From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Charles Hoover | Ha'aretz | 26 September 2003 International Academic Friends of Israel, fighting a boycott on local universities, names director for new Jerusalem office. "It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face," says David Leshnick to characterize attempts in the international scientific community to boycott Israel in the wake of the intifada. "An academic or scientific boycott is totally against the concept of academia.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) F. W. Lancaster (University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign) and Lorraine Haricombe (Northern Illinois University) | Perspectives on the Profession (Periodical of the Centre for the Study of Ethics for the Profession), Illinois Institute of Technology From the early 1960s until very recently, scholars in South Africa were subjected to various forms of boycott within the international academic community. The academic boycott, strongly supported by the African National Congress and agencies of the United Nations, was part of a much broader sanctions campaign including political, economic, cultural, and sports elements designed to express condemnation of the policy of apartheid and to force change in the racial policies of the South African government.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Richard Allen Greene | JTA — The Global Jewish News Service | 7 July 2003 LONDON, July 8 (JTA) — An Oxford University professor could be fired after rejecting a graduate student because he is Israeli. Andrew Wilkie, a professor of pathology, dismissed an application from Amit Duvshani to work in his laboratory in late June, partly on the grounds that the Tel Aviv University student had done his mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mark Oliver | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 An Oxford University professor is facing disciplinary action after rejecting an Israeli student's application to work with him because he had a "huge problem" with his country's "abuses on the Palestinians", it emerged yesterday. Andrew Wilkie, who was last month elected Nuffield professor of pathology, apparently rejected an approach by Amit Duvshani, 26, a student at Tel Aviv University, solely because of his nationality.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Julie Henry, Education Correspondent | Daily Telegraph | 29 June 2003 An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his nationality. Andrew Wilkie, the Nuffield professor of pathology and a fellow of Pembroke College, is under investigation after telling Amit Duvshani, a student at Tel Aviv university, that he and many other British academics were not prepared to take on Israelis because of the "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Caroline Davis | Times Higher Education Supplement | 13 June 2003 Academics should take individual action to frustrate the renewal of Israel's membership of the European Union's biggest research programme, the professor at the centre of last summer's boycott row said this week. The European Commission confirmed this week that it had renewed its agreement on scientific and technological cooperation with the Middle Eastern state.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oona King in Gaza | The Guardian | 12 June 2003 Oona King - “I have sadly come to the conclusion that, given the scale of the atrocities and collective punishment waged by the Israelis against the Palestinians, I have no choice but to boycott Israeli products. On reflection, whether Jewish or not, you might decide to do the same.” The no man's land separating Israel from the Gaza Strip gives way to what can only be described as desecrated land.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Suzanne Goldenberg and Will Woodward |The Guardian | 8 July 2002 Sackings on two obscure journals fuel debate on cooperation with universities. A pair of obscure journals run by a Manchester professor have become the focal point for an angry debate across the international academic community over a boycott of Israeli universities. A decision by Mona Baker, a professor of translation studies at the University of Manchester institute of science and technology (Umist) to sack two liberal Israeli academics from minor roles on her journals have provoked a stinging response from academics led by Stephen Greenblatt, the Harvard professor, Shakespeare scholar and president of the Modern Language Association of America.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 30 June 2003 A leading campaigner for academic freedom today offered his support to the Oxford don at the centre of a new row over a boycott of Israel. Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University, is facing possible disciplinary action after refusing to consider an Israeli student for a PhD because of his nationality. Professor Wilkie wrote in an email reply to Amit Duvshani, a 26-year-old Tel Aviv University student: "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DESMOND TUTU | Counterpunch | 17 October 2002 The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century, but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure-- in particular the divestment movement of the 1980s. Over the past six months, a similar movement has taken shape, this time aiming at an end to the Israeli occupation. Divestment from apartheid South Africa was fought by ordinary people at the grassroots.