Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Glenn Kessler | Washington Post | 5 May 2005 Congress imposed the tight restrictions on aid to the Palestinians that President Bush had announced with fanfare in his State of the Union address, possibly dealing a blow to U.S. efforts to support new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In the emergency spending bill that lawmakers

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul de Rooij | Counterpunch | 11 April 2005 “A smear is among the simplest of propaganda techniques. It can take the form of repeated, unapologetic, systematic name-calling, or otherwise implying or asserting that opponents are bad, evil, stupid, untrustworthy, guilty of reprehensible acts, or part of some undesirable category. A smear might be

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jim Lobe | Right Web | 2 March 2005 Daniel Pipes, the founder of the Middle East Forum and an anti-Islamist activist, is working to organize a new policy institute, which will be called the Anti-Islamist Institute (AII). According to Pipes, “In the long term … the legal activities of Islamists pose as much

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haaretz | 31 March 2005 After half a century of reticence and recrimination, Israel on Wednesday honored nine Egyptian Jews recruited as agents-provocateur in what became one of the worst intelligence bungles in the country’s history. Israel was at war with Egypt when it hatched a plan in 1954 to ruin its rapprochement with

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Diana Zimmerman and Kim Lamberty | Christian Peacemaker Team | 23 March 2005 Sheep are ill and dying on the day following the discovery of poison pellets on the land outside the Palestinian town of At-Tuwani adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Havot Ma’on. Two sheep are dead and others are ill.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Right2Education Campaign | Birzeit University, Palestine | 8 March 2005 Israel forcibly removed four Palestinian students from their studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank and illegally deported them to the Gaza Strip last November. The four Gazan students were not accused of any offence and their forced expulsion is being seen as

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hugh Muir | The Guardian | 4 March 2005 Ken Livingstone has reignited his dispute with Britain’s Jewish leaders by launching a provocative attack on the “war criminal” Ariel Sharon. In a riposte to criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the London mayor accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and said its

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London | The Guardian | 4 March 2004 Not to speak out against this injustice would not only be wrong. It would ignore the threat it poses to us all. Racism is a uniquely reactionary ideology, used to justify the greatest crimes in history – the slave trade, the extermination

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amira Hass | Haaretz | 21 February 2005 The Madama village’s spring was deliberately contaminated and its water supply system was sabotaged 10 days ago, village council head Ayed Kamal said Sunday. This is the sixth time in the past three years that the spring, the only source of water of the village’s 1,700

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amira Haas | Haaretz | 17 February 2005 One can see it as a private problem of four Gazan students – Bashar Abu Shahla, Walid Mahna, Mohammed Matar and Bashar Abu Salim. The four were about to complete their studies at the engineering department of Bir Zeit University this year. They were supposed to