Watching the kids screaming divestment from Tel Aviv University makes me wonder if there is any awareness of the large percentage of Arab students who gain professions at this very university.  I don’t think the students who learned from me want that university to disappear.  

I may be wrong now…

I mean I went to visit some of my former students who were in mourning last week (stop me if you’ve heard this one – I loved that moment too much to forget it.  The first thing they asked me, after a quick glance at each other, was about something that really troubled them all the years.  “yes, I said, before the question got asked, “It was Coke.”  I get asked that a lot.  I used to come to class with a can of Coke every time, and from the way I behaved, it was clear to them that there was something else in that can…

I don’t think that’s a reason to divest from the university, though.