Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Will Woodward | The Guardian | 5 May 2003 A university lecturers’ union will debate a call for an academic boycott of Israel at its annual conference in Scarborough this week. The executive of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) is opposing a motion to be put before delegates on Friday by Sue Blackwell,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Amit/Martin Blume | 21 March-9 April 2003 This is the exchange of correspondence between Dr. Daniel Amit and Dr. Martin Blume of Physical Review E regarding the former’s reasons for boycotting his services from Physical Review, the premier journal of physics research. Dr Amit has encouraged spreading his position widely. Sent: Friday, March

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Kay | World Socialist Web Site | 10 April 2003 In response to an escalation of Israeli aggression over the past year, a growing movement has emerged on American campuses opposing the oppression of the Palestinian population. Student groups have held numerous protests at universities throughout the country, and most recently a movement

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jenni Frazer | The Jewish Chronicle | 14 March 2003 Leading British neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield is putting together a high-level delegation of academics to visit Israel later this year, calling the trip her “positive response” to supporters of an academic boycott of Israel. Baroness Greenfield, director of the Royal Institution, confirmed to the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Geoffrey Alderman | The Jewish Chronicle | 14 March 2003 At the end of last month, I travelled to the University of Wales, Swansea, to take part in a debate on what has come to be known as the “academic boycott” of Israel. The event was hosted by the Swansea branch of the Association

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | The Guardian | 15 July 2002 The carnage in the Middle East continues; today a suicide bomber, tomorrow an Israeli strike on Palestinians with helicopters, missiles and tanks. The Israelis continue to invade Palestinian towns and expand illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Ariel Sharon refuses to negotiate

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shahid Alam | Counterpunch | 31 July 2002 In early April 2002, moved by the massacres in Jenin and the wanton destruction of civilian infrastructure in West Bank cities by invading Israeli forces, two British academics, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, circulated a call-posted at www.pjpo.org-for an academic boycott of Israel. This campaign was

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain | The Guardian | 21 December 2002 Bethlehem is a familiar talisman of peace in Christmas festivities, but this year the innocent image is gone, perhaps for ever. Today Bethlehem’s residents are entombed in their houses 24 hours each day. When the Church of the Nativity was besieged for

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | BBC News | 16 August 2002 Plans for Scotland’s Under-21 football team to play a friendly against Israel have triggered an angry response from pro-Palestinian campaigners. Those opposed to the game going ahead have written to the Scottish Football Association (SFA) in protest against the policies of Israel in the Middle

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | CounterPunch | 24 February 2003 “Don’t eat Belgian chocolate,” the Israel consul in Florida ordered the large Jewish community there. In Israel, anti-Belgian curses reached an ear-splitting new crescendo. Miserable Belgium! Mad Belgium! Megalomaniac Belgium! And again and again, Anti-Semitic Belgium! Neo-Nazi Belgium! The Israeli ambassador was, of course, recalled from