Maybe he’s getting impatient for those 72 virgins.

Little Al on May 8, 2013 at 1:24 pm

He is someone who has been living off of his reputation for years now. I would not burn his books, but simply turn them in to a used bookstore for cash. Dr. Hawking has diminished himself for the sake of a religion that would not tolerate his existence for a minute.

Worry01 on May 8, 2013 at 1:26 pm

How can we question the intelligence of a man who can be constructed with Legos?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8355/8405740013_f5505a66dc_z.jpg

PDMac60 on May 8, 2013 at 1:29 pm

With this move Hawkings exposes himself as primarily a world class hack-ademic who sorely needs to book before he speaks on the subject of “Palestine”.

Like body like mind in the case of this esteemed physicist.

lee of the lower case "l" on May 8, 2013 at 1:30 pm

your own behaviour showing how “Liberal” you are and how much tolerance you have for others opinion.
Looks you got tiny but yet dysfunctional brain.

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo on May 8, 2013 at 1:33 pm

Having a Ph.D is so overrated!

People confuse intelligence with morality! They are not the same.

Israel won’t miss Stephen Hawking.

NormanF on May 8, 2013 at 1:41 pm

The irony is someone as crippled as him would get the “Leon Klinghoffer” treatment from Muslims who do not tolerate weak and disabled persons.

As a completely deaf person, I have to say I’m offended at his behavior. Then again, nothing out of the UK is exactly a surprise these days. There are good reasons why its changing into Londonistan and why Mohammed is the most popular baby boys’ name in that country.

Its never too late to join the global jihad.

NormanF on May 8, 2013 at 1:49 pm

I put this guy in the same class as Bill Gates. Gates has an IQ of 160. How do we know? He said so! If this guy want to claim he is a genius, he can, but I don’t believe either one of them.

burt on May 8, 2013 at 1:58 pm

If you join BDS against Israel – you’re a moron and a moral cretin.

Being pro-Israel these days takes courage and perseverance. I know what side I am on.

And I don’t have Hawking’s IQ to know the right call to make here.

NormanF on May 8, 2013 at 2:07 pm

Genius in one field doesn’t prove any intelligence in another. History is full of geniuses who made silly pronouncements (Edison and the AC-DC controversy is one example). He has also made some other nutty observations in the past too. Same as celebrities who do the same. I also wonder what his current wife’s politics are as an influence here.

Richard on May 8, 2013 at 2:19 pm

@Aarab Shafter

Just as bad huh Aaron?
Can you explain why the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) would feel qualified to speak on behalf of Stephen Hawking’s intentions?
Fabricating a story is not the same as reporting it Aaron.

“Organizers said an email from Hawking cited the boycott as a reason not to attend.” – MailOnline

Norman, Aaron is most likely not a Jew even though he quotes an Israeli source.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 2:40 pm

Hawking’s legacy and relevance has become increasingly questionable in recent years so joining the boycott might be seen as an effort to maintain his public profile.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 2:44 pm

I know this is bad of me but Hawking gives me the creeps. I apologize for my meanness but he does.

lexi on May 8, 2013 at 2:56 pm

@Aarab shafter,
I didn’t need this story to refute your garbage Aaron. Try doing a little research before posting a rebuttal.

With friends like you who needs enemies?

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 3:21 pm

This just proves that you can be highly educated and be very brilliant at many stuff, but a total dumbass on issues such as this which pertains to humanity and sanity. To me, Stephen Hawking is an educated moron, simple as that, clearly the man is totally indoctrinated with propaganda coming from arab regimes and Islamic regimes across the middle east when they slander and defame Israel.

I support Israel regarding humanity, sanity, reasoning, etc., rather than for religious issues where the religious-right here in the US support Israel for that (it’s the religious right’s opinion to support Israel for religious issues).

And I don’t know what religious preference Mr. Hawking is, if he’s an atheist or agnostic and he supports the arab causes, then he’s a bigger dumbass then I can imagine. If he’s an atheist or agnostic, those who are agnostic & atheist living in arab and muslim nations are treated like dogsh*t, their persecuted, executed to death because of their belief system, discriminated against, etc., and we all know that’s a fact of reality on how muslims in the middle east treat Christians, jews, atheists, agnostics, pagans, humanists, feminists, etc.

“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”

Sean R. on May 8, 2013 at 3:27 pm

Some people say that Hawking’s head is in the stars, but I think it is up his ass. He has been riding (literally) on his reputation for more than thirty years. Had he not had ALS, would anyone be listening to him? Incidentally, the technologies he uses to move and communicate were partially developed in, gasp, ISRAEL. Let’ help him boycott Israel and toss him out of his chair. Don’t worry, he has a lousy right hook. Typical British anti-Semite.

Jonathan e. Grant on May 8, 2013 at 3:40 pm

The Prof. joins others who Moses correctly identified as false idols.

Nir Leiu on May 8, 2013 at 3:46 pm

Having a high IQ does not make you Albert Einstein.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 3:47 pm

Ignorance is bliss. I feel emberrased that I had to google him.

max on May 8, 2013 at 4:25 pm

Being a brilliant physicist doesn’t preclude being a rotten human being. This creep dumped his wife who had looked after him for yours, because he fancied his *nurse*. And now he does this. Basically, he’s a shit.

