it not unevidenced see here the other point you made that cole has consistently defended israeli academics' academic freedom for several years is also dubious and only tells half the story i read his piece re the boycott and his argument was that because he thought the israeli academics agreed with him they shouldn't be boycotted hardly a principled i disapprove of what you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it defense of academic freedom so much for voltaire or hall actually