The story ofStephen Hawkings decisionto pull out of the Israeli Presidents Conference just got more interesting. A major United States newspaper, the Boston Globe,published an editorialoffering strong support for Hawking, and, while not supporting or opposing boycotting Israel as a tactic, took a firm stance in saying that the boycott tool is a legitimate,...

Hawking should be commendedfor pulling out of an Israeli conference as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians. As announced by the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and subsequently covered byThe Guardian,Reutersand others, world-renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking has decided ...

British theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawkins has joined an academic embargo on the Israeli regime by refusing to attend a conference hosted by the regimes president Shimon Perez. The prominent Cambridge professor was to take part in the Facing Tomorrow annual conference planned to be held in June but pulled out in protest at Tel Avivs treatment ...