Divesting Moral Values

"We the undersigned are appalled by the human-rights abuses against the Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli government."

- Petition circulated by faculty and students at Columbia to pressure the university to divest its funds from companies doing business with Israel

Predictably, there was no mention of Palestinian homicide bombers. Or of gunmen who murder Israeli children in their beds.

- Andrea Peyser, New York Post, November 13, 2002