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Boycotting Israel Is an Attack on Science
(Wall Street Journal) Leor S. Weinberger - I'm a professor who leads a research lab in San Francisco that develops medicines to treat viruses and cancers. During a recent visit to Israel, academic deans showed me critiques of papers submitted to journals that assailed Israel's military actions instead of weighing the article's scientific merits. At a cancer research seminar in Barcelona, colleagues grilled an Israeli professor not about his findings but about Israel's war against Hamas. Sidelining scientists and their innovations is everyone's loss. Israel has contributed hundreds of innovations to the world. The country's scientists are credited with inventing drip irrigation (alleviating global-food crises), reverse osmosis (enabling desalinization for drinking water), and the leading cancer therapy for resistant lymphoma (which has treated more than 27,000 patients in the U.S. alone). The writer is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.