It's a pretty decent article but I'm surprised that anyone else would be surprised. Part of being young is to be self-righteous and few do this better than self-styled progressives. How does the saying go "If you've not a communist at 20 you have no heart, and if you're a communist at 30 you have no head" (I'm paraphrasing a little here). In my youth I was a member of the Anti-Apartheid movement in the UK. Nothing wrong in that, as it was the "right-on" campus activity. Point is it cost me absolutely nothing bar the annual membership and you got to feel good about the obvious injustice at the same time. What more could you want? (Any obvious parallels to the IP situation are unintentional on my part) There is though a bigger picture in this and its the moral bankrupty of the left and perhaps we should look at the I/P conflict through this prism. Here in the UK, there are no real existential issues to consider but recently Nick Cohen http://www.nickcohen.net/ wrote an interesting book bemoaning the the left's moral blindness and the fact that much of it would rather side with radical islam against the US/UK & Israel (naturally). Really an extreme version of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Last year during the Lebanon "war" (conflageration? conflict?) people were wearing jackets with the slogan "We're all Hizbullah now" so go figure. In a world in which the majority of people believe that George Bush is a bigger danger than the Iranian President, Israeli's shouldn't be surprised -nor should they take this kind of thing too seriously