From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tanya Reinhart | Electronic Intifada | 4 February 2003 In April 2002, following the Israel's "operation" in Jenin, first calls for institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities appeared in England and in France. The British petition called to freeze European Union contracts with Israeli university as long as Israel continues its present policy. What started as the individual voice of concerned academics, has become lately a formal resolution of a French university.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amina Elbendary | Al-Ahram Weekly | 27 January 2003 As the academic and cultural boycott of Israel gains momentum Amina Elbendary meets Mona Baker, one supporter whose position has excited vitriolic attacks. Atrocities committed against the Palestinian people have reached levels that many in the West believe can no longer be tolerated or condoned, feelings that last April led to the launching of an academic boycott as part of a larger movement targeting Israeli institutional presence in the West.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Yahia Abu Zakaria | Palestine Chronicle | January 20, 2003 STOCKHOLM - A group of Swedish luminaries and public figures called for a boycott of Israeli goods produced in occupied Palestinian territories, in a show of protest at the Jewish state's policy of continued aggressions against the innocent Palestinians. In an article published in Sweden's largest daily on Saturday, January 18, a group of 73 Swedish public figures urged the boycott as a means to pressure Israel into dismantling the Jewish settlements and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people living under the relentless Israeli occupation.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Foggo and Josie Clarke | Daily Telegraph | 15 December 2002 The development of life-saving new medical treatments could be under threat because of the British boycott of Israeli academics, leading scientists and research organisations are warning. Baroness Greenfield, the eminent neurobiologist and the director of the Royal Institution, the oldest independent research body in the country, said that she was becoming increasingly "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andy Beckett and Ewen MacAskill | The Guardian | 12 December 2002 Evidence is growing that a British boycott of Israeli academics is gathering pace. British academics have delivered a series of snubs to their Israeli counterparts since the idea of a boycott first gained ground in the spring. In interviews with the Guardian, British and Israeli academics listed various incidents in which visits, research projects and publication of articles have been blocked.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Andy Beckett | The Guardian | December 12, 2002 This summer, a little-known Manchester academic caused an international storm when she sacked two Israeli scholars from the editorial board of her journal. But was it an isolated freelance protest - or the first skirmish in a wider academic boycott? Until a few months ago, Dr Oren Yiftachel was the kind of Israeli dissident that foreign critics of his country found admirable.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steven Rose | The Guardian | 27 May 2004 You finish teaching the class on your own campus, and drive to another, six miles away, to give a physiology course. A normal enough activity for a university teacher. Except that en route you are stopped by heavily armed soldiers. You explain where you are going. "How old are you?" they ask. Forty, you tell them.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ur Shlonsky | The Nation | 6 March 2003 Geneva, Switzerland I would like to respond to Neve Gordon's piece, "Against the Israeli Academic Boycott" (Feb. 14). Like Gordon, I am opposed to an academic boycott of Israeli universities precisely because it singles out academia. Unlike Gordon, however, I don't see any valid justification to exclude universities and research institutes from a general boycott of Israeli goods and services.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Martin Kramer |Frontpage Mag | 5 April 2004 The habitual academic petition-signers against Israel are out in force, in a letter to Hebrew University president Menachem Magidor. They charge that Israel "makes it difficult or impossible for Palestinian teachers and students to reach their universities," and that Israeli troops are responsible for "harassment, arrests, random shootings and assaults" on Palestinian campuses. The occupation itself, they write, "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 30 March 2004 Israel's academic leaders should take a public stand against their government's violations of academic freedom at Palestinian universities in the occupied territories, say more than 300 signatories to an open letter that has been published online. But the man to whom the letter is addressed, Menachem Magidor, president of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says the letter displays the double standard of those who are boycotting Israeli academic institutions.