Noam Chomsky, a radical leftist, a man filled with hatred, the only philosopher supporting left intellectuals, and perhaps one of the most immoral men in the world, convinced Hawking not to go. This is neither a criticism of Hawking, nor support for israeli policy, but a statement about Chomsky’s career as a purveyor of destructive political ideology.
It’s also proof that most intellectuals are terribly incompetent outside of their direct discipline. And it’s further evidence that academia is insuated from and fails to understand basic economics, basic geopolitics, and have unfortunately adopted not the skeptical empiricism that science recommends, but instead, much of the ideological platform of the postmodernist movement, and it’s intentional misrepresentation of the nature of man.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Stephen-Hawking-cancel-his-2013-trip-to-Israel