Nearly 40 American Nobel Prize laureates have signed a statement condemning boycotts and divestment campaigns against Israeli academics, academic institutions and research centers.
Several Bay Area Nobel laureates are among the signers of the statement. They include chemist Roger Kornberg, economist Kenneth Arrow and physicist Martin Perl of Stanford University, and physician Stanley Prusiner of UCSF.
The statement was coordinated by Kornberg and Steven Weinberg of the University of Texas, and it was issued Nov. 3 under the auspices of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
It reads in part: “[We] appeal to students, faculty colleagues and university officials to defeat and denounce calls and campaigns for boycotting, divestment and sanctions against Israeli academics, academic institutions and university-based centers and institutes for training and research, affiliated with Israel.”
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East is a grassroots network of more than 60,000 faculty and scholars on 4,000 campuses throughout the world.