If you want to express your appreciation to Stephen Hawking for his courageous gesture, there’s a petition here.
It reads:
To:
Stephen Hawking
Thank you for supporting the international call to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, and adherence to the Academic Boycott of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. We appreciate the courage it takes to stand against apartheid Israel.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
After I signed, the site, change.org, invited me to sign another one: “Pledge your support for President Obama’s second-term agenda.” Thanks anyway for that one…
And another one here: http://org.salsalabs.com/o/641/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=13380
How do you know the message will in fact get to Stephen Hawking? Who manages/owns the site change.org? Is it not possible to email Stephen Hawking directly?
Thanks we need to support Stephen Hawking any way we can for doing such an honorable and brave thing. Go Hawking!
Change.org Inc is a for profit organization that hosts petitions for progressive causes. I think their business plan is to bill the sponsor of the petition for each signature. I wonder if they are using the Hawking thank-you as a loss leader to attract people to sign paying petitions?
Now that would be a weird development if BDS/Hawking is being used as a draw to gain support for Obama?
With a thank you to Noam Chomsky as well.
Noam Chomsky was behind lobby to get Stephen Hawking to boycott Israel conference
By Robert Booth, The Guardian
Friday, May 10, 2013 15:06 EDT
For the full story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/10/noam-chomsky-was-behind-lobby-to-get-stephen-hawking-to-boycott-israel-conference/