Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Muslim Association of Great Britain | 3 March 2003 Friends, colleagues, students and readers of Dr. Basheer Musa Nafi’ have been dismayed by the recent allegations made by U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft who associated the Palestinian London-based academic with terrorism. In a sensational and highly inflammatory presentation the Attorney General made unfounded and unsubstantiated

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Goddard | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 28 February 2003 Colleagues of Basheer Nafi say he “encourages critical thinking about religious issues and academic balance in his students and thus encourages social responsibility”. But last week, the US attorney-general charged him with 50 counts of supporting and financing the Palestinian terrorist group

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) 24 February 2003 In Defense Of The Democratic Rights Of Professor Sami Al-Arian Whereas, there has been a concerted political effort to fire Palestinian American Professor Sami Al-Arian from the University of South Florida and, Whereas, the union, the United Professors Of Florida which is affiliated to the National Education Association has defended their

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) RACHEL LA CORTE | The Associated Press | 27 February 2003 TAMPA, Fla. – A Palestinian professor charged with leading the U.S. operations of a Middle Eastern terrorist group was fired Wednesday by the University of South Florida. Sami Al-Arian, who had been suspended since shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, violated university policy,

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kurt Nimmo | CounterPunch | 24 February 2003 It’s dangerous to be photographed with Bush. It’s also dangerous to visit the Bush White House. Sami al-Arian did both of these things. Now he’s sweating it out in an FBI hoosegow. In May of 2001 Sami was invited to the White House to attend a

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus | Jewish Chronicle | 1 February 2003 MONA BAKER, the professor who sacked two Israeli academics from private journals she edited, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by her employers, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Ms Baker, professor of translation studies at Umist, removed Professor Gideon Toury of

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 January 2003 The British university at the centre of a worldwide furore over a boycott of Israel by one of its professors should change its rules to enable it to discipline staff for bringing the institution into disrepute, a confidential report into the affair recommends. The results

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | C.I.E. | 19 January 2003 (LETTER TO MONA BAKER IN SUPPORT) I have just returned from Israel/Palestine and while there I met with members of the faculty of Birzeit U., Al-Quds U., The Arab-American U. outside of Jenin, Al-Aska U. in Gaza, and Bethlehem U. They feel abandoned by the rest

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) From: Mona Baker [mona.baker@umist.ac.uk] Sent: 15 January 2003 20:00 Subject: OPEN LETTER FROM MONA BAKER TO DENISE NEVO OPEN LETTER TO DENISE NEVO (Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Translation Studies) Dear Denise, I hope you will forgive me for responding to the only message I have ever received from you in the form

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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada | 10 January 2003 Following the January 5 suicide attacks, which killed over twenty people in Tel Aviv, Ariel Sharon’s spokesman, Raanan Gissin, announced that Israel would shut down three Palestinian universities, possibly including Bir Zeit, the most prestigious in the West Bank, and academic home to internationally-known Palestinians

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