Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
British 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.
100 American academics call for boycott of Israeli settlements 24 Apr 2013 More than 100 American professors and teaching staff at Columbia University have called for five American companies to withdraw their investment in Israeli jails over ``breaches of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,'' the website of Israeli TV channel 7 said.