After denied entry to West Bank, Chomsky likens Israel to 'Stalinist regime'
Linguist Noam Chomsky was scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, meet PA Prime Minister Fayyad.
By Amira Hass Tags: Israel news West Bank Noam ChomskyThe Interior Ministry refused to let linguist Noam Chomsky into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday. Chomsky, who aligns himself with the radical left, had been scheduled to lecture at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, and visit Bil'in and Hebron, as well as meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and various Palestinian activists.
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American linguist Noam Chomsky. |
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In a telephone conversation last night from Amman, Chomsky told Haaretz that he concluded from the questions of the Israeli official that the fact that he came to lecture at a Palestinian and not an Israeli university led to the decision to deny him entry.
"I find it hard to think of a similar case, in which entry to a person is denied because he is not lecturing in Tel Aviv. Perhaps only in Stalinist regimes," Chomsky told Haaretz.
Sabine Haddad, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry, confirmed to Haaretz that the officials at the border were from the ministry.
"Because he entered the Palestinian Authority territory only, his entry is the responsibility of the Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories at the Defense Ministry. There was a misunderstanding on our side, and the matter was not brought to the attention of the COGAT."
Haddad told Haaretz that "the minute the COGAT says that they do not object, Chomsky's entry would have been permitted."
Chomsky, a Jewish professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had spent several months at Kibbutz Hazore'a during the 1950s and had considered a longer stay in Israel. He had been invited by the Department of Philosophy at Bir Zeit.
He planned to spend four days in the West Bank and give two lectures.
On Sunday, at about 1:30 P.M. he came to the Israeli side of the border with Jordan. After three hours of questioning, during which the border officer repeatedly called the Interior Ministry for instructions, Chomsky's passport was stamped with "Denied Entry."
With Chomsky, 81, were his daughter Aviva, and a couple of old friends of his and his late wife.
Entry was also denied to his daughter.
Their friends, one of whom is a Palestinian who grew up in Beirut, were allowed in, but they opted to return with Chomsky to Amman.
Chomsky told Haaretz that it was clear that his arrival had been known to the authorities, because the minute he entered the passport control room the official told him that he was honored to see him and that he had read his works.
The professor concluded that the officer was a student, and said he looked embarrassed at the task at hand, especially when he began reading from text the questions that had been dictated to him, and which were also told to him later by telephone.
Chomsky told Haaretz about the questions.
"The official asked me why I was lecturing only at Bir Zeit and not an Israeli university," Chomsky recalled. "I told him that I have lectured a great deal in Israel. The official read the following statement: 'Israel does not like what you say.'"
Chomsky replied: "Find one government in the world which does."
"The young man asked me whether I had ever been denied entry into other countries. I told him that once, to Czechoslovakia, after the Soviet invasion in 1968," he said, adding that he had gone to visit ousted Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek, whose reforms the Soviets crushed.
In response to the official's question, Chomsky said that the subjects of his lectures were "America and the world," and "America at home."
The official asked him whether he would speak on Israel and Chomsky said that because he would talk of U.S. policy he would also comment on Israel and its policies.
He was then told by the official: "You have spoken with [Hassan] Nasrallah."
"True," Chomsky told him. "When I was in Lebanon [prior to the war in 2006] I spoke with people from the entire political spectrum there, as in Israel I also spoke with people on the right."
"At the time I read reports of my visit in the Israeli press, and the articles in the Israeli press had no connection with reality," Chomsky told the border official.
The official asked Chomsky why he did not have an Israeli passport.
"I replied I am an American citizen," Chomsky said.
Chomsky said that he asked the man at border control for an official written explanation for the reason his entry was denied and that "it would help the Interior Ministry because this way my version will not be the only one given to the media."
The official called the ministry and then told Chomsky that he would be able to find the official statement at the U.S. Embassy.
The last time Chomsky visited Israel and the West Bank was in 1997, when he lectured on both sides of the Green Line. He had also planned a visit to the Gaza strip, but because the Palestinian Authority insisted that he be escorted by Palestinian guards, he canceled that part of the visit.
To Haaretz, Chomsky said Sunday that preventing him entry is tantamount to boycotting Bir Zeit University. Chomsky is known to oppose a general boycott on Israel. "I was against a boycott of apartheid South Africa as well. If we are going to boycott, why not the United States, whose record is even worse? I'm in favor of boycotting American companies which collaborate with the occupation," he said. "But if we are to boycott Tel Aviv University, why not MIT?"
