9,000 Israeli academics were individually asked by a few of their colleagues to express support for academic freedom in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Nothing more.

407 signed. That is 4.5%.

So where are all the academics wholead the peace movement in Israel? Where is that bastion of progressivethought, that beautiful Israel that is soooo different from the brutalofficers and the shameless politicians?

This is Israel's conscience. This is Israel's intellectual genius and liberal heart. This is the Peace Movement. 4.5%.