and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Victoria Brittain | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Welcome to all, especially those who have come from far – Lawrence Davidson and John Docker from the US and Australia, Ilan Pappe, well known to us all here now from his frequent visits, Ur Shlonsky from Switzerland,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uzi Benziman | Ha’aretz Daily | 4 August 2003 When Ariel Sharon formed his second government, he announced that he personally would head a single ministerial committee: the one that deals with the non-Jewish population. The prime minister, it was understood, intended to attend personally to the advancement of the population’s Arab sector. Five
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Avnery’s News | 22 December 2003 He read out the written text of his speech, word for word, without raising his eyes from the page. It was vital for him to stick to the exact wording, since it was an encoded text. It is impossible to decipher it without breaking the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ran HaCohen | Antiwar.com | September 29, 2003 The eve of the Jewish New Year is an excellent occasion for what Jewish tradition calls Kheshbon Nefesh, or soul-searching on so-called “anti-semitism”, which has now become the single most important element of Jewish identity. Jews may believe in God or not, eat pork or not,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ibrahim Nafie | Al-Ahram Weekly | 20 – 26 November 2003 The Israeli right stands guilty of more than hypocrisy when they accuse others of being anti-Semitic, writes Ibrahim Nafie ——————————————————————————– Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent upon the charge of “anti- Semitism” as a political weapon. Individuals and organisations, indeed entire
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Cihan News Agency | Cihan News Agency | 13 November 2003 ISTANBUL – The Turkish government will take precautions against an increase in banking activities and the purchase of land in northern Iraq. The Turkish government plans to respond to activities of “Kurdish Credit Bank” which grants loans to Kurdish people to purchase land
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