physicist Stephen Hawking boycotts israel over palestine occupation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/08/hawking-israel-boycott-furore


In england, this made good news.




But Palestinians welcomed Hawking's decision. "Palestinians deeply appreciate Stephen Hawking's support for an academic boycott of Israel," said Omar Barghouti, a founding member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. "We think this will rekindle the kind of interest among international academics in academic boycotts that was present in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa."


comparing israel/palestine divide as an apartheid???? Great current world news DELETED RULE 13 VIOLATION PLEASE DO NOT DO IT AGAIN How do the people on this side of the lake feel aboout one of the most respected scientist on the earth is against israel occupation?

 

An excellent decision by a world-wide figurehead. The movement to acknowledge apartheid in Israel is attracting many famous people, Hawking, de Niro, Stevie Wonder and Emma Thompson as tasters, and thousands of ordinary folk who realise that such online movements and Facebook efforts can make a difference.

https://www.facebook.com/IAcknowledgeApartheidExists

 

What a schmuck, LoL. Is not he boycotting the country, which works on his medicine?

 

i would think that if a guy as well read as he is, is making such a stance, that a least a few with a brain cell would perhaps check into his position.

i would like to see warren buffet and b gates, step up and boycott anything kosher towards israel

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while schmuck smoke the only thing they consider of their capability

 

You cannot boycott kosher - gefilte fish and kudel are too delicious

 

Look. The schmuck uses Israeli technology everyday, he can't speak without it. So, if he is to boycott Israel, it is logical that he should ask his assistants to remove every bit of Israeli technology, even if it'll render him speechless. Right? Of course right.

What a hypocrite

 

That's not logical at all. Israel couldn't produce anything at all without imports- well perhaps with the exception of assassins- and most ' Israeli' technology is the product of American research establishments. No, you're going to have to do better than deprive a wheelchair-bound genius of his medicine. Consult the hasbara handbook.

 

Sounds like armchair activism imo.

 

I bet you would. Too bad for you, Microsoft is hiring in Israel and Warren Buffet just bought a huge company there.

http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/il/home.aspx
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/warren-buffet-buys-out-israeli-firm-for-2-billion/2013/05/01/

This was Buffet's largest ever purchase of a non-american company.

 

Perhaps, Steven Hawking should consider recognizing Palestinian achievements in science?

 

Well, most people sit down at their keyboards.

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He recognises something lost to Zionists- their humanity.

 

I take it that you really can see the idiocy of that effort but simply don't care enough to be embarrassed.

Aye to that. I anticipate that we will witness that disaster during the lifetime of this forum.

 

.....and in a fit of insanity even Israel blanched at, which takes some doing, it launched a nuclear war with weapons it doesn't admit to having. The cartoon depicts the few lucky ones to survive.

Americans cheered endlessly, of course, like performing seals, conditioned as they are to adore hyper-violence provided their pampered knees don't get scraped.

 

Launched nuclear war because of Hawking's boycott? LoL, writing fantasy much?

 

When are the Philistines gonna boycott the Palestinians? You know, I'd become a Philistine if it gave me notoriety.

 

This is the movement which appealed to Hawking, and others, for their support in combating the Zionist occupation of Palestine through boycott, divestment and sanctions.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yqx_Tu6hz8&feature=youtu.be

http://www.juancole.com/2013/05/hawkings-joins-academic-boycott-of-israel.html


Let's also be very clear- Stephen Hawking has shamed everybody who has not rejected the occupiers' fig-leaf invitation

 

maybe he not just a useless wheerchair dummy after all

still waiting for him to invent pastisteel

 

Muslims certainly are...

 

....just got sucked up by a hole of idiocy....

 

Aye to that.
Would members of ' the rabid far-right 'pro-Israel' camp' stand up, please.

 

Pro-Israel Celebrities

 

' Bob Hope ' ! Quit clowning.

' Rupert Murdoch ' ! Hey, you left off Bibi Netanyahu

As for ' jon voight yarmulke ' - well, your post is an embarrassment. Zionist ?

 

There was a time when I highly admired Hawking. Fortunately for the world and himself, even at 70 years of age his brain and work in science philosopher and ATP is still among the top 20 scientists etc, (just guessing). Some of his peers and others still place him as #1 even. after several of losses at the debate table and infamous arguments bets and fights with his peers. So there are some fractures in his remarkable intellectual facade. His retractions etc indicate his brain/mind is not the intellect it once was, but compared to my abilities in advanced theoretical physics and related subjects is….well we wont go there!

After he joined his peers in the academic boycott of Israel and worse after his insidious ‘circle jerk yes men anti-Israel comments’ my admiration that began around 1990> has went the way of Piltdown man, or a flushed turd in caught in a toilet whirlpool. My love for him is now an embarrassment, yes I take it personal. Hawking’s support for the boycott against Gods chosen people and nation is truly deeply depressing to me and I feel he has harmed himself both here and now and ahhh’ later on, lol at 70 maybe not too much later, eh?

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Stephen Hawking 'backs Israel boycott' - Europe - Al Jazeera English
www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/.../20135893720576820.html - Cached
1 day ago ... UK physicist reported to have withdrawn from upcoming Israeli conference in ... prompting reports that he is supporting an academic boycott on the country. ...
famous scientists has joined a boycott organized to protest Israel's ...

That (above) looks interesting! Maybe Hawking will do the right thing after all!!! BRB gone to have a look at this !

reva

 

So tell us, just what Israeli technology does he use? How does it work? What's the history of it? Who were the main innovators? What makes it Israeli technology?