Academic Boycott: "We do not want to continue business as usual"

We overcame our fear
Jameela al-Shanti in Beit Hanoun
Thursday November 9, 2006
Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care. In the same raid Israel's artillery shelled a residential district in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, leaving 19 dead and 40 injured, many killed in their beds. One family, the Athamnas, lost 16 members in the massacre: the oldest who died, Fatima, was 70; the youngest, Dima, was one; seven were children. The death toll in Beit Hanoun has passed 90 in one week.

Israel kills 18 in shelling of Gaza town
08 Nov 2006 07:43:17 GMT, Source: Reuters
Nidal al-Mughrabi
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Israeli tank shells killed 18 civilians in Gaza on Wednesday including 13 members of one family, Palestinian officials and residents said, in one of Israel's deadliest strikes in the territory in months.UN officials voice 'shock and dismay' at deadly

Israeli shelling of Gaza civilians
Report, UN News, 8 November 2006

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The Women of Beit Hanoun
Eliza Ernshire, November 7, 2006
The winter rains have started and the temperatures are falling everyday. Unsealed roads are fast becoming muddy tracks. The heavens are weeping too, witness to the frightful events that are unfolding now in that devastated and forgotten strip of land that we call Gaza, home to 3 million Palestinians.

Gaza women killed in mosque siege
Friday, 3 November 2006, 22:15 GMT
The BBC's Matthew Price in Jerusalem says that in television footage of the incident, some men are visible in the crowd, but there is no evidence that they were carrying guns.

Israeli troops open fire on women outside mosque
Staff and agencies, 3 November 2006

Video: http://multimedia.repubblica.it/home/463524

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm

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A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, a physician by training, a human rights and women's rights activist by practice, in the occupied Gaza Strip.
http://fromgaza.blogspot.com/

Laila El-Haddad, journalist, mom, occupied Palestinian-all packed into one.
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

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Casualties Mount in New Israeli Attack on Gaza
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Amy Goodman interviews Jennifer Loewenstein, visiting research fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, currently in Gaza City.

Listen to Maj. Gen. Stern
Gideon Levy, 7 November, 2006
In recent months, almost no day has gone by without Palestinians being killed in Gaza. Instead of asking why, we get a prime minister who boasts to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee about "300 terrorists" dead within four months, as if killing in itself were an enormous achievement. This is the lesson from Ehud Olmert, and it is immeasurably more grievous than all his alleged corruption affairs.

Another Hamas Peace Plan Ignored
Ira Chernus, 4 November 2006

Video: Norman Finkelstein on Hamas, current crisis
Lebanon, Hezbollah (Burlington, VT, 09.30.2006)

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After a six-day barrage, Israel leaves Gaza town to count dead
Sa'id Ghazali in Beit Hanoun and Eric Silver in Jerusalem
Published: 08 November 2006

Beit Hanoun: Israelis pull out leaving trail of death
Rory McCarthy in Beit Hanoun
Wednesday November 8, 2006
Hours after the Israeli military pulled out of the town of Beit Hanoun yesterday morning, Talal Nasr was at the cemetery to search for a spot to bury the body of his 13-year-old daughter.

Olmert to press on with Gaza offensive
Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
Monday November 6, 2006

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Gaza: ICRC deplores the death of two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers carrying out their humanitarian duties
5-11-2006 Press Release 06/121

International Red Cross says Israeli forces hit clearly marked ambulance workers November 5, 2006
The Associated Press

Red Cross deplores the deaths of two paramedics in Gaza
Report, ICRC, 6 November 2006
Palestinian friends and relatives attend the funeral of paramedic Ahmed al-Madhoun, 43, who was killed during clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in Gaza, 4 November 2006.

Red Cross: IDF hit clearly marked ambulance workers
Last update - 07:59 06/11/2006

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Transcripts of Campus Conflict & Vincent/Danby Interview
Dateline, SBS - November 8, 2006

Targeting the University
Joseph Massad, 3 June 2005

Neocon Man
Eyal Press - April 22, 2004
Pipes conceded to me that there was an element of "wishful thinking" among supporters of the war, "including in myself." He might have been more sober-minded had he listened to some of the arguments being made by members of the profession he once, a long time ago, aspired to join.

Pipes' personal views on the conflict can be traced back to the early days of the struggle. In 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, an ideological father to the Israeli right wing, wrote that there would be no peace until the Arabs in Israel were psychologically crushed. "As long as the Arabs preserve a gleam of hope that they will succeed in getting rid of us, nothing in the world can cause them to relinquish that hope," he declared.

"AIPAC has undertaken a massive effort to educate all congressional candidates on the value of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Nearly every candidate has met with AIPAC professional staff members and submitted a position paper summarizing his or her views on U.S. policy toward the Middle East. A non-partisan organization, AIPAC has for decades worked with Republican, Democratic and Independent members of Congress to strengthen the ties between the United States and Israel."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2006/11/aipac-has-undertaken-massive-effort-to.html

Israel Comes First - Pelosi at AIPAC
Joshua Frank, 31 May 2005

Blaming the lobby
Joseph Massad, March 2006

A Note of Dissent: On the Israel Lobby Piece by Mearsheimer and Walt
As'ad AbuKhalil, Friday, March 17, 2006
Since I returned from Qatar on Thursday, I must have received a copy of the Israel Lobby article by Mearsheimer and Walt from more than 20 different sources, at least. It is clear that this is one of those pieces that get wide circulation over the internet (the internet? that is where Walid Jumblat "found" evidence that Shib`a Farms are not Lebanese). I of course read it with interest. This is what I think. I will be referring to the full text that appeared as a Faculty Research Working Papers Series by the Kennedy School of Government.

Debating the Lobby in Manhattan - Israel Sends in the Clowns
Michael J. Smith, 29 September 2006

The Demographics of American Jews
Lenni Brenner, 24 October 2003

The Lobby and the Great Protestant Crusader
The NYT Confronts Mearsheimer and Walt--Not Quite Head On
Lenni Brenner, 17 March 2006

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Academic Boycott: "We do not want to continue business as usual"
Birgit Althaler, 8 November 2006

Final Report of the Conference
"The Struggle Continues: Boycotting Israeli Apartheid"