From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Schmuel Rosner | Haaretz | 8 June 2007 The British boycott exposed yet again the extent to which Israel depends on the help of the American Jewish community. But if American Jews react, what will the Brits say? How to react to the so-called British boycott against Israel? This is a question asked by many players in the Jewish world after the University and College Union, Britain's largest teachers union, voted to consider an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Matthew Taylor, Suzanne Goldenberg and Rory McCarthy | The Guardian | 9 June 2007 British academics' desire to boycott Israeli universities this week provoked the threat of legal action and counter-boycotts. Will it produce a fully-fledged international crisis? As the pop group Girls Aloud ran through a sound check on the other side of the curtain, lecturers in the main hall at the Bournemouth International Centre tried to block out the music and concentrate on the matter in hand.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Assaf Uni and Haim Bior, Haaretz Correspondents | Haaretz | 1 June 2007 BRITAIN - The United Kingdom's public services union UNISON will consider a proposal for imposing a boycott on Israel during its annual conference in mid-June, in the wake of Wednesday's decision by a British lecturers union to back a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. UNISON representatives who are in contact with the Histadrut labor federation have in recent days presented the Histadrut's international activities director, Avital Shapira, with a copy of the proposal.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 8 June 2007 The foreign and education ministers are setting up a public relations task force to prepare a public relations campaign against the boycotts of Israel being forged in the United Kingdom. The joint task force will consist of representatives of the two ministries, the Histadrut and heads of universities and colleges. Anti-Israel boycotts are spreading in the U.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Steven Rose | The Independent | 4 June 2007 Academic freedom, it appears, applies to Israelis but not to Palestinians The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and to encourage UCU members to consider the moral implications of links with Israeli universities.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lisa Taraki | Times Higher Education Supplement | 8 June 2007 The growing boycott movement has put Israeli academe on the defensive, but more is required, says Lisa Taraki On the day that UK academics debated motions to boycott Israel the international media reported on a letter addressed to the Israeli defence minister. It had been sent by academics and intellectuals, including the presidents of four Israeli universities, and it called for the lifting of the ban on Gaza students travelling to the West Bank.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Benny Tziper | Haaretz | 4 June 2007 [Translated from original Hebrew by Rann Bar-On.] Last Friday morning I drove to the Palestinian village of Bil'in. Bil'in, the village that has turned into a symbol of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and against the confiscation of Palestinian land by fraudulent Jewish real-estate sharks who hide behind fake patriotism. Bil'in, a Palestinian village geographically close to Tel Aviv and central Israel and to call the fake leftists who inhabit Tel Aviv's coffee shops.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amjad Barham | The Guardian | 24 May 2007 Israeli academics are not standing up for their Palestinian counterparts, and a boycott is the best way forward, says Amjad Barham Recently, Israeli academics have toured the UK to dissuade British academics from supporting a boycott against Israeli academic institutions. The Israelis have made two arguments against the boycott, both of which are seriously flawed.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) James Meikle | The Guardian | 31 May 2007 University lecturers threatened yesterday to provoke international condemnation by forcing their union into a year-long debate over boycotting work with Israeli universities. Delegates at the first conference of the new University and College Union in Bournemouth voted by 158 to 99 for "a comprehensive and consistent boycott" of all Israeli academic institutions, as called for by Palestinian trade unions in response to Israel's "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) PACBI | 30 May 2007 For Immediate Release: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) salutes the historic decision by the University and College Union (UCU) Congress today to support motions that endorse the logic of academic boycott against Israel, in response to the complicity of the Israeli academy in perpetuating Israel’s illegal military occupation and apartheid system. Academic boycott has been advocated in the past as an effective tool in resisting injustice.