Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Genug | NYC Indeymedia | May 22, 2005 A group of Jewish community human rights activists descended in protest on a highly-touted rally today featuring Israeli PM Ariel Sharon. Crying “Stop the mishegos [craziness], end the occupation!” the activists asked the crowd of executives of major Jewish organizations: “which of you will represent the
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From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Document prepared by Mona Baker The academic boycott is part of a comprehensive civil society programme of boycott and divestment aimed at exerting international pressure on Israel . Some colleagues who support an economic boycott of Israel find the idea of an academic boycott unacceptable, for various reasons. Some of these reasons are addressed
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Translation is a matter of intercultural communication, yes. But, as has been widely demonstrated in recent years, it also involves questions of power relations, and of forms of domination. It cannot therefore avoid political issues, or questions about its own links to current forms of power. Robert Young, Postcolonial Theorist, University of Oxford Since
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) To fully understand the reasons for the growing campaign of boycott of Israeli institutions, as well as my own position, it helps to know something about the history of the conflict. You might like to consult some sources by renowned Israeli scholars, for example Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians (Routledge, 2006), and
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mona Baker | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference (London) | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Abstract. The debate on the boycott of Israeli academic institutions has been dominated from the start by the controversy over the distinction between institutions and individuals. Numerous supporters of the boycott have argued either for excluding from
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 A PDF of Omar Barghouti’s paper is available here. A French translation available here.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] When I first heard of the initiative to collect signatures for a boycott petition (initiated by Hillary and Stephen Rose in London) I did not hesitate and added my name. I was also convinced that the hundred to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] We are here today at SOAS to set in train nothing less than an international boycott movement of historic significance. The size and difficulties of the task we have set ourselves, and the bitterness of our enemies are
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John Docker | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] I would first like to express my pleasure to the conference organizers for inviting me to come to London from Australia. It is an honour to be here. It is also a great pleasure to see again Hilary
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Haim Bresheeth | Resisting Israeli Apartheid conference | 5 December 2004 [Note: French translation available here.] Much energy is spent unnecessarily, comparing the Apartheid regime in South Africa and the State of Israel, in order to equate the two and make a boycott acceptable. In my view there is no need for this comparison
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