Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Trieman | Beliefnet.com Will new church moves toward stopping investment in companies that do business in Israel endanger Christian-Jewish relations? When the Presbyterian Church (USA), the nation’s major Presbyterian body, decided this summer to move toward cutting off investments in select companies that do business with Israel, Jewish groups were caught off guard.
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Khalid Abdalla The story of the Egyptian revolution carries a heavy burden. Its many tales travel across contexts and experience, within Egypt and beyond it, influencing movements and revolutions while building dreams and threatening them. Solidarity fundamentally entails sharing an interpretation of a story. How that story is told and re-told has political and historical implications that are as much
» Read moreAhram Online met with renowned Egyptian-British actor Khalid Abdalla and discussed his varied repertoire as a filmmaker, producer, co-founder of important film initiatives and also as a political activist Nourhan Tewfik , Saturday 26 Dec 2015 “It was a World War I play. We were in a classroom. All the chairs were moved to the side and there was a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | The Independent | 23 April 2005 University lecturers have voted to boycott two of Israel’s eight universities over their alleged complicity with Israeli persecution of Palestinians. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa University and Bar Ilan University, accusing them of colluding in a system of “apartheid”
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis and Matthew Taylor, and Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv | The Guardian | 23 April 2005 A leading union voted yesterday to boycott two Israeli universities which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories. The Association of University Teachers voted to sever links with Haifa
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Aaronovitch | The Observer | 24 April 2005 Last Friday saw two examples of intelligent people behaving in a futile way. The first was the decision by the US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, to seek the death penalty for would-be suicide terrorist, Zacharias Moussaoui. Not only does such a sentence confer on Moussaoui
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | The Independent | 22 April 2005 Lecturers from Britain’s leading universities will cast their votes today in a poll that threatens to split the academic world. They will vote whether to boycott three Israeli universities because of their alleged backing of government action in the occupied Palestinian territories. Union delegates will
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) | Info@BoycottIsrael.ps | 22 April 2005 The Association of University Teachers (AUT) in the UK voted in its Council meeting today to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities and to disseminate to all its chapters our Call for Boycott of Israeli academic institutions. This
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 22 April 2005 Academics have voted to boycott two Israeli universities over their alleged involvement in “illegal activity” in the occupied territories. Members of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) decided to suspend all links with Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities. They were complicit in a system of “apartheid” towards Palestinians, delegates
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 22 April 2005 The woman behind a divisive vote today to boycott Israeli universities has brushed aside criticism of the proposals, saying it is impossible to treat that country’s academics as “normal citizens from a normal state”. Sue Blackwell, a Birmingham lecturer, who is launching her second attempt
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