From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Associated Press | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 The U.S. Episcopal Church, considering a review of investments in companies that do business with Israel, said on Thursday a high-level fact-finding team came back deeply disturbed after visiting the West Bank and nearby areas. "Israel has a right to defend itself. But it appears that, in the name of security, injustices are being done to the Palestinians that amount to collective punishment,"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jeffrey Blankfort | Left Curve/Dissident Voice | 25 May 2005 "In an article in the New York Times (April 19, 2003), reporter Emily Eakin tells the story of a University of Chicago confab called to assess theory's fate. At a session attended by a bevy of humanities superstars, a student asked: What good is theory if, he said, 'we concede in fact how much more important the actions of Noam Chomsky are in the world than all the writings of critical theorists combined.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hilary Rose and Steven Rose | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 May 2005 The AUT boycott is part of a tradition of non-violent protest, argue Hilary Rose and Steven Rose Just 50 years ago, six years after the call from the African National Congress, 496 British academics published a letter advocating the boycott of South African universities as an expression of solidarity with two anti-apartheid academics served with banning orders by the supremacist regime.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 13 May 2005 Education Minister Limor Livnat slammed Dr. Ilan Pappe, a Haifa University historian, on Thursday for supporting the academic boycott on Israel imposed by Britain's Association of University Teachers (AUT). She said it is permissible to criticize, but not to undermine the Jewish state's right to exist. "No one may approach our enemies and ask them to boycott,"
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dennis Brutus | International Socialist Review, Issue 41 | May 2005 Since the Sixties until 1994 I have dedicated most of my time - apart from a spell on Robben Island Prison - to promote and enforce the boycott of Apartheid South Africa. I have no doubt that international solidarity, particularly in the form of the boycott campaign, contributed to change in South Africa. Despite the political changes in South Africa, Apartheid lives on.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) LIZETTE ALVAREZ | The New York Times | 8 May 2005 LONDON, May 7 - Acting in response to an appeal by 60 Palestinian organizations, Britain's leading higher education union has voted to boycott two Israeli universities. The boycott, which has prompted outrage in Israel, the United States and Britain, would bar Israeli faculty members at Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University from taking part in academic conferences or joint research with their British colleagues.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilan Pappe | 7 May 2005 The AUT’s decision to reconsider its motions on the academic boycott of Israel seems to confuse procedure and principle. I am not a trade union activist, neither am I a British citizen, but I understand there may – or may not – have been procedural and even tactical errors in the way the decision was taken. Either way, these issues cannot be the focus of the debate over sanctions and boycott.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dr. Yuval Yonai, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Letter to Rector and Staff of Haifa University | April 2005 To Professor Ben-Arzi, University Rector Haifa University Staff Re: Severe Inaccuracies in the University’s Response to the AUT Decision Dear Ms. Whintman, I wish to protest on the many inaccuracies that have been inserted into the university’s position in regard to the AUT boycott decision.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ruth Sinai | Haaretz | 6 May 2005 The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment has prohibited a Haifa bookstore from importing books printed in Lebanon and Syria, counter to a policy followed for many years that permitted such imports. The head of the ministry's Wood, Paper, and Print Department, Shmuel Nahmias, sent a letter this week to the Kol-Bo bookstore stating that importing products from Syria and Lebanon violates a law called the Ordinance against Trade with the enemy.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart, translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall. |Yediot Aharonot | 4 May 2005 A boycott decision, like that passed by Britain's Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli universities, naturally raises a hue and cry among Israelis. Why us? And why now, 'just when negotiations with the Palestinians might be renewed'? It may be worthwhile, however, to consider how the world perceives us.