Chomsky told Haaretz that he supports a two-state solution, but not the solution proposed by Jerusalem, "pieces of land that will be called a state."
He said that Israel's behavior today reminds him of that of South Africa in the 1960s, when it realized that it was already considered a pariah, but thought that it would resolve the problem with better public relations.
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This Chomsky incident might become the parade example for why Israeli universities should be boycotted. A renowned academic is denied the ability to lecture in a recognized college under Israeli control. Chomsky is not a terrorist, obviously, so the denial of entry must have been based on his political opinions. If "measure for measure" carries any weight in the real world, the same can be done to Israel: Prevent academics from lecturing there based on political considerations.
Poor Chomsky. Like some of us, he still holds out for a free and democratic Jewish homeland. Mthe Jewish state descends into greater chaos and, yes, fascism. Poor Chomsky, poor us.
I thinks its even worser than Iran as a lot of other western countries always say the opposite about Iran
This megalomaniac is deconstructive of anything he touches. The world would have been a better place without him and without the rest of the bunch of self proclaimed leftist intellectuals. Modern plague.
So, in Chomsky's mind, Israel resembles a Stalinist regime. In 2006, about a month before Hezbollah -- a medieval theocratic organization -- murdered two Israel soldiers, Chomsky was filmed hugging and kissing with one of their chief thugs. One might wonder: what do they resemble (in Chomsky's mind, that is)?
Banning an 81 yr old MIT prof with leftist views makes Israel look nondemocratic, and weakens her argument when her academcis are boycotted abroad. Israel's dealing with the West are handled so ham-handedly it's an embarrassment. 'Tis truly the amateur hour at the Interior Ministry. What's more- no one can deny Chomsky's claim- Israel IS behaving like a Stalinist little state.
why do you describe Chomsky as "[aligning] himself with the radical left" and yet not describe your government agencies, who appear to exclude Jews who disagree with them from entering the 'Jewish homeland,' as aligning themselves with the radical right, or, better yet, as being the radical right?
Chomsky used to be a brilliant linguist, but these days are long gone. Now he's just another demented lefty with anti-Israel agenda. Not worth to write about (except for Amira Hass, who shares his views and slanders Israel wherever possible)
Unfortunately, even democracies restrict the right of free speech during periods of war which is the condition that technically exist between the Israelis and Palestinians. If he were to speak in Israel, it would probably be the same?
In addition to posessing a legal passport and not being a known terrorist the Israeli Interior Minister added another requirement to enter Israel: approve the policies of the Israeli government. This additional requirement will ban millions from entering Israel.It is same policy that denied people like Gabriel Garcia Marquez entering the United States or critics of the former Soviet Union to visit there. Is this the way that Israel wants to pursue?
What kind of a question is that when talking to an AMERICAN citizen? Dual loyalties? Asking for them?
Where has gone the notion of freedom of expression, freedom of thought and individual rights, especially in a society where such values are of regarded extremely important
Israel reacts out of fear, fearing what Chomsky will say and the facts and fugures he will present. They were afraid of Judge Goldstone's Report as well, and so they had to defame him and his character. They react out of fear by not letting in UN investigative commissions and the continue to close off Gaza to the international press. A nation, exactly like South Africa, that has a great deal to fear and whose public image is simply beyond repair. An apartheid state trying desperately to prop itself up as best it can, but the cracks are widening.
Unfortunately, even democracies restrict the right of free speech during periods of war which is the condition which technically exist between the Israelis and Palestinians. If he were to speak in Israel, it would probably be the same?
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
The state of Israel is truely becoming with horrible speed an oppresion system that singular in the so called "free world". Almost each month at least one famous international personality is denied access into Israel or even Palestine, From here it's just a step to start forbidding books, then thoughts and some day to put books and people on fire. Obama was already set alight all over Jerusalem, thanks G_d still only his picture. It's extremly interesting to see that the Interior Ministry treated Chomsky in a way that clearly reminds me of the anti-sermitic behaviour of the national-socialist Ge(heime)Sta(ats)Po(lizei): The Israeli security services apparently start to assume that all Jews in the world have to get an Israeli passport, wihich will then be required at Israel's borders and will identify the owner as a Jew. David Star revived? One could think that Chomsky or a Spanish clown are feared more by Israel than Palestinians from the grabbed territories or from abroad. They are usually at least let get in. On behalf of many of my academic collegues in the world I strongly condemn the autoritarian and human rights violating acts of the Israeli government, and call upon the teaching graduate and post-graduate world to stop giving lectures at Israeli universities as long as those universities tacitly accept this and other new forms of educational and cultural apartheid imposed upon Israel and Palestine by the corrupt and virulently nazionist government of Erez Israel. An open letter & petition will be published shortly in Internet Prof. Dr. V.R. Schwartz
It’s very amusing to a radical leftist like Chomsky using the term “Stalinist regime” as an insult. While Stalin was actually around, they called his regime paradise on earth...
