Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 26 February 2003 A distinguished pro-Israeli Jewish academic will tonight come face to face with the author of an academic boycott of Israel in an attempt to settle a bitterly contested issue that has divided academia. Professor Geoffrey Alderman, vice-president of academic affairs at the American InterContinental University

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Monique Chemillier-Gendreau | Le Monde | February 14, 2003 The affair of the “boycott of Israeli universities” supposedly declared by the administrative council of the University of Paris-VI (Pierre-et-Marie-Curie) in December 2002 was the subject of serious high stakes controversy which it is imperative to clarify. Calls to criticise this position were circulated and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Neve Gordon | The Nation | 14 February 2003 “Among the Judenrat wannabes is your old friend and mine, Neve Gordon,” wrote a Haifa University professor in one of his articles. “Gordon,” the professor continued, “is a fanatic anti-Semite from the monochromatic (Red) Department of Politics at Ben-Gurion University.” The contemptuous adjectives did not,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andrew Jakubowicz | Sydney Morning Herald | 8 February 2003 Should a country’s intelligentsia be ostracised because of their government’s actions? Andrew Jakubowicz examines the international call by academics to boycott their Israeli colleagues. Every morning my computer opens with two email lists – one, from a colleague in Beirut, recounts the latest horrors

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Hasse | Ha’aretz | 6 February 2003 An Oxford bookshop which is boycotting Israeli publishers is behaving in a “totalitarian” way equivalent to burning books, says a leading Californian publisher of New Age books. Jo-Ann Deck, publisher for The Crossing Press in Berkley, California, describes the ban on Israeli publishers recently issued by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Electronic Intifada | 4 February 2003 In April 2002, following the Israel’s “operation” in Jenin, first calls for institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities appeared in England and in France. The British petition called to freeze European Union contracts with Israeli university as long as Israel continues its present policy. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amina Elbendary | Al-Ahram Weekly | 27 January 2003 As the academic and cultural boycott of Israel gains momentum Amina Elbendary meets Mona Baker, one supporter whose position has excited vitriolic attacks. Atrocities committed against the Palestinian people have reached levels that many in the West believe can no longer be tolerated or condoned,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yahia Abu Zakaria | Palestine Chronicle | January 20, 2003 STOCKHOLM – A group of Swedish luminaries and public figures called for a boycott of Israeli goods produced in occupied Palestinian territories, in a show of protest at the Jewish state’s policy of continued aggressions against the innocent Palestinians. In an article published in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Foggo and Josie Clarke | Daily Telegraph | 15 December 2002 The development of life-saving new medical treatments could be under threat because of the British boycott of Israeli academics, leading scientists and research organisations are warning. Baroness Greenfield, the eminent neurobiologist and the director of the Royal Institution, the oldest independent research

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andy Beckett and Ewen MacAskill | The Guardian | 12 December 2002 Evidence is growing that a British boycott of Israeli academics is gathering pace. British academics have delivered a series of snubs to their Israeli counterparts since the idea of a boycott first gained ground in the spring. In interviews with the Guardian,