Noam Chomsky had to cool his heels for four hours before being told he wasn’t welcome in Israel.
Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the prominent speakers against the Israeli policy, was stopped Sunday while trying to enter Israel through the Allenby Bridge, sources in the Birzeit University in Ramallah told Ynet.
According to the officials, Chomsky was scheduled to deliver a lecture at the university and was detained at the border crossing for more than four hours. A human rights activists who was with Chomsky at the crossing confirmed that the 81-year-old linguist was not allowed to enter Israel.
Hm, let’s think. Why on earth wouldn’t they want Noam Chomsky to lecture Palestinians in Ramallah? Hm…
Addressing the comparison between Israel and South Africa, Chomsky said, “It’s not exactly like the South African apartheid. In some respects it’s not as bad, but in some respects it’s worse.â€
“For decades, Israel has been killing and kidnapping civilians in Lebanon…bringing them to Israel, imprisoning them, keeping them as hostages…but two Israel soldiers are captured at the border (and it) justifies a US invasion,†he said. “It’s a comment of us and what we go along with.â€
Um—what? Israel has been kidnapping civilians? Really? Funny, no one else seems to be complaining about that. Looks like Chomsky has gone off the deep end into conspiracy theory land. Which fits. No wonder they kept him out. There are enough conspiracy theories floated around the territories without adding his to them.
Chomsky has a habit of making these sort of assertions, and not just about Israel, as if they were unquestioned fact. No one ever calls him on it and eventually lies become truths. Chomsky’s vicious and visceral anti-Israelism is overt; his father, William Chomsky, was a noted Hebrew scholar. Personally, I wouldn’t draw any conclusions about his psychological makeup from this but you know, other people might.
Several decades ago in his “The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War,” Robert James Maddox cited chapter and verse of Chomsky either twisting evidence out of context or simply making up quotations and facts out of whole cloth. The fact that no one on the left had any particular response to that was one reason why I began to learn that whatever the left’s proclaimed values, its actual values are something else.
By the way, one absolute proof that Israel is not in fact kidnapping Lebanese civilians is that if it were it would be a source of worldwide outrage and many, many UN resolutions.
The fact that Chomsky is Jewish only illuminates the pressing need for us to come up with some form of excommunication.
The only good point in this article is the sentence “81-year-old linguist”!
I wonder if before he passes, he will ever come to realize the damage he has done to Israel and the Jewish people by his constant vicious stream of self loathing hatred – probably not!
That’s right. Israel kidnaps random Lebanese civilians… strictly for the hell of it. I suppose it’s because the Jews are just plain bad.
Bad. Bad. Bad.
And to think I once admired this man. I’m ashamed to admit it, but I did.
“The anarchist libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky told Press TV on Wednesday that the nation of Israel is more like a military base for the United States.”
Oh really? How can it be both a military base for the US *and* a military state set up by Britain to protect the Suez Canal?
Those guys need to find a story and stick to it!