Useful Dupes: In other wacky news from the Merc, Dana Hull reveals that "More than 140 University of California professors have signed a petition urging the university to divest in American companies that sell arms to Israel, and similar faculty petitions are circulating at Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Tufts. The divestment drive borrows a page from the popular anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s, when students and professors persuaded universities to sell millions of dollars worth of holdings in companies that did business with South Africa." L. Ling-chi Wang, a professor of ethnic studies (sic) at the University of California shares with us that "Apartheid is one form of occupation and domination, and what's happening in the West Bank and Gaza is also occupation and domination".

The web location for this idiocy is http://www.ucdivest.org/. I wonder if the profs are angling for the Court Jester job in Palestine?