From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Neumann | CounterPunch | 7 December 2002 Daniel Pipes waves Old Glory with an air of menace. He writes stuff like "Profs Who Hate America". He names names and asks, "Why do American academics so often despise their own country while finding excuses for repressive and dangerous regimes?" These profs, he tells us, "consider the United States (not Iraq) the problem". He's much too smooth to actually call them unpatriotic.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kristin McNeil | The Nation | 11 November 2002 The year since Congress passed the USA Patriot Act has brought an ever-growing enemies list from our nation's thought police. First there was Senator Joseph Lieberman and Lynne Cheney's American Council of Trustees and Alumni report unveiled last November--"Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It." The forty-three- page document purports to advocate the preservation of academic freedom and dissent while being all about suppressing both when the views expressed conflict with blind support for US foreign policy In attempting to smear dozens of "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Pipes | New York Post | 15 November 2002 AMERICANS broadly agree on two facts about the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq: its brutality and the danger it poses to themselves, especially the danger of nuclear attack. Disagreement arises primarily over what to do: Take out the regime now? Give Baghdad another chance? Follow the United Nations' lead? Visit an American university, however, and you'll often enter a topsy-turvy world in which professors consider the United States (not Iraq) the problem and oil (not nukes) the issue.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Francis Elliott and Catherine Milner |The Sunday Telegraph | 17 November 2002 Tony Blair has told Britain's Chief Rabbi that he will "do anything necessary" to stop the academic boycott of Israeli scholars at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist). The Prime Minister told Jonathan Sacks during a private meeting in Downing Street that he was "appalled" by evidence of discrimination on British university campuses, according to his aides.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 November 2002 The university should stop hounding Mona Baker and defend scholarly freedom, say Michael Cohen and Colwyn Williamson. Translation studies is a discipline that does not normally attract attention, but Mona Baker, a professor at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, has been thrust into the limelight. She was denounced by public figures ranging from the novelist Howard Jacobson to Estelle Morris, the former secretary of state for education, and the "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Helen Jacobus and Eric Silver | The Jewish Chronicle | 1 November 2002 The Board of Deputies said this week it was considering calling for a boycott by British academics of a Manchester-based publisher which is refusing to supply its specialist publications to Israeli universities. St Jerome Publishing, run by Ken Baker, has refused to fulfil an order from Bar-Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, in protest against the Israeli government's policies towards the Palestinians.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Relly Sa'ar | Haaretz Daily | 25 October 2002 The British academic publisher St. Jerome Publishing has informed Bar-Ilan University that it will no longer sell books and periodicials to the school due to Israel's activities in the territories. This is the second time that St. Jerome, a highly regarded Manchester-based publisher that specializes in translation studies and cross-cultural communications, has been involved in an academic boycott against Israel.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) KATE GALBRAITH | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 18 October 2002 The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in England, is investigating a professor who sent a virulently anti-Israel e-mail message to an American academic that apparently portrayed Israel as the "mirror image of Nazism." The professor has apologized for the message. Michael L. Sinnott, a professor of paper science at Umist, wrote in an e-mail message to Stephen J.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lucy Proctor | Sudent Direct | 30 September 2002 UMIST has launched an enquiry into the actions of lecturer Mona Baker following her decision over the summer to dismiss two Israeli academics from her translations journal. The action was taken after the lecturer re-ignited the Palestine-Israel rift by axing writers Miriam Schlesinger and Gideon Toury from her journal as part of an academic boycott against Israeli universities.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Sacker | Student Direct | 30 September 2002 As Jewish students at Manchester, our initial concern is to where such actions will lead, and what effect they will have on Jewish students not only on the UMIST campus, but across all four Manchester campuses as well as nationally. Will the pursuit of lecturers for simply being Israeli lead to a pursuit of Jewish students who are openly Zionist?