Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Caroline Davis | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 June 2003 Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel’s membership of the European Union’s biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer’s boycott row said this week. The European Commission confirmed this week that it had renewed its

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oona King in Gaza | The Guardian | 12 June 2003 Oona King – “I have sadly come to the conclusion that, given the scale of the atrocities and collective punishment waged by the Israelis against the Palestinians, I have no choice but to boycott Israeli products. On reflection, whether Jewish or not, you

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Suzanne Goldenberg and Will Woodward | The Guardian | 8 July 2002 Sackings on two obscure journals fuel debate on cooperation with universities. A pair of obscure journals run by a Manchester professor have become the focal point for an angry debate across the international academic community over a boycott of Israeli universities. A

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 A leading campaigner for academic freedom today offered his support to the Oxford don at the centre of a new row over a boycott of Israel. Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University, is facing possible disciplinary action after refusing to consider an

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DESMOND TUTU | Counterpunch | 17 October 2002 The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure– in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Ab | Indymedia South Africa | 18 October 2004 The streets of Johanesburg, Cape Town and Durban reveberated this weekend with cries of “Free Free Palestine”, “Isolate Apartheid Israel”, “Boycott Israel” and “No to Bantustans”, to mark the forthcoming visit of Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to South Africa. Thousands of people

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) RACHEL ZOLL | ctnow.com | 22 October 2004 The idea has floated around for years on the fringes of the Middle East debate: Opponents of Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories should divest from companies doing business there. Now, the concept is gaining ground in the heart of American Protestantism, pitting U.S. Jewish and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel | Palestinian Academics | July 2004 Dear fellow academics, intellectuals and activists: Please find attached a Palestinian call for boycott issued by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. It has the support of nearly sixty of the most prominent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Council for the National Interest | 15 October 2004 The Palestinian Solidarity Movement is meeting October 15-17 at Duke University to discuss divestment strategies, and the lead speaker is Dennis Brutus, the well-known anti-apartheid South African activist who is speaking on the usefulness of divestment in the struggle against oppression and how it helped

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JANINE ZACHARIA | The Jerusalem Post | 17 October 2004 A weekend conference urging divestment from Israel got underway at Duke University on Friday and continued into Saturday with speakers equating Zionism with South African apartheid and some calling for an end to an exclusively Jewish state. The gathering, the fourth organized by the