From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Censoring Thought | 14 March 2005 I have prepared a statement to read to you. I would be happy to answer your questions afterwards. Before I begin, however, I want to ascertain that as Professor Katzneslson has informed me, the only complaints that your committee has heard about me are the two complaints that the press reported from my students, namely the complaint by Noah Liben and the complaint by Deena Shanker.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Dissident Voice | 29 March 2005 In the American academy, there is currently an organized campaign by some public figures to vilify prominent researchers and departments that are regarded as “anti-American” or even as “anti-Semitic” because their research and teaching are not in accordance with the views of the recent American administration. Universities are especially at risk if their faculty members are of Arab or -- even “worse” -- of Palestinian origin.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 11 August 2007 The High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition by a group of Palestinian students from Gaza against Israel's policy of barring students from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank, even when there is no evidence that they pose a security threat to the state. The decision was made by a panel of judges chaired by Justice Elyakim Rubinstein.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rebecca Spence | Forward (Jewish Daily) | 1 June 2007 Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to pass a motion imploring its branches to circulate and discuss a Palestinian call for boycott of Israeli academics and universities.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ANNIE SHUPPY |The Chronicle of Higher Education | 26 September 2006 The U.S. State Department has again denied a visa to Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Muslim scholar who gave up a teaching appointment at the University of Notre Dame two years ago after he was first barred from residing and working in the country, the American Civil Liberties Union announced on Monday. The ACLU and several other groups that are parties to a lawsuit on Mr.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dan Glaister | The Guardian | 19 January 2006 It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alexander Joffe & Asaf Romirowsky | The Jerusalem Post | 19 October 2005 The problem of scholars injecting politics into their classroom and published works is an old one. But a powerful new article by Ofira Seliktar demonstrates that Israeli scholars - historians, political scientists, and others - have gone far beyond protesting against their state in these ways. In conjunction with pro-Palestinian and "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rami G. Khouri | The Daily Star | 12 October 2005 Publicly supporting equal rights for Palestinians alongside Israelis has always been a risky venture in the United States, as an American professor who heads the only Middle Eastern studies center at an evangelical American university is discovering these days. The Reverend Donald Wagner, professor and director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at North Park University in Chicago for the past 10 years, has had his tenure appointment blocked and, with two other prominent Palestinian clergymen, is being subjected to a campaign of criticism and vilification in the American and Israeli press.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) MEG LAUGHLIN | St. Petersburg Times Tampa Bay | 7 June 2005 The prosecution tries to link the former USF professor to killings in Israel; the defense says there's no connection. TAMPA - "Israel. Murder. Tampa cell. Pure PIJ." These were the words Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Furr repeated Monday in his opening statement in the federal terrorism trial of former USF professor Sami Al-Arian.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) John-Thor Dahlburg | Los Angeles Times | 7 June 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A lawyer for an ex-university professor facing charges that he supported and helped finance a terrorist group in the Middle East tore into the government's case Monday, claiming that Sami Al-Arian was being prosecuted not for any illegal deeds but for expressing pro-Palestinian views. "This case will be about Dr. Al-Arian's right to speak, your right to hear him and the attempt of the powerful to silence him,"