Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John-Thor Dahlburg | Los Angeles Times | 7 June 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A lawyer for an ex-university professor facing charges that he supported and helped finance a terrorist group in the Middle East tore into the government’s case Monday, claiming that Sami Al-Arian was being prosecuted not for any illegal deeds but for
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nicole Colson | The Socialist Worker, Page 2 | 10 June 2005 After more than two years in prison–much of it spent in solitary confinement–former University of South Florida professor and political activist Sami Al-Arian finally went on trial in Tampa, Fla., this week. There’s little chance, however, that Al-Arian will be able to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | CounterPunch | 03 June 2005 Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 03 June 2005 Moves by the US intelligence agency to place trainee spies secretly in university anthropology departments have sparked an international outcry in the discipline, writes Phil Baty. Anthropologists in the UK and elsewhere fear that the exercise by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) David Green | Znet | 15 May 2005 It has become obvious during the course of this academic year (2004-05)—if it was not already—that campus advocacy of Zionist ideology and Israeli state interests is shamelessly repressive of open and respectful discourse based on high standards of evidence, argument, and morality. This repression targets basic
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Vinay Lal | Economic and Political Weekly | 7 May 2005 One element of the present dominant conservative consensus in America is aimed at rescuing the university from the nay-sayers, radicals, communists and relativists who are alleged to have taken over the American university and subverted its charter of academic freedom. There is already
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Sutherland | The Guardian | 11 May 2005 Sue Blackwell is the scholar behind the AUT’s academic boycott of two Israeli universities. When not draping herself in the Palestinian flag she works in the little-known field of corpus studies. But is her research any good, asks John Sutherland Fame, as Eng-Lit academics will
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ben-Dror Yemini (translated from Hebrew original) | Ma’ariv | 29 April 2005 Who was the author of the following: “Transfer is the official policy of an Israeli academic institution… transfer appeared as a proposed strategy submitted to the government by senior Labour Party ministers… transfer is openly supported by professors and media commentators. Few
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Meron Rapoport (interview with Ilan Pappe) | Haaretz | 6 May 2005 The shock wave that hit Israeli academia last week, in wake of the boycott declared by Britain’s Association of University Teachers (AUT) against Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities, found Dr. Ilan Pappe, the Israeli protagonist in the whole uproar, on a trip to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ariel Segal Ma’ariv (translated from the Hebrew original) | Maariv | 29 April 2005 Every year, on the eve of Passover, a cloud would hang over the festivities of the house of Israel in all its dispersions. Lunacy, cruelty comprised of the basest human drives found vent in the blood libels woven against our
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