Stephen Hawking 'boycotts' major Israel conference

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Israeli aggressions against Palestinians and mostly civilians are overwhelming to the point that the list of boycotting people and entities is only increasing by time.

Sorry, but why is this on hacker news?

Someone wanted to start a flamewar.(?)

Yeah, I guess so. I'm just annoyed that people treat hacker news like it's the front page of reddit or something.

But whatever.. I don't have the ability to downvote stupid posts, and apparently when I question why they're here I just get downvoted.

You and me both, amigo.

No, he doesnt. He sent a letter that he wouldn't go there for health reasons, but the news agencies told the story incorrectly - for whatever reasons.

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/08/report-hawking-israel-b...

Unfortunately... "UPDATE: In an about-face, Cambridge University has now confirmed that Hawking is indeed boycotting Israel."

And no, the only aggressive people are the real muslims there who attack Israel and other countries all the time.

All kinds of people attack all other kinds of people in other countries all the time.

I've got Jewish friends who've come to the U.S.A. and left Israel because Israel is the one of the few countries where people want to kill you because you're Jewish, and both Israelis and Palestinians are to blame for that situation.

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