to be a legitimate reason to deny Mr. Chomsky entry into Israel just because his viewpoints are critical of Israel or U.S. policies - that's part of a democratic society. Perhaps authorities believe that his theories or ideas incites hatred towards Israel or U.S. but it better to challenge ideas and find holes in arguments and the realities of life. One of my favourite pastimes is to find these contradictions or holes in some socialists ideas, including my father's! Hey, but Israel was also built by the socialists and they tend to be intelligent, compassionate people!
So maybe he meant it as a compliment? Chomsky also is an intimate friend and supporter of Holocaust Deniers. In defending Holocaust Denier Faurisson, MIT professor Noam Chomsky wrote: “I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work." (cited on Wikipedia) Personally – I would let him in and then immediately arrest him for Holocaust Denial.
rejection in Cisjordania´s border is another step down of Israeli´s prestige at international level.
Why should Israel allow an established self hating Jew like Chomsky to enter the country when his express purpose is to vilify Israel to the maximum extent possible? There's nothing immoral about refusing to let your antagonistic neighbour enter your home if his consistent track record supports the expectation that his sole purpose is to pee in it!
This Chomsky incident might become the parade example for why Israeli universities should be boycotted. A renowned academic is denied the ability to lecture in a recognized college under Israeli control. Chomsky is not a terrorist, obviously, so the denial of entry must have been based on his political opinions. If "measure for measure" carries any weight in the real world, the same can be done to Israel: Prevent academics from lecturing there based on political considerations.
Dear poor Noam, I am so sorry that the move of the border guards at Allenby bridge gave you such a great platform. It seems that your scientific work holds little interest for you now. I counted on your publication list about 10 articles published in refereed journals since 1990, lots of talks, published or not, invited lectures, chapters from books, where you were probably invited too. Your publication list has not been updated since 2007. That's OK, Noam, you made great contributions, even if some of them were controversial. Now, you have time on your hands, and you are probably bored to death. In fact, it is a pity that you wanted only to lecture in Bir Zeit, becuase the audience would have gladly approved all your words. Isn't it below you to talk only to audiences who hail you as a prophet? Don't you think that real, serious debate, without twisted quotations and out of context arguments would fit your persona better? How the mighty have fallen! Couldn't you use good old intellectual integrity in your political statements? Or are you so unhappy about losing public attention for your science, that you have to get it from absurd statements? Some people compare your fate to that of the spanish clown - isn'it humiliating for the famous academic Chomsky to be compared to a clown? Poor Noame'le...
Well if you think Israel is a stalin style regime....what wisdom do you really have to offer anyway
Brainless Red Ideologues Babble Incoherently - Syntactically, Semantically AND Grammatically correct.
Disgusting that freedom of speech is down the drain, Israel is becoming more and more undemocratic and totalitarian. I suppose we don't want to hear about the deeds of official Israel, since they are nothing to be proud of. I feel ashamed!
Chomsky calls Israeli behavior "Stalinist". Wait a second. Chomsky also calls the USA "the greatest terrorist state in the world" and sees Israel as America's puppet in spreading terrorism. Surely, then, calling Israel "Stalinist" is a compliment in Chomsky's worldview! It must have been hot waiting out there in the sun yesterday at the Allenby bridge...
Chomsky calls Israeli behavior "Stalinist". Wait a second. Chomsky also calls the USA "the greatest terrorist state in the world" and sees Israel as America's puppet in spreading terrorism. Surely, then, calling Israel "Stalinist" is a compliment in Chomsky's worldview! It must have been hot waiting out there in the sun yesterday at the Allenby bridge...
The Israeli government makes the same mistake my government does; it refuses to let a speaker in because it disagrees with what he says. The people who then don't get to hear what he would have said just read transcripts of what he says overseas, and nobody else cares
Nice move, boys and girls: Israel really has perfected the art of alienating the thinking people of the world.
Here's a man who is always for the people. His universal sense of morality should be an inspiration to any person seeking truth and justice. If you haven't read his work I suggest you check it out whether you think you'll oppose him or not.
