Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement

BDS activists in Gaza (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott "a huge victory for the BDS movement"

[dan]

I think the boycotting was not a good idea for Doctor Hawkins Personally.

[shloopsieshloops]

-I've been a Kosovo orthopedist for 15 years, in a region with lots of injuries
-Neither I nor my colleagues ever saw such horrific wounds as those caused by cluster bombs
-Wounds leading to extensive disabilities.
-Crushed limbs- only option is amputation
-It's awful, awful.
-Victims of time-activated NATO cluster bombs that explode after they fall

[SharkTheArdvark]

It is very interesting that reading Wikipedia on BDS you see mostly criticism of the movement with large names against it.

[shloopsieshloops]

-Since 2000 the Saudis paid $100 million to U.S lobby firms.

-Major lobbying firms include Hill & Knowlton, ( since '82).

-Qorvis Communications, since 9/11-$60.3 million.

-Hogan Lovells U.S., L.L.P. since '09.

-The Loeffler Group, LLP, headed by former Congressman Tom Loeffler- $10.5 million.

-Sandler Innocenzi, Inc. $8.9 million.

-Patton Boggs, LLP $3 million.

-The Middle East Policy Council received large payments to lobby for the Kingdom.

[shloopsieshloops]

-The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), headquartered in Wash, controversial US Muslim org.

-Starting with a single office in '94, CAIR now claims 31 affiliates, including a branch in Canada, with more steadily being added.

-Besides grand national headquarters in Wash, it has impressive offices in other cities; the N.Y office, for example, is housed in 19-story Interchurch Center located on Manhattan's Riverside Drive.

[shloopsieshloops]

A police union spokesman said surveillance footage of the attacker showed him as tall and bearded, aged about 35, possibly of North African origin and wearing a white Arab-style tunic.
Hollande, in the Ethiopian city of Addis Ababa, commented on the stabbing to say police were hunting for the attacker but did not provide any details about his identity or any possible motivation for the attack.

[goat]

Great video, I didn't know about these group within Israel, peace activists and what they have done thus far. Donation indeed.

[shloopsieshloops]

The conduct of three British military units in Afghanistan came under serious question tonight after the Ministry of Defence released unprecedented details of incidents in which troops attacked Afghan civilians.
The disclosure, in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act made by the Guardian, revealed that of the casualties caused by British forces, two-thirds involved troops from the three units, triggering calls for an inquiry into their behaviour.

[shloopsieshloops]

BALI TERROR-1:

The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The attack was claimed as the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia according to the current police general, killing 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesian, 27 Britons, 7 Americans and 5 Swedish citizens). A further 240 people were injured.

[breaks]

Paul or whoever's reading the comments for trnn, just a note, imo you don't need necessarily to play down the use of subtitles in your videos. I admit it's more "convenient" or whatever when you get English speakers to interview, but I don't strictly think it's necessary. I've noticed this has been a trend in many of your reports from outside the US this year to move toward more Anglophone interviewees, but if the reason is due to feedback from your audience, please don't let that limit who you

[scramblethink]

…don´t understand quantum mechanics in physics…but this is logic on my level…Dr Hawkings is finally making sense to me!

[shloopsieshloops]

BBC
Libya has accused Nato of killing at least five people in an air strike that hit a house in the capital Tripoli.
A three-storey house was badly damaged at the scene of the alleged raid in the Souk al-Juma residential district.
Correspondents were later shown five bodies at a Tripoli hospital.

[shloopsieshloops]

"Our enemy until the day of judgment is the Christians, what we call the westerners or Europeans"
(Ali Al-Tamimi, Imam of the Dar al -Arqam, just outside Washington D.C)

[scentability]

Thanks for the info. Always looking for more info on companies to boycott.

[shloopsieshloops]

("New York Times")
"3 powerful lobbyists T. Podesta, R. Livingston & T. Moffett succeeded on behalf of Egypt to persuade U.S Senators to stop a bill calling on Egypt to "curtail human rights abuses."

In the lobbying campaign, former congressman T. Moffat said the bill “would be an insult” to an important ally.
“Don’t do this now to our friends in Egypt ” he said.

Lobbyists Podesta, Moffat & Livingston share "a joint, multimillion-dollar lobbying contract with Egypt"

[shloopsieshloops]

One of the car bombs exploded outside the city hall while the other went off outside the post office in the town of Reyhanli, a main hub for Syrian refugees and rebel activity in Turkey's Hatay province, just across the border. Images showed people frantically carrying victims through the rubble-strewn streets to safety.
Deputy P.M. Arinc said 40 people killed & 100 wounded in the blasts & linked them to Syria.

[shloopsieshloops]

UK government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency in what would be the first compensation settlement resulting from official crimes committed under imperial rule.
In a development that could pave the way for many other claims globally, government lawyers embarked on historic talks after suffering a series of defeats attempting to prevent elderly survivors of prison camps from seeking redress via UK courts

[shloopsieshloops]

Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline. And all of this is happening in a region, which only 30 years ago, was believed to be the next wealthy part of the world, and in a Moslem area, which developed, at some point in history, one of the most advanced cultures in the world.

[shloopsieshloops]

-UK homegrown cleric who loathes the UK

-Leading preacher of a hardline Islamic sect which controls half of UK mosques delivers a message filled with anger at non-Muslims
-Gentle but clear voice has a mesmeric quality & as he recites verses of the Koran in Arabic they gain a hypnotic, captivating beauty
-Then Riyadh ul Haq translates it to English & delivers his own interpretation of the holy text & what sounded so lyrical becomes a stark manifesto of separationist loathing

[breaks]

talk to going forward. I for one don't mind reading subtitles if it means you get to speak to a wider variety of people!