Stephen Hawking

The National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA) has voted unanimously to endorse the academic boycott of Israel. ASA's members, which number around five thousand, will have ten...

British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has backed an academic boycott of Israel as he announcing he would not attend a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, the...

A number of well-known and renowned figures and institutes have announced their boycott of Israeli president Shimon Peres's conference scheduled to be held in Jerusalem next month. This boycott...

Two indirectly-related stories from the US this week struck me in a particular way. Firstly, it was a big week for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign. The...

Israeli president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential conference called "Facing Tomorrow". Its theme is the "human factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow"....

Speeches by Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu at the end of the fifth presidential conference consisted of an exercise in manipulating historical legitimacy. Relegating Palestinians to a role even...