Stephen Hawking boycotts top Israeli conference.

[Down1]

Internet Zionists are torqued off about it.

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of an Israeli conference, joining an academic boycott of Israel to protest against its occupation of Palestinian lands, Cambridge University said on Wednesday.

The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who has won international recognition for his work on black holes, had been due to speak at a prestigious conference in June organised by Israeli President Shimon Peres that draws hundreds of leading world figures.

However, his name was quietly dropped from the list of participants earlier this week, giving a major boost to supporters of pro-Palestinian groups that want to isolate Israel on the international stage over the continued occupation.

"This is his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there," the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine said on its website.

Cambridge University, where Hawking works, confirmed that the statement had been approved by the professor. Hawking did not issue any statement in his own name.
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stephen-hawking-boycotts-top-israeli-conference-083504255.html#DTXvbD5

[Neuro]

He just ended up on the list for involuntary euthanasia....

[StreetsOfGold]

Hawkings is Anti-God (no suprise he would be Anti-Israel) and although I am certainly against any wickedness purported by Israel (and they do), they are still God's choosen nation. They have the world's attention, you can't deny that and they are hatred by most, you can't deny that, but once they (as a nation) convert to Jesus Christ and realize he IS the Messiah, that will all change

[Ponce]

Streets? never have I said anything like this to one of my brothers ....but.....get F..K

You can take you Fu---g religion and shove it up your a-s

Dr Hawkings is one of the very few people that I would give my life for in order for him to be normal and to be able to contribute more to this stinky world.

First angry post of the day.........bad morning to one and all.

V

[Cebu_4_2]

they are still God's choosen nation

Who did God tell this to?

[JohnQPublic]

...once they (as a nation) convert to Jesus Christ and realize he IS the Messiah, that will all change

Unfortunately, in the best case, that will happen about the time of the end of the world.

[JohnQPublic]

Streets? never have I said anything like this to one of my brothers ....but.....get F..K

You can take you Fu---g religion and shove it up your a-s

Dr Hawkings is one of the very few people that I would give my life for in order for him to be normal and to be able to contribute more to this stinky world.

First angry post of the day.........bad morning to one and all.

V

Please watch your tone, Ponce.

Hawkings is celebrated for work on imaginary objects (black holes). I also would want to see him in a normal situation, but out of ordinary human compassion, not because of his perceived greatness.

[Ponce]

My tone? did I use any curse words? what the hiil are you talking about? please be expecific......if no curse words were use then only your dirty mind created the "bad" words.....think about it before you answer me.

V

[mamboni]

Obviously, Hawkings is an anti-semite.:rolleyes:

[Norweger]

Hawkings is Anti-God (no suprise he would be Anti-Israel) and although I am certainly against any wickedness purported by Israel (and they do), they are still God's choosen nation. They have the world's attention, you can't deny that and they are hatred by most, you can't deny that, but once they (as a nation) convert to Jesus Christ and realize he IS the Messiah, that will all change

The jews are not Israel.

[Cebu_4_2]

My tone? did I use any curse words? what the hiil are you talking about? please be expecific......if no curse words were use then only your dirty mind created the "bad" words.....think about it before you answer me.

V

Ponce, first you swear like an old sailor and now you
are being argumentative to a moderator!

Too much coffee today?

[ximmy]

Please watch your tone, Ponce.



When did "tone" become something to moderate?

[drafter]

I have to support Ponce's opinion on this one. It's precisely "religion" that has allowed Isreal to get away with the stuff it does. As long as people keep alive this whole "god's chosen people" BS, Isreal will be able to murder and manipulate with impunity.

[Cebu_4_2]

When did "tone" become something to moderate?

When it gets too loud.

[ximmy]

When it gets too loud.

4870

[JohnQPublic]

The "tone" issue was regarding attacking another member. It had not gotten to the point of an attack, but it was leading that direction.

[goldleaf]

They WERE the chosen people, but refused!

[Cebu_4_2]

The "tone" issue was regarding attacking another member. It had not gotten to the point of an attack, but it was leading that direction.

