re: #715 tokyobk

Though it does seem that Dawkins signed the Brit academic anti-Israel petition which is a down-ding, imo.

Slight correction:

The following correction was published in the Guardian, Thursday July 11, 2002

In the past three months we have published a number of stories, letters and comments about rival petitions launched by university academics proposing, or opposing, the severing of links with Israeli institutions. Recently, some articles have begun to confuse who has signed up to which of two texts critical of Israel and mounted on a joint website (pjpo.org). To try to clarify as succinctly as possible: what Oxford professors Colin Blakemore and Richard Dawkins endorsed with others was the call for Europeans to suspend scientific grants and contracts until Israelis “abide by UN resolutions and open serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians”. We wrongly listed them as signatories to a separate declaration by the Open University’s Steven Rose and others who say they “can no longer in good conscience continue to cooperate with official Israeli institutions including universities”.http://guardian.co.uk