Left-wing Israeli academics, shunned at home and abroad

When Stephen Hawking visited here in 2006 he received the royal treatment; but then he decided to criticize Israel. This might be the most sensitive of Israeli nerves: Just try to touch it, and your fate is sealed. Anyone proposing to boycott an ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking recently said philosophers have not kept up with science and their art is dead. — EPA photo Democracy never arrives at a resting place — it is always under revision, refinement and revaluation, write Creston Davis and ...

Frequent Israel critic and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky urged famed British physicist Stephen Hawking to boycott the fifth annual Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, The Guardian reported. Chomsky, a leader of the ...

It is an event of cosmic proportions, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by ...

If Stephen Hawking, as a scientist, wants to be logical in his boycott of anything associated with Israeli technology, including conferences that are being held in Israel, then he should extend his efforts to banning the use of Israeli developments ...

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that Israel is under constant threat of missile attack. Stephen Hawking Photo: REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud It's not every day you discover youre smarter than an iconic scientist of Stephen Hawking's ...

Boycotting Israel, while chiding Britain and the U.S. for 'war crimes' but not boycotting them, shows that the renowned scientist has dual standards. Stephen Hawking is not only a prominent scientist and researcher. He is also an intellectual ...

Tel Aviv: Noam Chomsky was among 20 academics who privately lobbied Professor Stephen Hawking to boycott a major Israeli conference, it emerged last night. Chomsky, a US professor and supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined academics from the ...

Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientists in the world. His brilliance co-exists with a physically debilitating illness that has made him an inspiration and role-model for many. I hope, however, that few follow his misplaced moral passion.