Wow, I didn't even notice that. Ponce slipped under my radar on that one.

I think his land patent is frustrating him today.

[drafter]

They WERE the chosen people, but refused!

Not to derail things, but this whole notion of "chosen" just sounds like bad parenting to me. Why anybody would support a "parent" that tells them outright, "I love all my kids, but some of you are just more special than the rest" is beyond me. I'll never understand religion and the people that give themselves over to it. Oh and how then does it feel to be "runner up" because your "god's" first choice didn't want what he was offering? I think I'd tell him that if I wasn't good enough to be first choice the first time around, he can just keep whatever he's giving. Thank you very much, I'll think for myself.

I know a bunch of you guys are religious and I support your right to believe in anything you want. I'm just pointing out that for me it doesn't compute.

[mamboni]

Not to derail things, but this whole notion of "chosen" just sounds like bad parenting to me. Why anybody would support a "parent" that tells them outright, "I love all my kids, but some of you are just more special than the rest" is beyond me. I'll never understand religion and the people that give themselves over to it. Oh and how then does it feel to be "runner up" because your "god's" first choice didn't want what he was offering? I think I'd tell him that if I wasn't good enough to be first choice the first time around, he can just keep whatever he's giving. Thank you very much, I'll think for myself.

I know a bunch of you guys are religious and I support your right to believe in anything you want. I'm just pointing out that for me it doesn't compute.

When I was a boy, I asked my father, a wise man, why the Jews were "the chosen." He responded wryfully, "chosen for what?"

[madfranks]

My tone? did I use any curse words? what the hiil are you talking about? please be expecific......if no curse words were use then only your dirty mind created the "bad" words.....think about it before you answer me.

V

Here's how my imagination read Ponce's post:


Streets? never have I said anything like this to one of my brothers ....but.....get F(un)K(y)

You can take you Fu(ll) (mu)g (of coffee) and shove it (down) your (esoph)a(gu)s

;D

[mamboni]

Here's how my imagination read Ponce's post:



;D

Madfranks, you are a gentle man.

[gunDriller]

what's the big deal ?

Ponce simply pointed out that Israel's actions are very far from Christian.


using Christian theology to defend Israel's actions is not exactly what Jesus had in mind. /understatement

[ximmy]

Here's how my imagination read Ponce's post:



;D

That's brilliant... ;D


You can take you Fu(ll) (mu)g (of coffee) and shove it (down) your (esoph)a(gu)s

[Dogman]

Here's how my imagination read Ponce's post:



;D

No disrespect but imaginations are sorta like bungholes, everyone has one..

Tho it would be nice to see the forum members more civil and adult towards each other. And not act like a bunch of school yard kids. Unlike the high drama of the past. No mater the meaning of ponces post, there has been far worse, from certain members that you all (mods) totally ignored and let them get away with it.

The rule needs to be applied to everyone and not just a few.

IMO.

[Ponce]

Thank you guys :) , no splicid words were said and here we have a case where the mind created the words and not the context of the message ..... is not that a modetator chew me out but rather the reason for doing so that I didn't like.

Also, something that I said before, the chewing should be done by pm and that way the guilty party, if they are guilty, would not be insulted.

V

[Serpo]

Maybe I am missing something but educated geniuses are not my cup of tea at all and I believe very little of what he says as I have no need to understand a lot of what he says.


This guy is so intellectual it paralysis me , lacks heart and soul but because of his condition everyone feels sorry for him.


There is a way too explain truth and this guy dosnt do it.

[Cebu_4_2]

Thank you guys :) , no splicid words were said and here we have a case where the mind created the words and not the context of the message ..... is not that a modetator chew me out but rather the reason for doing so that I didn't like.
V

What?

[Serpo]

What?


A bit like how Hawkins talks................

intellectual mumbo jumbo isnt going to help/save anyone.

lets all worship the highly intelligent and their intellectualism ,its never helped in the past but maybe this time its different.

[Cebu_4_2]

Thanks I got it now.

