Nobel Prize Laureate Cancels U.K. Trip Due To Anti-Israel Sentiment

American Professor Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas has canceled his speaking engagement at a London's Imperial College. He noted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment in the U.K. as prime motivations for his withdrawal.

Weinberg won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1979 and had been invited to speak at the university this July. He said that his decision was motivated by Britain's National Union of Journalists decision to boycott Israeli products.

"I see in the British press and the BBC signs of a very strong anti-Israel bias - a kind of blind hostility that whatever Israel does, it is always in the wrong." Weinberg said. "This represents a widespread feeling among British journalists." However, he stated that he was not calling for a British boycott.


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