Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Green | Znet | 15 May 2005 It has become obvious during the course of this academic year (2004-05)—if it was not already—that campus advocacy of Zionist ideology and Israeli state interests is shamelessly repressive of open and respectful discourse based on high standards of evidence, argument, and morality. This repression targets basic
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Vinay Lal | Economic and Political Weekly | 7 May 2005 One element of the present dominant conservative consensus in America is aimed at rescuing the university from the nay-sayers, radicals, communists and relativists who are alleged to have taken over the American university and subverted its charter of academic freedom. There is already
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Sutherland | The Guardian | 11 May 2005 Sue Blackwell is the scholar behind the AUT’s academic boycott of two Israeli universities. When not draping herself in the Palestinian flag she works in the little-known field of corpus studies. But is her research any good, asks John Sutherland Fame, as Eng-Lit academics will
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben-Dror Yemini (translated from Hebrew original) | Ma’ariv | 29 April 2005 Who was the author of the following: “Transfer is the official policy of an Israeli academic institution… transfer appeared as a proposed strategy submitted to the government by senior Labour Party ministers… transfer is openly supported by professors and media commentators. Few
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Rapoport (interview with Ilan Pappe) | Haaretz | 6 May 2005 The shock wave that hit Israeli academia last week, in wake of the boycott declared by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) against Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities, found Dr. Ilan Pappe, the Israeli protagonist in the whole uproar, on a trip to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ariel Segal Ma’ariv (translated from the Hebrew original) | Maariv | 29 April 2005 Every year, on the eve of Passover, a cloud would hang over the festivities of the house of Israel in all its dispersions. Lunacy, cruelty comprised of the basest human drives found vent in the blood libels woven against our
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yuval Yonai, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University | May 2005 To: Professor Ben-Arzi, University Rector Haifa University Staff Re: Severe Inaccuracies in the University’s Response to the AUT Decision Dear Ms. Whintman, I wish to protest on the many inaccuracies that have been inserted into the university’s position in
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Censoring Thought | May 2005 Censoring Thought has obtained a letter, included below, signed by twenty former students of Professor Joseph Massad, stating that the claims made by Deena Shanker that Professor Massad told her to leave his class if she was going to deny Israeli atrocities are unequivocally false. The letter, sent to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brady Dennis | The Hillsborough County Times | 3 May 2005 His lawyers, citing constant news coverage and bias among potential jurors, want the trial moved out of state. TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor accused of raising money for a Palestinian terrorist group, have asked a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chanakya Sethi | Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The potential appointment of a professor embroiled in the recent controversy over Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University has polarized some members of Princeton’s Jewish community. Last month, Wilson School professor and Center for Jewish Life (CJL) board member Stanley Katz wrote a sharply critical
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