YALIEN LIFE FORMS, and others: Oxblog‘s petition opposing the drive to get Yale to divest from companies doing business with Israel. I signed it. I oppose attempts at economic isolation in general and this one in particular. You’ll soon see (probably tomorrow) that I am not a Zionist–here’s an earlier, fairly hopeless post about Israel, and here are a couple follow-ups–but the attempts to make Israel a pariah state strike me as completely wrong. And divestment is the worst of the possible strategies for shaming Israel, even if shaming Israel were what I wanted to do.