{"id":43246,"date":"2014-05-26T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=43246"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:34:57","slug":"hawking-and-the-growing-israel-boycott-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/05\/hawking-and-the-growing-israel-boycott-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 12, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking&#8217;s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott &#8220;a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FK7xGnxr_RU#t=11<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 12, 2013 &#8211; Activists in Gaza consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking&#8217;s decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott &#8220;a huge victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) movement&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}