Is Stephen Hawking right to join the academic boycott of Israel? | Poll | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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Plus que 62 % de “YES”, encore 2 h40 pour soutenir Stephen Hawking.
Et un(e) de plus :
« Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel »
Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians
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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 is in very poor health, but last week he wrote a brief letter to the Israeli president to say he had changed his mind. He has not announced his decision publicly, but a statement published by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine with Hawking’s approval described it as “his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there”.
Stephen Hawking declines invitation to attend Israeli conference
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We understand that Professor Stephen Hawking has declined his invitation to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference Facing Tomorrow 2013, due to take place in Jerusalem on 18-20 June. This is his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there.
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Is Stephen Hawking right to join the academic boycott of Israel?
Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Is he right to do so?