Author: Henry Jones

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JACOB GERSHMAN | The New York Sun | 26 October 2004 A British professor who caused an international uproar after she fired two scholars because they were Israeli urged academics to sign a letter in support of a Columbia University professor, Joseph Massad, who she believes is under attack by the “pro-Israel lobby.” A

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PCHR Press Release | Palestine Centre for Human Rights | 23 October 2004 PCHR remains gravely concerned that hundreds of students from the Gaza Strip have not been able to travel to attend their universities abroad, due to the prohibition on travel of Palestinians who are aged between 18 and 35 by Israeli Occupying

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ted Honderich | Ted Honderich Web Site | October 2004 At the Edinburgh Festival Ted Honderich gave a lecture that included moral support for the Palestinians in their struggle against neo-Zionism — the enlarging of the state of Israel beyond its 1967 borders, with what that has entailed and will entail for the Palestinians.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Daily News | 21 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this Editorial. Joseph Massad is an articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward Said in the making. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | The New York Sun | 22 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JACOB GERSHMAN | The New York Sun | 20 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jacob Gershman | The New York Sun | 22 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omayma Abdel Latif | Al-Ahram Weekly | 21-27 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan speaks to Omayma Abdel-Latif about the future of Muslims in the West. “Some in the West cannot get themselves to believe that you can build an identity that is truly Muslim and truly Western at the same time. They are so obsessed with a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Maria Misra | 22 October 2004 … is not always good news, Maria Misra discovered on a recent visit to India. I will watch at least some of David Starkey’s new 20-part series on the British monarchy with interest, even though it’s not quite my kind of history. As an academic who has put her

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Malise Ruthven | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 22 October 2004 Tariq Ramadan is a European Muslim who could help transform Islam’s relations with the West, so why is the US trying to keep him out? asks Malise Ruthven. It is not often that the US Secretary of State intervenes publicly in rows