Mirren on May 8, 2013 at 4:34 pm

Hawking first accepts the invitation to attend, then waits until the event is about to start and gives notice that he is declining attending because of his support for the Palestinians; all done in an effort to generate negative publicity against Israelis. Like a lot of Christians, Hawking cloaks his anti-Semitism behind a veil of supposed support for the Palestinians.

King David on May 8, 2013 at 5:02 pm

Hawking’s did not come up with the expanding universe concept. His best work was over 30 years ago and was probably based on the work of Jewish graduate students.

Hawking’s was not an Einstein nor was he a Di Vinci or Copernicus. His greatest achievement was cheating on his wife even while in a crippled state, and promoting himself as view scientists would even think to do.

He is a douchebag on wheels.

Jonathan E Grant on May 8, 2013 at 5:09 pm

Dementia most assuredly. Or his major patron is from a muslim. Either way he is also an atheist, denying the almighty.

jake49 on May 8, 2013 at 5:14 pm

@King Tut David
Who’s worse?
Self ingratiating moral cowards like Hawkins(who’s robot voice has possibly been hijacked)
or idiots like Aaron Shafthead who try to play by their rules.

I’m not sure to what extent Hawkins is now a managed entity since even his university no longer seems to know his position.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 5:18 pm

As Will Rogers said, “there’s nothing more ignorant than an educated man outside the area of his education,” and Dr. Hawking proves that again.
I have often said that money gives you the opportunity to fully express the depth and breadth of your stupidity, because having money does not guarantee you have sense (see the Rogers quote above).
And as for Hawking and his nurse, aren’t men about as faithful as their situation demands? The wealthier a man is, the less likely he is to be faithful. See above.

Windy Wilson on May 8, 2013 at 5:20 pm

I think Hawkins may now be a hostage of his carers, he’s been gradually losing control of communications many of which are now interpreted.

You had a similar situation with Bertrand Russel towards the end of his life where he was essentially hijacked in his senility.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 5:32 pm

Sometimes his head is tilted to the left and other times to the right.

Is this significant?

He is appearing to be just another liberal fake phony fraud.

Panhandle on May 8, 2013 at 5:40 pm

I never could stand the smugness of this man. The word “genius” is ridiculously overused. It is often applied to whomever gets famous enough and says so about himself. Don’t forget Obama was a brilliant genius until we all found out otherwise.
I’d need to know on what test a score of 160 was obtained as those I’ve used do not have that as a possible score. Just sayin’…….

Cat K on May 8, 2013 at 5:44 pm

I hereby declare a boycott of England !!

The evil Anglo Saxons are illegally occupying our homeland and have been for over a millenia.

Signed,

The Picts

I think that Hawking’s boycott is worth just about as much. He may be smart in science but he is a moron when it comes to current affairs and history.

jimmyPx on May 8, 2013 at 7:09 pm

To live as long as he has lived with ALS is nothing short of amazing. He is a brilliant physicist for goodness sake, the likes of which there are hundreds. He is not the Messiah. I have read his scholarly works as required reading, but I couldn’t give a shit what he has to say about much of anything else.

#1 Vato on May 8, 2013 at 7:22 pm

You know Jimmy…

“I think that kind of stuff is generally destructive and incendiary. I want to look at Muslim brothers and sisters, especially the ones who are American citizens as just that,” stated Associate Pastor Rocky Marlowe of United Methodist Church of Kirkwood.

Anybody with a child over 4 years knows that the critical phrase in this is “I want”.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 7:22 pm

“The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BCUP), which supports the academic boycott of Israel …”

What few realize is that the first Palestinian institutions of high learning were established by … Israel. Yep. By 1967, when Israel took over the territories there wasn’t a single college to be found.

I’m also intrigued by Hawking’s reference to advice from “Palestinian colleagues”. Given that he no doubt has far more Jewish and/or Israeli colleagues in his discipline, are they too engaged in their work, or too disinterested in Hawking’s foolish politics? And how ironic that some of the leading research on ALS is taking place in the one place he chooses to boycott.

Raymond in DC on May 8, 2013 at 7:48 pm

Hawking is NOT a “brilliant physicist”, or anything of the kind!

1 Corinthians 1:27,

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”

And such are ALL evolutionist “scientists”

Dale Zalaoras on May 8, 2013 at 8:35 pm

Keep on shriveling up hawking until you become a teensy tiny black whole of anti semitism

Kirche on May 8, 2013 at 8:38 pm

LOL Kirche,
What you mean is your proxy Hawkins is about to disappear into his own event horizon.

