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stephen hawking
Top scientists defend EU freedom of movement
Science is a useful case study for the broader benefits free movement
Peace makers promote peace, not boycotts
The international community should disabuse those Palestinians promoting boycotts of the idea that they can avoid these compromises. By failing to take that stand against the boycott campaign, professor Hawking has done nothing for the cause of peace. If anything, by encouraging behaviour that entrenches the conflict, he has set it back.
So why did Stephen Hawking think it was ok to visit Iran and China?
Is Israel uniquely bad, or has hypocrisy towards the Jewish state become so widely accepted among some progressives that even an eminent scholar like Hawking is susceptible to hypocritical and lazy double standards?