Campus Watch, Daniel Pipes' Middle East Studies watchdog website, has created a new "Solidarity With Apologists" page to honor those academics who demanded to be listed alongside the eight academics the site originally singled out as egregious abusers of their professorial positions. So outraged were certain academics at the putatively "McCarthyite" tactics of Pipes' creative use of the public domain, so incensed were they by the manner in which his attempt to challenge the academy's hard left stance toward Middle East affairs "chilled" their own expression, that they joined symbolic hands with their oppressed colleagues, flooded Pipes with nasty mail, and sanctimoniously urged him to single them out, too. (Readers of Critical Mass will recall that Berkeley queer theorist Judith Butler led the pious charge). Ever the gentleman, Pipes has obliged. In his own words:

After we launched www.campus-watch.org, academics deluged us with emails; some of them requested inclusion with the original eight professors cited. ... Most of them are academics from other fields and I suspect that few of them actually read our statement of purpose, for very few of them understand what issues Campus Watch was created to address. Still, if they insist on declaring public solidarity with Palestinian or Islamist violence, this is important information for university stakeholders to be aware of, so we are posting their names.

I know a number of these martyrs to justice. I even own some of their books. I'm so proud.