This Space for Rent

Huh?

The faculty at my alma mater just called for the university to divest itself of all of its investments in the state of Israel.

That's quite a change; when I was going to school there, the faculty was very supportive of the state of Israel and was willing to turn the other cheek to some of the ethical lapses that it did. I guess that the Ariel Sharon model of ethnic cleansing was enough to make them decide that enough is enough, and that it was time to start insisting that allies of the United States should at least attempt to be the good guys.

To head off comments, I'm sure that the faculty would have called for the university to divest itself of all of its investments in the territories controlled by the PA, but (1) they don't control any territories, and (2) there's nothing to invest in there; everything worthwhile is being seized by "settlers" from, um, somewhere else..