Boycott 'Israel Days of Science'

The Independent newspaper in the UK is leading with a frontpage story about the boycott campaign today, according to BBC Newsnight last night. [UPDATE - Indy story is here] . They seem to be a bit late with the story as the letter was written to the Guardian two weeks ago. The Indpendent increasingly comes over as more of a magazine than a newspaper these days. I suspect its days are numbered but hey, check out the story while you still can.

From twocircles.net

Two British museums are being urged to cancel plans to hold so-called ‘Israel Days of Science’ events next month which are seen as a public relations exercise by the Zionist regime following its latest slaughter of over 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza.
The calls are being led by many academics, including Labour MP, Professor Ian Gibson (pictured), who said the events at the Science Museum in London and Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in north-west England were “an attempted celebration of Israel.”
“In the immediate aftermath of the indiscriminate slaughter and attempted annihilation of all the infrastructure of organised society in Gaza, how can this ‘celebration’ be allowed to borrow some respectability from the use of these distinguished institutions?” Gibson asked.

Letter to the Guardian on 16 Feb signed by 400 academics

Pickets have been called to protest against the museum
decision to promote scientists and universities who are
"complicit in the Israeli occupation and in the policies and
weaponry recently deployed to such disastrous effect in Gaza".
SEE http://tinyurl.com/bztfj6

MANCHESTER Tues 3rd March, from 10am
See http://manchesterstopwar.org

LONDON :THURSDAY 5 MARCH, 9.30AM,
SCIENCE MUSEUM
EXHIBITION ROW
LONDON SW7 2DD

Called by Brick Up supported by Stop the War Coalition.

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