From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alison Goddard | The Times Higher Education Supplement | 28 February 2003 Colleagues of Basheer Nafi say he “encourages critical thinking about religious issues and academic balance in his students and thus encourages social responsibility”. But last week, the US attorney-general charged him with 50 counts of supporting and financing the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad. The Home Office has yet to receive an extradition request.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) 24 February 2003 In Defense Of The Democratic Rights Of Professor Sami Al-Arian Whereas, there has been a concerted political effort to fire Palestinian American Professor Sami Al-Arian from the University of South Florida and, Whereas, the union, the United Professors Of Florida which is affiliated to the National Education Association has defended their member Professor Sami Al-Arian's democratic rights and, Whereas, using the Patriot Act and other recently passed legislation, the US government has sought to eliminate the democratic rights of Professor Sami Al-Arian and, Whereas, Professor has been a supporter of democratic rights not only in the Middle East but for democratic rights for people in the US and around the world and, Whereas, the US government is seeking to silence political dissidents using the Patriot Act and other repressive legislation and, Whereas, the use of these laws threatens the rights of all working people and all Americans, Therefore be it resolved this body protests the indictment of Professor Sami Al-Arian and we call not only for the removal of this indictment but for opposition to the Patriot Act and other repressive legislation and we will forward this to the United Professors of Florida www.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) RACHEL LA CORTE | The Associated Press | 27 February 2003 TAMPA, Fla. - A Palestinian professor charged with leading the U.S. operations of a Middle Eastern terrorist group was fired Wednesday by the University of South Florida. Sami Al-Arian, who had been suspended since shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, violated university policy, USF president Judy Genshaft said. "Dr. Al-Arian's statements about his activities have been false and misleading and he's failed to meet our high professional standards,"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kurt Nimmo | CounterPunch | 24 February 2003 It's dangerous to be photographed with Bush. It's also dangerous to visit the Bush White House. Sami al-Arian did both of these things. Now he's sweating it out in an FBI hoosegow. In May of 2001 Sami was invited to the White House to attend a political briefing for 160 members of the American Muslim Council. Earlier, while campaigning across his brother's fiefdom in Florida, Dubya was photographed with the al-Arian family.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus | Jewish Chronicle | 1 February 2003 MONA BAKER, the professor who sacked two Israeli academics from private journals she edited, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by her employers, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Ms Baker, professor of translation studies at Umist, removed Professor Gideon Toury of Tel Aviv University and Dr Miriam Shlesinger of Bar-Ilan last year from the editorial boards of two journals she edits and her husband owns, after they had refused her request to resign.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 January 2003 The British university at the centre of a worldwide furore over a boycott of Israel by one of its professors should change its rules to enable it to discipline staff for bringing the institution into disrepute, a confidential report into the affair recommends. The results of an inquiry for the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, passed to EducationGuardian.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lawrence Davidson | C.I.E. | 19 January 2003 (LETTER TO MONA BAKER IN SUPPORT) I have just returned from Israel/Palestine and while there I met with members of the faculty of Birzeit U., Al-Quds U., The Arab-American U. outside of Jenin, Al-Aska U. in Gaza, and Bethlehem U. They feel abandoned by the rest of the world and, with the too few exceptions of people like us, they in fact are.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) From: Mona Baker [mona.baker@umist.ac.uk] Sent: 15 January 2003 20:00 Subject: OPEN LETTER FROM MONA BAKER TO DENISE NEVO OPEN LETTER TO DENISE NEVO (Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Translation Studies) Dear Denise, I hope you will forgive me for responding to the only message I have ever received from you in the form of an Open Letter. These are difficult times, and they have stretched the nerves and loyalties of everyone within our discipline and many outside it.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada | 10 January 2003 Following the January 5 suicide attacks, which killed over twenty people in Tel Aviv, Ariel Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin, announced that Israel would shut down three Palestinian universities, possibly including Bir Zeit, the most prestigious in the West Bank, and academic home to internationally-known Palestinians such as Hanan Ashrawi, and Nablus' Al-Najah University, the largest in the West Bank.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Giles Coren | The Times | 14 December 2002 Professor Mona Baker, the leader of the movement to boycott Israeli academics, is in cahoots with Britain's leading anti-semitic lunatic, David Irving. You did not know this because you do not enjoy, as I do, wandering through the lush vegetation of David Irving's website and marvelling at the strange fruits that grow there. I surf the Irving foam because among the flotsam on the site there are sometimes some bits and bobs about me (if one mentions him in print in any context at all -- which he loves -- you get a little verbal bashing, usually focusing with some jocularity on your surname, if it breaches his stringent race guidelines).