#Tomorrow13 Physicist Hawking joins BDSers, pulls out of President's Conference

Physicist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of the Presidential Conference, to be held in Jerusalem next month (yes, I hope to attend, God willing), as a protest against Israel's treatment of the 'Palestinians.'

Hawking, that chose not to announce his decision to pull out of the
conference publicly, wrote a letter to Peres telling the president he
decided "to respect the boycott, based upon his