From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ruth Gledhill | Times Online | May 28, 2005 THE Anglican Church is to consider a report calling for it to dispose of its holdings in companies doing business with Israelis who “support the occupation of Palestinian lands”. The report calling for disinvestment is to be debated by the worldwide Anglican Church in Nottingham on June 22. It mirrors a programme already begun by the Presbyterian Church in the US.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) TOUFIC HADDAD | Counterpunch | 28/30 May 2005 I am not in a position to comment upon the details of what took place in England with regards to the outcome of the 26 May special vote within the Association of University Teachers, and its result of rolling back a previous resolution calling for a selective boycott against Bar Ilan and Haifa Universities. Nor do I wish to engage in the propriety of the boycott itself, especially when there have already been sufficient articles written explaining why indeed a boycott against these institutions is necessary the most convincing of which have actually emerged from Israeli academic and activist circles.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) The Guardian | May 26, 2005 In 1972, before the boycott, I was invited to speak on higher education in South Africa. I went, despite misgivings about going to a country where I could not even sit on a bus with my adopted son, because I was invited by academics who wanted to change the system. I felt the visit did help the liberal academics in a small way to continue to work towards changing their society, but it would not have done so if I had been talking about science unless I had also been able to talk about the inhumanity of apartheid.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chris McGreal in Ariel | The Guardian | 26 May 2005 "If you're going to talk about occupation, England occupied countries throughout history, and didn't the English open universities? And didn't it help the local population?" - Leonid Greenblatt, maths lecturer at College of Judea and Samaria Union to revisit sanctions vote after claims of anti-semitism The College of Judea and Samaria, occupying a hilltop in the Jewish settlement of Ariel, is reaping the benefits of the British academic boycott.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liz Ford |The Guardian | 26 May 2005 Members of the Association of University Teachers are meeting in London today to vote for a second time on whether to boycott Israeli universities. The AUT caused uproar around the world when its members voted to boycott Bar-Ilan and Haifa Universities at its conference last month. The institutions are accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories, something both have strenuously denied.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) OREN BEN-DOR | The Independent | 26 May 2005 Sir: At its meeting on 26 May the AUT should extend its boycott to include all Israeli universities. These universities persistently marginalise the debate about Zionist crimes, by denying sufficient resources and opportunities for it to enter the public discourse in Israel. A proper academic platform would enable debating the monopoly that the Shoah (Hebrew, "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain | The Guardian | 25 May 2005 The racist and colonial policies echo apartheid, and call for a similar response Last October, 13-year-old Iman al-Hams was shot and wounded by an Israeli army unit in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, despite being identified as a little girl, and wearing a school uniform. Iman was machine-gunned by the unit's commander.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yehudith Harel | Occupation Magazine | 24 May 2005 For me as an Israeli, supporting the academic boycott is not a difficult matter at all. Maybe I am a simpleton and can`t see the whole picture, but for me, as an anti occupation activist, supporting the boycott and calling for its support is really a very simple matter. Israel is continuing to commit war crimes in the occupied territories and sometimes even crimes against humanity.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | Electronic Intifada | May 25, 2005 During a press conference held at Birzeit University's Media Institute on May 25, 2005, the Federation of Unions of Palestinian Universities' Professors and Employees, Birzeit University Employees Union and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), together stated their support for the courageous decision taken by the Association of University Teachers in the United Kingdom (AUT), on 22 April 2005, to boycott Haifa and Bar Ilan Universities in Israel as institutions complicit in the illegal and violent occupation of Palestinian land.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Carmela Armanios | The Palestine Chronicle | 22 May 2005 "'Are the Israeli 'racist and colonial policies' similar to those of apartheid South Africa?' As a Mathematician, I believe in applying logic to every problem we face: social, political, administrative or any other. When arguments get entangled with relevant and irrelevant claims, one has to stop and think logically about the problem. After the AUT decision to boycott two Israeli universities for their complicity in sustaining the occupation and oppression, many published articles questioned: Is this a justified act?