A Palestinian boy and Israeli soldier in front of the Israeli West Bank BarrierJUSTIN MCINTOSH
The European Commission should stop funding a research project coordinated by the United Kingdom's Natural History Museum (NHM) because of the involvement of an Israeli laboratory that operates in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, according to a letter written by more than 20 British scientists and other public figures. The 5-year, €5.19 million project, called NanoReTox, began in 2008 and is seeking to elucidate the environmental and health impacts of nanoparticles used in cosmetic products.
"We find it almost inconceivable that a national institution of the status of the Natural History Museum should have put itself in this position," wrote the authors of the letter, which was published in British paper The Independent last week. "We call on the museum to take immediate steps to ...
