From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 29 May 2007 Academics are being urged to reject calls from colleagues for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The University and Colleges Union is debating a motion that academics should consider the "moral implications" of links with Israeli universities. The proposal condemns Israel for its "denial of educational rights" for Palestinians, citing invasions, curfews, checkpoints and arrests. But Sally Hunt, UCU's new general secretary, criticised the demands.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Halle | Haaretz | 17 May 2007 Prof. Miriam Shlesinger, the translation scholar from Bar-Ilan University who was fired from the board of a British journal for being Israeli, sees herself as one of the lucky ones. "At least I had the luxury of knowing why I was being boycotted," she says, recalling the e-mail she received in May 2002 from erstwhile friend Prof.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charlotte Halle | Haaretz | 4 May 2007 A delegation of Israeli academics will head to the U.K. later this month in a bid to fight a proposed boycott of Israeli universities by British academics. Seven academics from six Israeli universities plan to meet with members of the 120,000-strong union ahead of its vote to boycott Israeli academic institutions at its annual congress in Bournemouth at the end of the month.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Bowen | Haaretz | 13 April 2007 In the late 19th century, changes in Ottoman law created a new class of large landholders, including the Sursuq family from Beirut, which acquired large tracts in northern Palestine. A similar situation had long existed in Ireland, where most land was controlled by absentee landlords, many of whom lived in Britain. The 1880s, however, initiated dynamics that led the two lands in different directions.