Ponce fakes saying get fucked with 'get F..K'

Says 'shove it up your a-s' which means 'shove it up your a-s'

I just cant figure that second one out.

[Serpo]

Thanks I got it now.

Ponce fakes saying get fucked with 'get F..K'

Says 'shove it up your a-s' which means 'shove it up your a-s'

I just cant figure that second one out.

starts with f ends with g hint.......... ing

[Cebu_4_2]

starts with f ends with g hint.......... ing

Got it

'afgs'

Rebels?

[Serpo]

Got it

'afgs'

Rebels?


what

[Cebu_4_2]

afgs (afgan) rebels.

Just trying to make sense in my time.

[Serpo]

its not working......

[Ponce]

Serpo?......you don't have to understand Hawkings to know what he is saying.....I for one don't know what he is saying but I know understand what he is sayig......i know, is confusing but I am in tune with him..........remember what I said one time?, don't think about solving the problem but simply relax and keep it in the back of your mind and let the solution to the problem come to you........maybe tha't why I make so many mistakes when I type, while I am taping my mind is already working on something else so that my fingers gets ahead of my mind.........anywy Prof Hawponce LOL.

V

[Glass]

Not to derail things, but this whole notion of "chosen" just sounds like bad parenting to me. Why anybody would support a "parent" that tells them outright, "I love all my kids, but some of you are just more special than the rest" is beyond me. I'll never understand religion and the people that give themselves over to it. Oh and how then does it feel to be "runner up" because your "god's" first choice didn't want what he was offering? I think I'd tell him that if I wasn't good enough to be first choice the first time around, he can just keep whatever he's giving. Thank you very much, I'll think for myself.

I know a bunch of you guys are religious and I support your right to believe in anything you want. I'm just pointing out that for me it doesn't compute.

Who is saying who's chosen anyway. Despite a book saying this, I have come to seriously doubt this claim. I think the "rejected ones" got to write the official "narrative" which became the bible in which certain things were changed to reflect a different desired reality. I don't think there is any valid claim there at all. I think it's BS.

[Neuro]

Who is saying who's chosen anyway. Despite a book saying this, I have come to seriously doubt this claim. I think the "rejected ones" got to write the official "narrative" which became the bible in which certain things were changed to reflect a different desired reality. I don't think there is any valid claim there at all. I think it's BS.
Good point lawyers and land thieves wrote the bible!

[Twisted Titan]

Not to derail things, but this whole notion of "chosen" just sounds like bad parenting to me. Why anybody would support a "parent" that tells them outright, "I love all my kids, but some of you are just more special than the rest" is beyond me. I'll never understand religion and the people that give themselves over to it. Oh and how then does it feel to be "runner up" because your "god's" first choice didn't want what he was offering? I think I'd tell him that if I wasn't good enough to be first choice the first time around, he can just keep whatever he's giving. Thank you very much, I'll think for myself.

I know a bunch of you guys are religious and I support your right to believe in anything you want. I'm just pointing out that for me it doesn't compute.




I do believe in God for no other reason then I have to many good things happen in my life to just dismiss as luck or happenstance.

But God also gave me a logical mind and I intend to use it.

And this is one of the things that REALLY chaps my hyde.


If God wanted to have CHOSEN people .... thats fine but why make anybody else if you Perfer the first??

Nothing but Friction can arise from a system set up like so.

[Ponce]

What people call "God" or Guatama or whatever are all the same......it should have no name for it is what it is, it is everywhere and is everything......I like the term from "Star Wars"....... "The Force"........it is neither male or female, nor a bug or a insect..........many years ago I read a book where the end was.......the girl "Thank God that we won" and the rat sitting next to her answered back "You Welcome".

V

[gunDriller]

Hawking is a very high-profile scientist, sort of a celebrity, which reminds me of Carl Sagan.

to have Hawking speak out is good for we Gentiles and any peace-loving Jews.

[PatColo]

Likely impact of Hawking's boycott on Israel? (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2013/05/likely-impact-of-hawkings-boycott-on.html)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yqx_Tu6hz8