Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg and Rory McCarthy | The Guardian | 9 June 2007 British academics’ desire to boycott Israeli universities this week provoked the threat of legal action and counter-boycotts. Will it produce a fully-fledged international crisis? As the pop group Girls Aloud ran through a sound check on the other side of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Assaf Uni and Haim Bior, Haaretz Correspondents | Haaretz | 1 June 2007 BRITAIN – The United Kingdom’s public services union UNISON will consider a proposal for imposing a boycott on Israel during its annual conference in mid-June, in the wake of Wednesday’s decision by a British lecturers union to back a boycott of
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 8 June 2007 The foreign and education ministers are setting up a public relations task force to prepare a public relations campaign against the boycotts of Israel being forged in the United Kingdom. The joint task force will consist of representatives of the two ministries, the Histadrut
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steven Rose | The Independent | 4 June 2007 Academic freedom, it appears, applies to Israelis but not to Palestinians The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 June 2007 The growing boycott movement has put Israeli academe on the defensive, but more is required, says Lisa Taraki On the day that UK academics debated motions to boycott Israel the international media reported on a letter addressed to the Israeli defence minister. It
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Benny Tziper | Haaretz | 4 June 2007 [Translated from original Hebrew by Rann Bar-On.] Last Friday morning I drove to the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Bil’in, the village that has turned into a symbol of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and against the confiscation of Palestinian land by fraudulent Jewish real-estate sharks
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amjad Barham | The Guardian | 24 May 2007 Israeli academics are not standing up for their Palestinian counterparts, and a boycott is the best way forward, says Amjad Barham Recently, Israeli academics have toured the UK to dissuade British academics from supporting a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. The Israelis have made two
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Meikle | The Guardian | 31 May 2007 University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities. Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union in Bournemouth voted by 158 to 99 for “a comprehensive and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | 30 May 2007 For Immediate Release: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the historic decision by the University and College Union (UCU) Congress today to support motions that endorse the logic of academic boycott against Israel, in response to the complicity of the Israeli academy
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Chalcraft | The Guardian | 30 May 2007 An international, non-violent movement supporting divestment, sanctions and boycott of Israel is gathering strength. While progress has been made in Northern Ireland and South Africa, Israel continues to settle and occupy Palestinian land in defiance of international law. The question for British academics is whether
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