Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) VIJAY PRASHAD | Counterpunch | 13 November 2003 In mid-October, my email in-box began to receive forwards from Michael Bednar, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Texas, Austin. The subject line suggested that it was an email joke: “Congress moves to regulate postcolonial studies.” Thanks to the vigilance

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robert Fisk | CounterPunch/Independent | 4 November 2003 Is “Palestinian” now just a dirty word? Or is “Arab” the dirty word? Let’s start with the late Edward Said, the brilliant and passionate Palestinian-American academic who wrote–among many other books–Orientalism, the ground-breaking work which first explored our imperial Western fantasies about the Middle East. After

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Sarah Cassidy | Independent | 28 October 2003 An Oxford University professor who rejected a student because he was Israeli was suspended from the university yesterday and ordered to undergo equal opportunities training. In an unusual public statement spelling out the results of disciplinary proceedings, the university said Andrew Wilkie, an eminent pathology professor,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) AFP/Aljazeera | Aljazeera | 28 October 2003 One of Britain’s most prestigious centres of learning has suspended a professor who rejected an Israeli student’s application, reportedly because of the Jewish state’s mistreatment of Palestinians. The University of Oxford on Monday suspended Andrew Wilkie without pay for two months after he told Amit Duvshani there

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arthur Neslen | Aljazeera | 29 October 2003 The decision by Oxford University to suspend a professor without pay for two months for refusing to teach a former Israeli soldier has ratcheted up campus tensions and may spark an academic rebellion. Andrew Wilkie, a pathology expert at the prestigious Pembroke College, was suspended on

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