There has been much ballyhoo about the announcement that astronomer Stephen Hawking decided to boycott an academic conference in Israel as part of the Academic Campaign For the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. This is a movement whose founders and leaders are part of the International Solidarity Movement that brought the world the Mavi Marmara flotilla-terrorist-supporting nonsense and brings us all the unending war against Israel’s right to exist from Hamas and the PLO.
The BDS campaign has been boasting about their so-called new found legitimacy by Hawking’s joining and supporting their tirade against the Jews in support of the “Palestinians” as “victims” of the Jewish state.
The reason this has commanded so much attention is because as an astronomer, Hawking is considered a man of high intellect and by joining the BDS movement, he supposedly has given the noxious group intellectual legitimacy.
But just the opposite is true.
Anti-BDS activists have rightly pointed out that it was Israeli technology that gave Hawking the ability to communicate and speak electronically with the academic and public world. Of course, in this argument they are right, but Hawking’s personality also should be addressed for those who wish to show the actual worthlessness of Hawking as an intellectual outside his academic world of astronomy - along with his adherence to the normative anti-Semitism that comes out of his homeland in the UK.
Hawking’s support of BDS is news, not because it shows any intellectual reasoning behind BDS, but because it shows how so-called intellectuals in our society and universities really are no better than the rest of us. Hawking is an embarrassment as a human being to thinking astronomers and others outside his field. The real shocker of a news item is that a man who people think is a giant intellectual jumps in bed politically with anti-Semitic Arab Neanderthals.
As an astronomy buff, I used to admire Hawking. But he has now proven to me he is as affected by non-academic peer pressure from the pseudo-intellectuals of the Arab world as any other uneducated dolt. I believe there are reasons for this that to date nobody has discussed:
To view Hawking in person is to see a man in a wheelchair with a diseased body. A victim of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Hawking’s mind is imprisoned in a body that is weak and decaying. Hawking’s joining the BDS boycott of Israel shows just how the man’s mind has also been corrupted by such imprisonment.
Hawking has stated about the Universe that all of it, and all of us, came from “nothing”. Hawking says this in a declarative statement that God does not exist. Such a treatise shows the bitterness of a man trapped in a corporeal prison from which he cannot escape; for Hawking can no more prove the non-existence of God than anyone can prove a God and Creator does exist.
Einstein was an astronomer too, but he believed in a Creator and he was an avid Zionist and supporter of Israel. Einstein escaped Nazi Germany and had joie de vivre, Hawking is in his own concentration camp of disease and is no doubt so bitter about it he insists no God exists.
The People of Israel for the most part, even agnostics among them, believe that some force or creator guided their return after 2,000 years. I believe Hawking hides an inner resentment of this and is why he joins forces with BDS promoters.
Hawking could be given a pass on his statement that we came from “nothing” were he to declare himself an agnostic; but I believe his flat out denial of God, and joining nihilists and terror sponsors of the Palestinians and their ISM front groups has other causes. Hawking gave as an excuse for his promoting BDS this time the fact that many “Palestinian academics” had been emailing him asking him to join BDS and he decided to listen to them.
But these “Palestinian academics” he decided to honor are for the most part pseudo-intellectuals that merely promote the Arab tribal narrative against the Jews. Few people know that the BDS movement Hawking supports was created by the same Arab Jew-haters of the International Solidarity Movement who riot every week in Judea and Samaria and promote a false narrative of lies all across the US and UK college systems against the Jews and Israel every day.
Palestinian “academics” in most cases promote lies for their cause, not education, a form of tribalism that believes that destruction of the Jews “by any means necessary” is a worthy pursuit.
One of the key founders of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel is ISM leader Professor Jess Ghannam, a psychotic psychologist from the University of California medical school in San Francisco. I attended - undercover - one of Ghannam’s recruiting sessions for ISM rioters to make their way to the "West Bank" to stage riots.
Hawking’s support of BDS is news, not because it shows any intellectual reasoning behind BDS, but because it shows how so-called intellectuals in our society and universities really are no better than the rest of us.
Ghannam openly lied that evening to the audience to gather donations and acolytes to his cause: he openly stated to his audience that Israel has “Jew-only” hotels where Arabs are not allowed to rent rooms (in a lame attempt to suggest Israel is like the old Jim Crow South in 50’s America and to falsely suggest Israel is an “apartheid” state); that Arab citizens of Israel are not allowed to vote; even that Arab citizens of Israel are not allowed to own businesses. All lies.
Ghannam, who was born in the U.S., but was a pro-communist radical at UC Berkeley where he earned his PhD, complained to his audience that while he was visiting in Israel, he was at a checkpoint where an IDF soldier on checking his ID remarked that his family also was from Mount Tamalpais in the Bay Area near where Ghannam lived as a U.S. citizen. “Imagine!” Ghannam said to his audience, “Here’s an American Jew asking me for my ID in my country!”
Only minutes before, though, he said he was born in the United States and raised there. At yet another such conference at San Francisco State, where American communists and supporters of attorney Lynne Stewart gathered to urge her release from prison for aiding the Blind Sheik in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 after the FBI recorded her announcing her support for Al Qaeda,
Ghannam (who is white) declared himself a victim of racism as a person of color persecuted by the Israelis . It was Ghannam set up the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel website to promote his lies against Israel (for a better perspective on this, visit the spoof site of his website at www.pacbi.com). The sad fact is that Jess Ghannam enjoys a well-paid sinecure at the University of California hospital funded by a Jewish philanthropist who is strongly pro-Israel but too weak-kneed to remove him. Ghannam was no doubt part of Hawking’s inspiration to support BDS.
Another BDS pseudo-academic is Manzar Foroohar at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Iranian-born Foroohar teaches fabricated history of the founding of Israel where “Jewish terrorists” attacked peace loving innocent Arabs to steal their country prior to the founding of Israel in 1948. Arab terrorism doesn’t exist for her. Foroohar has been accused numerous times by Jewish students of anti-Semitism in her lectures. Despite this, she was going to be placed in a position on the governor’s task force to educate faculty in how to not be anti-Semitic by the teacher’s union until I blew the whistle on her and the union, after which she was removed.
Do you think Hawking knows about these people? It’s doubtful. But would such knowledge make a difference? That, too, is doubtful. Hawking no doubt has other motives guiding his joining the BDS movement. The Arabs he has joined politically with have a belief system in Allah, yes, but those in the BDS movement for the most part are communist, atheistic nihilists who regard BDS as part of communistic world revolution against the Jews.
Hawking is a nihilist also. He was amoral concerning his own marriage, so why should it surprise anyone he is equally amoral when it comes to showing support to Arab terrorists masquerading as human rights advocates and seeking to starve out the Jews?
After all, everything came from nothing to Hawking, so why ascribe morals and meaning to life or even to refuse to cooperate with starving out the Jews of Israel?
