Dr. Daphna Golan, Professor of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, explains in Haaeretz today why the academic establishment in Israel should oppose the Gazan assault,

The students’ fight against the tuition increase, the lecturers’ struggle over their salaries, and the battle of the institutions of higher education over budgets – all were good reasons for repeated strikes over the past two years. But now, when – over a few days of an unnecessary and cruel war – hundreds of people have been killed and a fortune has been wasted that could certainly compete with the annual higher education budget, no one is talking about a strike…

We should actually have gone on strike many years ago – in the days of the first intifada, when the Israel Defense Forces closed the schools and universities in the territories for months on end. They told us then not to bring politics onto campus, and that the army knew what it was doing; they told us we couldn’t let the Palestinians throw stones, and so we kept teaching…

Now too, we are continuing as usual, as the same leaders who failed and repeatedly chose force over dialogue are bombing and killing, just like Hamas. It’s not too late to call for dialogue, with Hamas and with any Arab leader prepared to talk with us.

Would Sid Ryan ban this legal academic too?