O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for friends. [Surah V, v. 51]

The most vehement of mankind in hostility [are] the Jews and the idolators.[Surah V, v. 82]

Fight against such of those [Jews and Christians] … until they pay for the tribute readily, being brought low.[Surah IX, v. 29]

Allah fighteth against them [the Jews]. How perverse they are![Surah IX, v. 30]

Believers, many are the rabbis and the monks who defraud men of their possessions… Proclaim a woeful punishment to those that hoard up gold and silver and do not spend it in Allah’s cause…. their treasures shall be heated in the fire of Hell…. [Surah IX, v. 26-34]

They [the Jews] spread evil in the land …. [Surah V, v. 62-66]

[The Jews] knowingly perverted [the word of Allah], know of nothing except lies … commit evil and become engrossed in sin. [Surah II, v. 71-85]

Can he find his reflection there?

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 8:44 pm

Such is his nature

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 9:00 pm

Stephen Hawking explains his love for Israel (Parody!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmZuh8cCrk&feature=youtu.be

dddd on May 8, 2013 at 9:26 pm

“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
? Albert Einstein

Whatever, Einstein was a nobody who never accomplished anything anyway.

Jimmy Russ on May 8, 2013 at 9:48 pm

What really makes my blood boil is that THE GUARDIAN, one of the most egregious pro-Arab publications in Great Britain, which is arguably the most anti-Israel country in the EU, has the gall to be running a poll. Are you ready? “Is Stephen Hawking right to join academic boycott of Israel?” Right now, it’s about 2/3 in support of his boycott, of course. It’s hardly a surprise, given THE GUARDIAN’s Arab apologist readership. What I don’t get, though, is when they’re going to wake see they’re about to be subsumed by shariya law.

Elana Starr on May 8, 2013 at 10:04 pm

I agree, Elana! If only they ran that poll on the completely fair and balanced http://www.debbieschlussel.com ! Then you would surely have a more accurate statistical view!

Jimmy Russ on May 8, 2013 at 10:07 pm

On a hilarious side note, the machine Hawking uses to speak was developed in Israel by Intel’s Israeli division.

DavidW on May 8, 2013 at 10:13 pm

Brains have nothing to do with moral discernment.

crispinrobles on May 8, 2013 at 10:48 pm

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA needs to take a good look at HIS country, and Boycott Occupied Norhern Ireland.

The United Kingdom also occupies Wales and Scotland, and have all but eliminated the latter’s native language.

Don’t buy any Hawking books – they’re as overated as he is, and he can’t even get it up. #Overcompensation

Joseph on May 8, 2013 at 10:51 pm

You guys are idiots if you think Hawking’s boycott of Israel is unfounded or detestable.

Null on May 8, 2013 at 11:05 pm

“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”

There is no recorded evidence that Einstein ever said this quotation.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 11:11 pm

Franz, Jimmy Russ is just a typical IslamoNazi verminous scumbag spreading lies.

For the origins of that phony quotation, see this link:

http://skepticaesoterica.com/debunking-fake-albert-einstein-quotes/

Basically, the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel scumbags who develop these quotations start with a real quotation so that they can capture a little of the original style, then they rework to insert their bullsheis anti-Israel or anti-Jewish slant. It’s really pretty easy to do. Lying is always easy, especially if you’re a compulsive liar, like most anti-Israel and anti-Jewish lowlifes inevitably are.

Ralph Adamo on May 8, 2013 at 11:36 pm

@Jimmy Russ
Let’s hear about it Jimmy.

Any more fantasy quotations in your magical mystery tour world where a tiny state like Israel is even in the position to do to the Arabs what the Arabs(with a little help from their Nazi sponsors) wanted to do to them.

I mean if they weren’t busy actually trying to build a life for themselves.
Didn’t think so.

Frankz on May 8, 2013 at 11:43 pm

That’s right folks, History isn’t true because randombasementblogger.com told me so.

Jimmy Russ on May 8, 2013 at 11:45 pm

It all starts with being willingly blind and deaf to the Reality of G-D.

From the Christian New Testament – 2 Corinthians 4:4 – In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light

Jack on May 9, 2013 at 12:46 am

You know it’s worth remarking that even Hawking’s scientific achievements are exaggerated, many of his fellow physicists, astrophysicists and the like feel that way. That there are others more deserving of fame who the general public don’t have a clue about (and dare I say it, many of them are Jewish). Hawking’s work on exploding black holes is entirely speculative and unproven (it’s why he has never won the Nobel Prize. The pro-Israel economist Steven Plaut for one just wrongly assumes he has won it in Plaut’s otherwise good article taking Hawking to task at his blog for example). Hawking is also dependent for his scientific ideas/speculations re black holes on numerous others who came before him, who the general public don’t know about – such as Schwarzschild and Bekenstein. Hawking holds the Newton chair at Cambridge which gives him a big boost as far as his scientific reputation is concerned, and his tragic disease also is used to pump up his reputation, as in ‘the poor invalid genius’. A lot of is marketing.

Also Hawking’s philosophy is third-rate, his ‘the universe came into existence from nothing, it created itself’ is laughable, and he has rightly been taken to task for this from a fair number of philosophers of science and even his fellow physicists.

PS Richard Dawkins is also anti-Semitic (look it up, if you seek ye shall find) but nobody with a clue considers him a great scientist, just a popular science popularizer.

Larry in Tel Aviv on May 9, 2013 at 3:06 am