This is remarkable not only for the straight talk from a Nobel winning scientist but also because it was published as Local News in a small town Missouri newspaper.
Nobel Prize winner calls for boycott of Israel
George P. Smith, the 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, called for a boycott of Israel during his lecture Thursday morning at the 14th Hancock Symposium.
by Quinn Wilson Sep. 23 2019 @ 9:50pm
On Thursday during the Hancock Symposium at Westminster College, George P. Smith was presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Charles David Roebuck, Westminster’s vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018.
The 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry called for a boycott of Israel during his lecture Thursday morning at the 14th Hancock Symposium.
George P. Smith addressed the crowd at Westminster College on a topic he considers himself an “amateur” in. For 15 years, Smith has studied the Palestinian struggle for equal rights living in Israel and the Palestinian exodus from 1947-49, also known as the Nakba.
“A catastrophe happened to Palestine. More than half of the Palestinian-Arab indigenous people of Palestine were expelled from the part of Palestine that was to become Israel,” Smith said.
During the Nakba, mass looting took place in various cities such as Lydda and Ramle, Smith said. More than 50,000 Palestinians were displaced from these two cities. Smith explained the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were the only areas that resisted depopulation.
“Any human activity is complicated, but is it so complicated that we can’t be appalled at this crime against humanity? I just don’t think so,” Smith said.
There is plenty to disagree with concerning Israel.
Leaving aside the issue of self defense for a moment, Israel has engaged in straight up terrorism against Palestinians, provoked war with Syria and Lebanon, and steered US foreign policy in that region for 70 years. We invaded Iraq ultimately on Israel’s behalf.