Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Lazare | The Nation | 16 October 2003 Is Zionism a failed ideology? This question will strike many people as absurd on its face. Israel, after all, is a nation with an advanced standard of living, a high-tech economy and one of the most formidable militaries on earth. In a little over half

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ALISON WEIR | 18 October 2003 Left on our office voicemail at 2 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2003: “Hi. I heard your speech today in UC Berkeley; the debate. I’m telling you this right now. On Monday, at 2 PM, you better not be in your office. Because me and my buddies, who were

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amira Hass | Hareetz | 14 October 2003 The Israeli Army has issued a military order, signed and effective as of October 2, 2003, declaring all Occupied West Bank land between the “security” wall and Israel’s pre-occupation 1967 border as “closed” (the “Closed Zone”). The Order states that “No person will enter the [Closed

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Edward Said | Counterpunch | 1999 Given the approach of the final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians it seems worthwhile to record here the lengths to which the Israeli right-wing (Jabotinsky and Netanhayu’s Revisionists) will go to further its claims on all of Palestine against those of the country’s native Palestinian inhabitants

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Jeff Halper by John Elmer | FromOccupiedPalestine.org | 20 September 2003 Jon Elmer, FromOccupiedPalestine.org: You use the term ‘matrix of control’ to describe the Israeli occupation. Can you explain exactly what that is and how it functions? Jeff Halper: The Israel-Palestine conflict is often framed in terms of territory: ending the occupation,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Benvenisti | Haaretz | 3 August 2003 The glorious saga of the operations to rescue the surviving remnants of the Jewish people had to end in a ridiculous farce; that’s what happens when an establishment that has become outdated insists on using its final ounce of strength to squeeze out the last drops

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scottish Friends of Palestine | indymedia.org | 17 July 2003 Imagine a concrete wall up to 1000 km long, eight metres high with a round watchtower every 200 metres. Visions of a Stalag come to mind, of a huge prison camp. Such an entity cannot exist, surely, without international condemnation echoing in the halls

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben Young | Speech at a meeting of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in London | 28 June 2003 Speech delivered by Ben Young, Jewish Student (Queen Mary and Westfield College) at a meeting of Jews for Justice for Palestinians in London, 28 June 2003 With thanks to Ben Soffa. It is reasonable to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Lichfield in Paris | Independent | 17 July 2003 Extreme-right and neo-Nazi groups in France have formed an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim alliance on the internet with extremist Jewish groups, a report published yesterday said. Since the French far right is known for its visceral anti-Semitism, the alliance has puzzled and disturbed anti-racism campaigners

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris Bunting | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 4 July 2003 In an incendiary polemic, Baruch Kimmerling attacks the violent policies of Ariel Sharon and argues that failure to see that Israeli and Palestinian fates are intertwined could reduce the Jewish state to a footnote in history. Chris Bunting reports To his enemies,