Category: Boycott & Divestment

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) D. Orr | The Independent | 19 April 2005 If a boycott of Israel is ever to work, it must broaden its appeal, not narrow its ambitions The word “academic”, when attached to words such as purely, strictly or highly, seems to emphasise the supposed irrelevance of the cloistered, intellectual, life. When coupled to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Avnery | Gush Shalom | 26 April 2005 Tel-Aviv, April 26, 2005 To Professor Moshe Kaveh President Bar Ilan University Dear Sir In various media interviews today you expressed anger at the decision of British university lecturers to declare a boycott against the Bar-Ilan University, calling it “an unacceptable mixing of politics into

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Aljazeera.com | 25 April 2005 Two Israeli universities targeted in a boycott by Britain’s biggest teachers union have condemned the decision, calling it shameful and a blow to academic freedom. Bar-Ilan and Haifa university officials said on Monday they did not expect the boycott call by the 40,000-member Association of University Teachers (AUT) to have

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 25 April 2005 The head of the lecturers’ union which last week launched an academic boycott of two Israeli universities has appealed to members not to begin the boycott until they have received advice on how to do so without breaking the law. In her first public comments

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 30 May 2005 Last week, two important developments took place that captured the dilemma facing the Palestinian people. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas went to Washington to meet with American leaders and make his case for firmer American involvement in the dormant Palestinian-Israeli peace-making process; and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oren Ben-Dor | The Independent | 30 May 2005 Driving towards my birthplace of Nahariya in northern Israel, you pass an impressively designed Holocaust memorial, dedicated to “the fighters of the ghettos”. It is difficult not to be touched by its importance and prominence. Three hundred metres further along the same road, lie the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) CELESTE KENNEL-SHANK | Religion Journal | 26 May 2005 (RNS) The United Church of Christ will vote in July on whether to pull church money from U.S. companies involved in constructing Israeli settlements and security measures in Palestinian territories. If approved, the 1.4 million-member church (with a $3 billion investment portfolio) would become the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al Jazeera | May 30, 2005 An anti-Zionist Jewish activist at a meeting in Malaysia called for UN sanctions against Israel for violating the human rights of Palestinians, a news report has said. Uri Davis, who has written books on apartheid and democracy in Israel and the Middle East, said Israeli bans on trade

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stop The Wall Organization | May 30, 2005 On Saturday 21st of May, the annual Nakba Day rally of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign once again drew thousands of supporters into the streets. In pouring rain, protestors marched to Trafalgar Square and denounced Apartheid Israel and its Occupation of Palestine. They demanded an end to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Moti Bassok | Haaretz | June 1, 2005 Universities fear additional attempts to declare boycott of Israel are expected in the near future. Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to lead the campaign against the academic boycott targeting Israeli academic institutions. The international campaign being waged by Israeli universities will focus on the public