From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Lisa Taraki | Znet Magazine | 14 April 2005 Some of the most committed Israeli opponents of their state's illegal military occupation of the Palestinian territories have recently expressed serious reservations about, if not strident opposition to, the Palestinian call for boycott** of Israel's academic and cultural institutions. We think that their concerns are worth addressing. Almost all of the publicized reservations we have seen are prefaced with moral support for the right of Palestinians to resist the occupation -- non-violently, most would write -- even by calling for boycotts to achieve that goal.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 6 April 2005 The leading union of British lecturers may boycott Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday. The Association of University Teachers' annual council, which convenes on April 20, will debate whether to boycott three of Israel's eight universities - the University of Haifa, Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem - over their alleged complicity with the government's policies on the territories, the paper wrote.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 5 April 2005 The campaign by some academics against Israeli universites will intensify at the Association of University Teachers' annual council this month. Polly Curtis reports Every day, all over the world, thousands of bundles of research grant applications make their way by airmail from author to funding council to academic reviewer and back again. Some are successful, while others, frustratingly, are not.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 5 April 2005 State's policy in occupied territories fuels union debate. Israeli academics who refuse to condemn their government's actions in the occupied territories risk a boycott by the UK's leading lecturers' union. The Association of University Teachers' annual council, which begins on April 20 in Eastbourne, will also debate whether to boycott three of Israel's eight universities - Haifa University, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem - over their alleged complicity with the government's policies on the Palestinian territories.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Palestinian Organisations | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) | 27 March 2005 Important Letter from Palestinian Organisations to London School of Economics: Professor Mary Kaldor Professor David Held Co-Directors Centre for the Study of Global Governance London School of Economics 27 March 2005 Dear Professors Kaldor and Held, We are writing to you to voice our profound concern about a project for which your Centre has provided support, mainly through the administration of the Irfan Ali Mowjee Memorial Award and the partnership with Growing Sustainable Peace, the Jerusalem-based organisation sponsoring the project.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE | Associated Press/Yahoo | 23 March 2005 SEATTLE - A mutual fund company that invests only in businesses it deems socially responsible has dropped Starbucks Corp., citing the coffee giant's launch of a java liqueur with whiskey maker Jim Beam. Pax World Funds, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based fund family, steers clear of companies involved in defense or weapons, tobacco, liquor or gambling. It sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks worth an estimated $23.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign | March 2005 Boycott the Ireland-Israel football matches On 26 March 2005, Ireland is due to play Israel in Tel Aviv, as part of the 2006 World Cup Qualifiers. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), supported by the Movement against Israeli Apartheid, is calling on the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and on Irish players and supporters to boycott this match in protest against Israel's continued refusal to respect Palestinian rights and International law.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shamai Leibowitz |The Nation | March 15, 2005 The assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has led to an explosion of "people power" in the streets of Beirut, in which hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens have called for an end to Syria's occupation of their land. These calls have been celebrated and echoed in other capitals, and nowhere more so than in Washington.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | Union of Al-Quds University Teachers and Employees | March 2005 Towards the end of the first semester of the academic year 2004-2005, the Union of Teachers and Employees of Al-Quds University conducted a survey of opinions of a representative sample of teachers and employees regarding normalization with Israeli academic institutions, particularly since joint Palestinian-Israeli academic collaboration has been the source of considerable controversy among Palestinian and international academics.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Omar Barghouti and Jacqueline Sfeir | The Electronic Intifada | 3 March 2005 AN OPEN LETTER TO UNESCO Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO UNESCO 7, Place de Fontenoy 75352 PARIS 07 SP, France 2 March 2005 Dear Mr. Matsuura, On behalf of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), we are writing to express our deep concern about UNESCO's recent support for establishing a joint Palestinian-Israeli scientific organization, which in our view marks a serious setback to the cause of just peace in Palestine.