Students (so I’m told) enjoy playing drinking games. Anyone studying at the LSE will have ample opportunities ahead to play this one designed by Judeosphere.

Last week, LSE students passed a motion urging divestment from “companies that provide military and commercial support to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.” Last month, a similar motion failed to get through by a whisker.

Many of the lines identified by Judeosphere as occasion for a drink were no doubt heard at the meeting, and in conversations after. Meanwhile, sober analysis and some interesting information is provided by Gene and David T over at Harry’s Place. Says Mr. T:

Rather than engage in this sort of facile trench warfare, the
opponents of the Divestment motions decided instead to raise money for an Israeli charity called Save a Child’s Heart which performs heart surgery on children from Palestine and from many many other countries.

The LSE students raised £1000 for the charity.

It is difficult to think of a more appropriate answer to those amateur politicians, with their facile and grandstanding motions, who are interested only in torpedoing any genuine negotiated settlement between Palestinians and
Israelis.

Too right. But make no mistake: the boycotters are fixated on their cause and determined to get their way - and they are not just students either.