DEATH OF STEPHEN HAWKING THE WAY I SEE IT......

Even Stephen Hawking makes mistakes – he got it so wrong about the Israel boycott!!!!

Don't get me wrong but even academics make mistakes: I respect Hawking for his brilliance and personal courage in overcoming tremendous obstacles, but his decision to support the boycott of Israel is contrary to the nature of academia.

So why Stephen Hawking made a mistake backing Israel boycott: Lets start with a lie of an excuse....The University of Cambridge, Hawking’s academic home for decades, initially said he was pulling out for health reasons — Hawking is almost completely paralyzed from Lou Gehrig’s disease — but later said it was a decision Hawking made “based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott,”


HAWKING DOUBLE STANDARDS: Critics of Hawking’s decision are noting that he was all too happy to visit China in 2007 ignoring their savage human rights records without including the vicious Chinese treatment of Tibetans, or Iran in 2007 who not only hang anyone who is gay but do it publicly.

HOW HAWKING GOT IT SO WRONG: How can a man as brilliant as Hawking boycott Israel when it makes the microchip that enables him to talk?

Let me make myself clear. Such a boycott is an on-going attempt to demonise, delegitimise and ultimately destroy the world’s only Jewish state and our closest cultural and security ally in the region. That Hawking should add his name to the boycott is shameful.

It is an effort to persecute all Israelis, including Arab Israelis, whatever their politica. I've said this hundreds of times BDS is putting Palestinians out of work. Listen to what they say and stop making up rubbish. Your hurting the very people you pertain to help.

So where are the academic boycotts of Saudi, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Syria and everywhere else?

But apart from all this, academic boycotts are utterly self-defeating.

Israeli research institutions lead the world in breakthrough technologies. They benefit all of us who rely on computers and mobile phone technology.

They also lead the world in medical advances, and have more scientists per capita than any other state in the world. Every patient who has benefited from the latest surgery techniques — or hopes to benefit from the cutting-edge research into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and many more diseases — will rely on discoveries made in Israeli research facilities.

Stephen Hawking's life would have been a whole lot worse if it hadn't been for Israeli technology that allowed him the freedom to talk. The world would be a whole lot worse off without Israel's contribution to both technology and medical science.