@ Judes: I do appreciate your comments and really respect your measured reasonable tone. But to be clear. I don't advocate hiding or denying the truth, especially speaking the truth to power. But I believe, and I think Gandhi would also, that truth must be spoken with love, for that is the only way to reach the hidden compassion buried even in the unjust. Also, even though I disagree with Peter Shurman's implicit attempt to portray Israel as blameless, I hardly see his motion as a threat to free speech, since there is no suasion other than moral girding the motion. It's a completely toothless threat. Now if the Left responds NOT with measured intelligence (e.g. as some have done by attempting reasonably to defend the use of the term apartheid) but with deranged histrionics and, thereby, steps right into Shurman's trap, then that's another story...

Peace...