Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andy Beckett | The Guardian | December 12, 2002 This summer, a little-known Manchester academic caused an international storm when she sacked two Israeli scholars from the editorial board of her journal. But was it an isolated freelance protest – or the first skirmish in a wider academic boycott? Until a few months ago,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steven Rose | The Guardian | 27 May 2004 You finish teaching the class on your own campus, and drive to another, six miles away, to give a physiology course. A normal enough activity for a university teacher. Except that en route you are stopped by heavily armed soldiers. You explain where you are

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ur Shlonsky | The Nation | 6 March 2003 Geneva, Switzerland I would like to respond to Neve Gordon’s piece, “Against the Israeli Academic Boycott” (Feb. 14). Like Gordon, I am opposed to an academic boycott of Israeli universities precisely because it singles out academia. Unlike Gordon, however, I don’t see any valid justification

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Martin Kramer | Frontpage Mag | 5 April 2004 The habitual academic petition-signers against Israel are out in force, in a letter to Hebrew University president Menachem Magidor. They charge that Israel “makes it difficult or impossible for Palestinian teachers and students to reach their universities,” and that Israeli troops are responsible for “harassment,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 30 March 2004 Israel’s academic leaders should take a public stand against their government’s violations of academic freedom at Palestinian universities in the occupied territories, say more than 300 signatories to an open letter that has been published online. But the man to whom the letter

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Counterpunch | 10 May 2002 The recent proposals to impose sanctions on the Israeli academy have caused a great deal of controversy in the US, in Europe to some extent, and of course within Israel itself. Some have argued that collective boycotts are often the first sign of fascist and anti-liberal

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 25 March 2004 Leading advocates of an academic boycott of Israel have stepped up their campaign calling for an “outing” of Israeli universities which support their government’s policy on the occupied territories. Nearly 300 academics from around the world have published an open letter calling for leaders of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Gideon Levy | Ha’aretz Daily | 11 January 2004 Perhaps, after all, the world will save Israel from itself. Perhaps Israel’s real friends will increase the pressure on the government. Perhaps they will understand that, even in Israel, external pressure is not always bad, because it may be the last chance to bring Israel

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helena Flusfeder, Jerusalem | Times Higher Education Supplement | 5 December 2003 Israeli academics are to set up a forum to fight the international academic boycott of Israeli institutions, the heads of the country’s universities decided this week at a meeting with Natan Scharansky, minister for diaspora affairs. Hebrew University president Menachem Magidor suggested

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRMEP) | IRMEP | 30 June 2003 The U.S. share of world merchandise exports to the Arab Middle East slid from 18% in 1997 to 13% in 2001. This occurred during import demand growth averaging 1% per year and voracious demand for high value-added capital goods among Arab