Israel is an Apartheid state committing Ethnic Cleansing; just today it announced the building of 296 new illegal settler units on the occupied West Bank. Israel tortures people, even to death like happened to Arafat Jaradat earlier this year.

Since 1967 Israel has imprisoned 750 000 Palestinians and now stops Palestinian access to 51 % of occupied West Bank according to the World Bank.

Israel's current government includes figures like American Naftali Bennett, who claims that Israel will not accept any kind of Palestinian state, not even an archipelago of bantustans that Benyamin Netanyahu plans.

Bennett claims that even 200 years into ther future Israel will be occupying those part of West Bank that it won't annex, condemning Palestinians into eternal slavery.

Stephen Hawking is right in boycotting Israel and all people of conscience should boycott Israel.