Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Basem L. Ra’ad | Al Quds University Web Site | March 2003 To understand the current hardships of Al Quds University and other Palestinian educational institutions, it is necessary to explore the geography of Israeli occupation. This geography shows the real colour of the degradation to which people are subjected and the effects of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liel Leibovitz – Staff Writer | The Jewish Week | 29 October 2004 Documentary alleging anti-Israel bias by professors countered by many on campus. Where does open debate end and intimidation begin? When news broke last week of the existence of a new film allegedly exposing anti-Israeli bias at Columbia University, the campus was

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Electronic Intifada | 3 November 2004 The recent controversy elicited by the propaganda film “Columbia Unbecoming,” a film funded and produced by a Boston-based pro-Israel organization, is the latest salvo in a campaign of intimidation of Jewish and non-Jewish professors who criticize Israel. This witch-hunt aims to stifle pluralism, academic freedom,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Mohamed Elmasry | Dr. Mohamed Elmasry | 2 November 2004 (This op-ed was accepted for publication by one Canadian newspaper, but the management turned it down.) On October 19, four Canadians willingly entered a television studio and found themselves in a media minefield. I was one of them. We gathered in good faith,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amiram Barkat, Haaretz Correspondent | Ha’aretz | 31 October 2004 Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, said in an interview Friday that he asked that the university provost investigate accusations charging that a university professor allegedly expressed anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic views in class and displayed a hostility toward Israeli and Jewish students. he said professor

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) JACOB GERSHMAN | The New York Sun | 26 October 2004 A British professor who caused an international uproar after she fired two scholars because they were Israeli urged academics to sign a letter in support of a Columbia University professor, Joseph Massad, who she believes is under attack by the “pro-Israel lobby.” A

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PCHR Press Release | Palestine Centre for Human Rights | 23 October 2004 PCHR remains gravely concerned that hundreds of students from the Gaza Strip have not been able to travel to attend their universities abroad, due to the prohibition on travel of Palestinians who are aged between 18 and 35 by Israeli Occupying

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ted Honderich | Ted Honderich Web Site | October 2004 At the Edinburgh Festival Ted Honderich gave a lecture that included moral support for the Palestinians in their struggle against neo-Zionism — the enlarging of the state of Israel beyond its 1967 borders, with what that has entailed and will entail for the Palestinians.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Daily News | 21 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this Editorial. Joseph Massad is an articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward Said in the making. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | The New York Sun | 22 October 2004 [Comment by site editor, Mona Baker: Don’t believe the typical Zionist lies expressed in this article. Joseph Massad is an extremely well educated, articulate defender of Palestinian rights. A man of dazzling scholarship, genuine commitment to peace with justice, and great integrity. A potential Edward