University: Hawking Israel Boycott Story is a Fraud, Trip Canceled for Health Reasons (UPDATE) – Jewish

It turns out that Stephen Hawking's canceled trip to Israel is not a matter of boycotting the Jewish state, but rather merely a result of his health, according to a Cambridge University spokesman. The Guardian, which broke the story late last night, claimed that Hawking was to boycott the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem next month, after the newspaper received a statement from the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP), which claimed that it had issued the announcement with Hawking's [...] Continue reading →