Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Jerusalem | The Guardian | 1 December 2003 Israeli academics are threatening to call for an international boycott of their own university heads if admission tests alleged to have curbed the number of Arab students are reintroduced. The heads of the country’s five universities last week announced that they would bring

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 27 November 2003 Israeli academics will set up a new forum to fight the international academic boycott of Israel, the heads of the country’s universities decided at a meeting Thursday with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky. At the meeting, the university presidents warned that the boycott,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sara Leibovich-Dar | Ha’aretz | 20 November 2003 Although they have tried to downplay it, Israeli universities and faculty members are growing increasingly concerned that the worldwide academic boycott will weaken both Israeli science and the peace camp itself. Ten years ago, Dr. Miriam Shlesinger, the current head of the Department of Translation and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alex Sholem | Totally Jewish | 16 October 2003 A British website that barred Israelis from entering one of its competitions has been forced to issue a retraction after receiving a deluge of complaints. In a giveaway running this month, ukhotmovies.com invited visitors to compete to win the top prize of a DVD box

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 September 2003 Polly Curtis visits Manchester, scene of Israel-Palestine rows last year In the Reynold Building at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, freshers’ fair is thronging. The music is ear-bleedingly loud, the salsa society is in full swing and the Tai Kwon Do

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charles Hoover | Ha’aretz | 26 September 2003 International Academic Friends of Israel, fighting a boycott on local universities, names director for new Jerusalem office. “It’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face,” says David Leshnick to characterize attempts in the international scientific community to boycott Israel in the wake of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) F. W. Lancaster (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) and Lorraine Haricombe (Northern Illinois University) | Perspectives on the Profession (Periodical of the Centre for the Study of Ethics for the Profession), Illinois Institute of Technology  From the early 1960s until very recently, scholars in South Africa were subjected to various forms of boycott

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Richard Allen Greene | JTA — The Global Jewish News Service | 7 July 2003 LONDON, July 8 (JTA) — An Oxford University professor could be fired after rejecting a graduate student because he is Israeli. Andrew Wilkie, a professor of pathology, dismissed an application from Amit Duvshani to work in his laboratory in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Oliver | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 An Oxford University professor is facing disciplinary action after rejecting an Israeli student’s application to work with him because he had a “huge problem” with his country’s “abuses on the Palestinians”, it emerged yesterday. Andrew Wilkie, who was last month elected Nuffield professor of pathology,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Julie Henry, Education Correspondent | Daily Telegraph | 29 June 2003 An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his nationality. Andrew Wilkie, the Nuffield professor of pathology and a fellow of Pembroke College, is under investigation after telling Amit Duvshani, a student