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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/08/stephen-hawking-israel-academic-boycott<snip>
Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
Hawking, 71, the world-renowned theoretical physicist and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, had accepted an invitation to headline the fifth annual president's conference, Facing Tomorrow, in June, which features major international personalities, attracts thousands of participants and this year will celebrate Peres's 90th birthday.
Hawking's decision marks another victory in the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions targeting Israeli academic institutions.
In April the Teachers' Union of Ireland became the first lecturers' association in Europe to call for an academic boycott of Israel, and in the United States members of the Association for Asian American Studies voted to support a boycott, the first national academic group to do so.
In the four weeks since Hawking's participation in the Jerusalem event was announced, he has been bombarded with messages from Britain and abroad as part of an intense campaign by boycott supporters trying to persuade him to change his mind. In the end, Hawking told friends, he decided to follow the advice of Palestinian colleagues who unanimously agreed that he should not attend.
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Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel (Original Post)
malaise
May 2013
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RandiFan1290
(6,245 posts)1. Professor!!!
jessie04
(1,528 posts)2. It will be tough,
but I think Israel will do fine without him.
I was thinking the same thing.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)3. God Bless Him! God Bless Him!! God Bless Him!!!