Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | The Independent | 14 July 2004 The Mongols stained the Tigris black with the ink of the Iraqi books they destroyed. Today’s Mongols prefer to destroy the Iraqi teachers of books. Since the Anglo-American invasion, they have murdered at least 13 academics at the University of Baghdad alone and countless others

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Committee for Free Speech at York University | 30 May 2004 York University President Lorna Marsden is under fire from all directions for her decision to banish student activist and journalist Daniel Freeman-Maloy from campus for three years. Freeman-Maloy’s expulsion was meant to send a message: challenge my administration’s authority, and you will suffer

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Committee for Free Speech at York University | Defend Free Speech at York University | 3 May 2004 To All Concerned Community Members: Last week, a 3rd-year undergraduate student of political science, Dan Freeman-Maloy, received a letter informing him of a 3-year suspension from York University, simply for using a megaphone on campus. The

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Freeman-Maloy | Defend Free Speech at York University | 3 May 2004 On April 30, 2004, I received a letter signed by York University President and Vice-Chancellor Lorna Marsden declaring that I “will have no purpose on campus” after May 1, 2004. If I set foot on York’s campus at any point in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lorna R. Marsden | Defend Free Speech at York University | 30 April 2004 Daniel Freeman-Maloy received the following letter on April 30, 2004. The envelope that contained it was post-marked for April 26, the letter itself dated for April 21. Comments by Freeman-Maloy are in square brackets. Dear Mr. Maloy, In the past

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eyal Press | The Nation | April 22, 2004 [from the May 10, 2004 issue] Daniel Pipes was a busy man in the days following September 11, 2001. The Philadelphia-based foreign policy analyst and commentator on terrorism and Islam first learned that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center when a local television

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 23 April 2004 Israel’s minister of education, Limor Livnat, has announced that she will not participate in events at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev until the institution disciplines a member of its faculty who wrote that Israel is conducting a “symbolic genocide” of the Palestinian people.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz | 22 April 2004 Education Minister Limor Livnat is boycotting Ben-Gurion University of the Negev so long as it continues to employ political sociologist Prof. Lev Grinberg, she has told BGU President Prof. Avishai Braverman. Following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Grinberg wrote in an article that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilil Shahar | Maariv | 7 April 2004 In an article published in a Belgian newspaper, Dr. Lev Greenberg of Ben-Gurion University labels Israel’s actions “criminal” and calls on the world to stop Sharon immediately. “The murder of Sheikh Yassin is part of an Israeli policy that can be described as symbolic genocide”. This