Here's a suggestion for Hawking -- which I offer on the (admittedly thin) conceit that he might read advice offered to him by a Canadian opinion writer: Go to Israel. Attend the conference. Take the podium. Tell off your hosts. Tell that that their current policy is wrong. Be part of the debate. Many Israelis will agree with you (in fact, I would probably agree with much of it myself). And they will take you more seriously because you will have had the courage to speak your mind on Israeli soil — as opposed to just becoming a quantum-mechanical version of Naomi Klein.
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