Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 4 December 2004 University attacked for ‘anti-Israel’ conference London University School of Oriental and African Studies has come under fire for agreeing to host a conference tomorrow at which academics begin a campaign to break links with Israeli universities, significantly increasing an academic boycott of Israel. Jewish groups

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shamai K. Leibowitz | Somerville Divestment Project | November 2004 Shamai Leibowitz is an Israeli human rights lawyer in Tel Aviv who has defended cases before the High Court. He is also an Orthodox Jew, a former tank gunner in the IDF and part of a group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Pauline J. Chang | The Christian Post | 10 November 2004 The Presbyterian Church (USA) may have a list of companies to “divest” from by spring 2005, lest Jewish anti-divestment campaigns complicate plans set during the Nov. 4-6 meeting of the PC(USA)’s Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) team in New York City,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) National convenstion of the National Lawyers Guild, Birmingham, AL | Mengos.net | 24 October 2004 Text of the divestment resolution adopted by the National convenstion of the National Lawyers Guild, on October 24, 2004, in Birmingham, AL. WHEREAS the Israeli government with its illegal occupation and expansionist program in the Palestinian West Bank and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Rockwell | Common Dreams News Center | 18 November 2004 After the election of George Bush, it took less than a week for peace activists to reach a consensus: “Stand and fight.” The U.S. election is simply unacceptable. No president, no matter how large the vote, has any authority to commit war crimes,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tom Wallace | The Electronic Intifada | 16 November 2004 Tension and apprehension filled the air in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts on the night of Monday November 8, 2004. The Somerville Board of Aldermen held a public meeting to consider a non-binding resolution to divest from Israel bonds and from companies who

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Ha’aretz | 15/11/2004 NEW YORK – Special safety precautions were taken in Presbyterian churches throughout the United States on Sunday after leaders received threats that churches would be burned by Monday if they did not demand a reversal of what a letter writer called their “anti-Israel” policy. The Presbyterian church decided

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anglican Church | qumsiyeh.org | 22 September 2004 We, as members of the Anglican Peace and Justice Network, representing 23 Provinces of the worldwide 75,000,000 member Anglican Communion, have visited the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem over these last 8 days, and during that time have been inspired by the faith of the people in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Associated Press | 13 November 2004 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Presbyterian Church (USA) has stepped up security at its headquarters and advised its churches to be on alert after receiving a letter threatening arson attacks because of its policies in the Middle East. The handwritten letter, received Wednesday at the church’s Louisville headquarters, threatened

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scoop | 28 October 2004 Christian Peace Group Supports Divestment from Israel The 10th anniversary assembly of Pax Christi Aotearoa-New Zealand, held in Auckland on 1-2 October, endorsed the Anglican Peace and Justice Networks and Presbyterian Church of the United States in their recent call for divestment in Israel modelled on the popular boycott