From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Interview with Nabil Kassis | Palestine Report, Volume 11 Number 43 | 27 April 2005 This week Palestine Report Online interviews Nabil Kassis, President of Birzeit University, on the boycott of two Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers (AUT). PR: Do you think the boycott initiated by the AUT is a positive step? Kassis: I think it shows awareness on behalf of the AUT of the problems that beset the Palestinian educational system and the problems that teachers here are facing.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonathan Spyer | Haaretz | 22 April 2005 The British Association of University Teachers (AUT) is due today to debate the question of an academic boycott of Israeli universities. The motions to be discussed single out the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa University and Bar-Ilan University for condemnation. In all three cases, specific grievances are cited. The factual basis of each proves, on examination, to be flimsy in the extreme.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) S. Leibowitz | Haaretz | 1 May 2005 As an Israeli who still lives in Israel, I support this boycott. Precisely because I love the people who live here, and preciely because I still believe in the Jewish values of freedom, justice and equality, I want to congratulate the British associaton for taking this courageous step, and hope it will have a "snowball effect". Come to think of it, boycott and excommunication are age-old Jewish concepts.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TERESA WATANABE | Los Angeles Times | 30 April 2005 Proposal By United Church Of Christ Draws Protests From Jewish Community The 1.4 million-member United Church of Christ will vote this summer on whether to divest from certain U.S. companies doing business with Israel as a protest against the Jewish state's occupation of Palestinian territories, church officials said Friday. The measure would single out as possible divestment targets U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stewart Ain and Michele Chabin |The Jewish Week | 29 April 2005 Counter actions possible in wake of targeting of two Israeli universities. In an escalation of tensions between academics in England and Israel over Israeli treatment of Palestinians, the Anti-Defamation League is considering a call for a “counter boycott” of British universities after British university teachers announced a boycott of two Israeli universities, Bar-Ilan and Haifa.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nurit Elhanan-Peled, Translated from English by Mark Marshall | The Occupation Magazine | 28 April 2005 `The looting will start immediately after the evacuation. One will take a window. Another will take a door.` This racist and wicked statement, that was published a few days ago from the mouth of the one who stands at the head of the State of Israel, was intended purely as incitement and was meant to foment hatred and contempt towards those with whom the State of Israel is supposed to make real peace.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Uri Ram | Occupation Magazine | 26 April 2005 The angry responses in Israel to the decision passed by the Association of University Lecturers in Britain to boycott two Israeli universities, Bar Ilan and Haifa, because of their acquiescence with the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, have, as usual, succeeded in diverting attention from the main issue – the occupation, to the secondary issue of the boycott.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling |Times Higher Education Supplement | 29 April 2005 Site Editor's note: Kimmerling's position is typical of the Israeli left. No conceivable atrocity can ever justify doing anything to harm the interestes of academics, and particularly Israeli academics. The Association of University Teachers voted last week to boycott two Israeli universities over their failure to speak out against their Government. Haifa University was accused of restricting the academic freedom of staff members critical of the Government, while Bar Ilan University was named because it has an affiliated college in the occupied West Bank.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Al-Awda Wisconsin | 27 April 2005 (Madison, WI- 04/27/05) – The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (TAUWP) has adopted a resolution that calls on the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents to divest from companies that provide the Israeli Army with weapons, equipment, and supporting systems. TAUWP is a statewide local of the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin representing faculty and academic staff from 25 University of Wisconsin campuses.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Editorial | Haaretz | 27 April 2005 Last week the union of British university lecturers imposed an academic boycott on two Israeli universities, as a means of pressure and punishment for "Israel's war crimes." After a debate inside the British academy, which has gone on since the 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, a compromise was reached and the decision was made to make do with only two Israeli universities.