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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1134808" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><u>Fun fact: The equipment Hawking uses to communicate is <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/08/stephen-hawking-hypocrisy-israel-boycott" target="_blank">Israeli made</a>.</u></p><p></p><p>Via <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/10/noam-chomsky-was-behind-lobby-to-get-stephen-hawking-to-boycott-israel-conference/" target="_blank">Raw Story</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were “surprised and deeply disappointed” that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month’s presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Hawking pulled out this week in protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, in the wake of receiving the letter and soundings from Palestinian colleagues. The 71-year-old theoretical physicist’s decision has been warmly welcomed by Palestinian academics, with one describing it as “of cosmic proportions”, but was attacked in Israel.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Chomsky, who has backed “boycott and divestment of firms that are carrying out operations in the occupied territories”, agreed to add his considerable weight to the pressure on Hawking after email correspondence with the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine campaign group (Bricup), said its chair, Jonathan Rosenhead.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The letter to Hawking declared: “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain”, its treatment of the people of Gaza amounts to “collective punishment”, the construction of Jewish settlements breaches the Geneva convention and “Israel places multiple roadblocks, physical, financial and legal, in the way of higher education, both for its own Palestinian citizens and those under occupation”.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1134808, member: 1246"] [U]Fun fact: The equipment Hawking uses to communicate is [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/08/stephen-hawking-hypocrisy-israel-boycott"]Israeli made[/URL].[/U] Via [URL="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/10/noam-chomsky-was-behind-lobby-to-get-stephen-hawking-to-boycott-israel-conference/"]Raw Story[/URL]: [INDENT]Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it has emerged. Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the Open University to tell Hawking they were “surprised and deeply disappointed” that he had accepted the invitation to speak at next month’s presidential conference in Jerusalem, which will chaired by Shimon Peres and attended by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. Hawking pulled out this week in protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, in the wake of receiving the letter and soundings from Palestinian colleagues. The 71-year-old theoretical physicist’s decision has been warmly welcomed by Palestinian academics, with one describing it as “of cosmic proportions”, but was attacked in Israel. Chomsky, who has backed “boycott and divestment of firms that are carrying out operations in the occupied territories”, agreed to add his considerable weight to the pressure on Hawking after email correspondence with the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine campaign group (Bricup), said its chair, Jonathan Rosenhead. The letter to Hawking declared: “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain”, its treatment of the people of Gaza amounts to “collective punishment”, the construction of Jewish settlements breaches the Geneva convention and “Israel places multiple roadblocks, physical, financial and legal, in the way of higher education, both for its own Palestinian citizens and those under occupation”. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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