NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS JOIN THE CONDEMNATION OF THE PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

A group of leading professors at the University of Chicago, joined by scientists from around the world has initiated a petition in response to calls for a European boycott of research links with Israel. The anti-boycott petition condemns the boycott calls and urges scientists to foster and develop further scientific ties with their Israeli colleagues. By now, more than 1900 professors and researchers from all over the world have signed the anti-petition and signatures continue to arrive. The list of signatories includes many world class scientists, respected leaders in their fields of research, among them Nobel Laureates, Fields medalists (the most prestigious prize in mathematics), members of American National Academy of Sciences and members of national academies of sciences in other countries. This is an astonishing show of unity and support for Israel among scientists.

An editorial in the United Kingdom's "Nature", the leading scientific journal, noted that "Such boycotts are misguided and should be opposed in favour of constructive initiatives."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, with 400,000 constituent families has endorsed the counter-campaign led by distinguished academicians and is carrying the petition online.

"Unfortunately the European-led efforts to sever research links with Israeli Institution of Higher learning, is only part of a more sweeping effort to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish State", said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Please, find below the text of the petition and a partial list of signatories. The complete list of signatures is available at the petition website.

The nation of Israel is going through a difficult time. Its very existence is being targeted by daily murderous terrorist attacks. Hundreds of innocent people, women and children have been killed by homicide bombers in the recent months. At the same time anti-Semitic attacks have become a daily occurrence in Europe. These developments pain us and concern us.

We are aware that some European academics have called for a cultural and scientific boycott of Israel. We believe that this call is immoral, dangerous and misguided, and indirectly encourages the terrorist murderers in their deadly deeds. The government of Israel has the right and the duty to protect its citizens against terror. We sincerely hope that upon further reflection these scientists will understand the dangers of their request. We also call upon all our colleagues to express their support of the people of Israel in these trying times by fostering and developing scientific ties with their colleagues from the State of Israel.

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Here's a nice point of comparison between a medieval versus a modern civilization.

Recent Contributions to civilization: Arabs vs. Jews

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The Contribution of Muslims to 20th century civilization
19.6% of World's Population = 1,200,000,000 Muslims

Nobel Prize Winners:

Literature

1957 Albert Camus
1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yasser Arafat

Chemistry

1990 Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine

1960 Peter Brian Medawar
1998 Ferid Mourad

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The Contribution of the Jewish People to 20th century civilization:
0.2% of World's Population = 14,100,000

Nobel Prize Winners:

Literature

1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer

World Peace

1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Chemistry

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1995 - Martin Perl

Regards
Claudine

CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland

Abdus Salam, a Muslim, shared the 1979 Nobel prize for Physics with Glashow and Weinberg. I know it doesn't change the point, but to exclude such a notable name looks suspicious.

It was, no doubt, an oversight.

I don't believe that Sir Peter Medawar was himself a Muslim, or Niels Bohr himself a Jew.

I suppose it would depend on the definition of Muslim. If we were to go by that of the Taliban, then none of these Nobel Prize winners could be Muslim. If we were to define Muslim as someone whose parentage was, at some point, Muslim, regardless of personal religious devotion, then, if Medawar's Lebanese father was a Muslim or born into a Muslim heritage, then Medawar could be so considered. If the latter, then this is a gimme to the list of Muslim Nobel Prize winners (including Albert Camus who seemed to have been placed there for supporting Algerian causes; that is, even less a Muslim than Cat Stevens).

As far as Niels Bohr:

His mother, Ellen Adler Bohr, came from a wealthy Jewish family prominent in Danish banking and parliamentary circles.
--Encyclopedia Britannica

I don't believe that Sir Peter Medawar was himself a Muslim, or Niels Bohr himself a Jew.

Niels Bohr was indeed Jewish. His mother was Jewish (which is what counts), his father was not. If your mother is a Jew, you are a Jew. Very simple :).

Niels Bohr's father was Christian Bohr and his mother was Ellen Adler. Christian Bohr was awarded a doctorate in physiology from the University of Copenhagen in 1880 and in 1881 he became a Privatdozent at the university. Late in the same year he married Ellen, who was the daughter of David Adler, a Jewish politician with a high standing in Danish political and commercial life. Christian and Ellen had three children. The eldest was Jenny born in 1883 in the mansion which David Adler had owned opposite Christiansborg Castle where the Danish Parliament sat. Ellen's mother had continued to live in this house after her husband David Adler died in 1878 and Ellen had gone back to her mother' home to have her child. Two years later Niels was born on his mother's 25th birthday in the same stately home, Ellen again having returned to her mother's house for the birth of her child. The third child of the family, who went on to become a famous mathematician, was Harald Bohr who was two years younger than Niels.

Bohr

I believe that Camus was a non--muslim resident of Algeria, and that Corey and Medawar are/were Christians (Corey an Arab Christian) by family background and baptism anyway. Several of the "Jews" on your list were either converts to Christianity and/or half Jewish (like Niels Bohr) and Christian by baptism and upbringing. (Many scientists of Christian background are nonbelievers, of course. However, a good number of scientists are believing and practicing Christians--there are estmates of 40% for the US. Many Jewiish scientists similarly have no visible connection to Jewish institutions or communities.)

Despite all this, my quibbles have actually helped your case, since I wiped out around half of the muslims from your list, and only a few Jews. And even in the case of the Jews I removed from your list, you can count them as part of the contribution of the Jewish people as a whole to the Nobel Prize winners' group, since they were of Jewish descent.

On a more important note: scientists and others should INCREASE their collaborations with and support of both Israel and Serbia, to spit in the face of the muslim shill pseudo-intellectuals and their islamic pets, who DARE to dictate to the scientific and academic communities!!!!

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