MOVING TO FRONT FROM EARLIER TODAY

The Department of Political Science at Ben-Gurion University, home to some fierce critics of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, now faces threat of closure.   There is a petition against the move here, though it is unfortunately written:  one needn't believe that the views of members of the Department are "brave" or even intelligent or commendable, to nonetheless recognize that to close a department as political retribution is a horrible precedent and a complete betrayal of the premises of a university.  Joseph Raz, Hartry Field, and others from our part of the academic community have already signed.  Please do the same.

(Thanks to Jim Pryor for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  Not a bad letter of protest from Michael Walzer, whose political positions have been mostly reprehensible for quite some time now, but this time he gets it right.