A modern kapo for a new form of antisemitism.
So as a tourist he is denied entry for what he thinks, but technically he could move here and get the state to pay for his ticket. LOL and talk as much as he wanted...the irony..
Silencing dissenting voices is indeed more proper of an authoritarian state than of a democracy. Israel is unstoppably sliding towards the dark side.
one of the wisest thinkers around .. and israel is scared of him? with good reason, israel realises in the back of its mind that its wrong... but hates to be reminded of this truth. cant hide much longer
can only harm the peace process,while this self annointed moralist can head for the safety of his home in the USA One has to wonder whether these blinkered dogmatic leftists really need the conflict to continue so they can ride their ideology on its back. Certainly they pretend not to notice who is involved in most of the conflicts in the world. Algeria? Phillipines? Thailand? etc.etc
This decision to deny access to West Jordan is ridiculous and mean, but it is certainly also very bad for the image of Israel in the world. This is not the behaviour of a democratic country, never mind what you think of Noam Chomsky's ideas.
It is an honour to have you on this list of persons denied entry to Israel due to their political beliefs. You will find my name on that list also.
It's a real shame what is going on here. With this Likud-Lieberman-Shas government our country is becoming increasingly undemocratic.
The denial of entry is one of thousands of US-Israel treaty violations. The 1951 Treaty of Friendship and Navigation is supposed to guarantee Americans and Israelis freedom to travel in each other's controlled territories. Clinton has complained. Rice before Clinton complained. Maybe it is time to just have our ICE agency, , randomly choose 10 or 15 new arrivals from each flight on our shores to be sent to the Guam Port of entry for questioning, They can there be examined about their pro-Obama and Pro-Emanuel views of our government before allowing entry to the Marianas. They can then get Homeland Security pass to the rest of the country.
It seems countries are bowing to pressure all over the world to supress freedom of speech, by denying people entry because of politics it shows that the country cannot countenance opinions which its elites do not sanction. In that respect Chomsky is correct, it is stalinist. But Israel is not alone, Britain has let itself down recently as well.
Even if we do not like him, I do not, we should not prevent Chomsky entering and lecturing in the West Bank. It is inconsistent to let any non Israeli Netorei Karta to enter Israel while denying CHOMSKY entry to the West Bank. Are we going to listen only to our echo? I do not approve most of BBC coverage of the Middle East/Israel but I still watch it to see other points of view.
the interior ministry was extremely weak in not allow chomsky to enter the country. he has always spoken out out against injustice in the world and to my knowledge has never been in favor of racism or antisemitism. clearly' there was not misunderstanding. it is pathetic. unbecoming of democratic country.
just right parallel
I wonder if the usual comments will appear about this "anti-Semite" who dares to criticise the Israeli regime.
Israel is no friend to free speech, no friend to democracy and no friend to Americans. Time for America to reconsider its relationship with the regime in Jerusalem.
We have enough gentiles fulminating about and speaking against Israel and do not need him to do the same. Let him try and speak at an Arab university in Egypt in praise of Israel and see if he gets his platform.
I am glad Israel did not let the rabble rouser Chomsky into Israel to lecture to the enemies of Israel. We do not need more incitement, we have plenty!
Chomsky is a genuine world-class academic, the founder of Government Phonology, which has changed completely the way theoretical linguistics and the construction of languages is understood. For Israel to refuse entry to an eminent Jewish academic because he opposes its racist and occupation policies is really the dregs. Israel really has turned into a fascist police state, where freedom of thought is tolerated only if it agrees with the lunatic views of the nationalist-religious right. Leading democracy in the Middle East my backside, it has turned into a repressive little state run by bigoted Jewish Supremacists. I'm sure the US State Department will take note of how Israel handles visiting American academics.
Israel has a remarkable knack for shooting itself in the foot and the exclusion of the world famous academic and political commentator, Noam Chomsky is merely the latest in a series. As one diplomat told me, Israel has the least joined up government of any country he knows. I'm sure (or at least hope) that elements of the Israeli government will be very unhappy about this, for the bad PR if nothing else. However, I also hope that this incident, taken with the storm of criticism of the excellent New Israel Fund, does not point to attempts to stifle criticism of the Israeli Goverment.
Who is kidding whom? Chomsky himself has a long record of supporting Stalinist like policies. He is on record as saying that the old Soviet Union was a better system than that of U.S. or other capitalist nation.
Since most communists were denied entry to the United States during the Cold War does it mean that the US had a "Stalinist regime"?
As a former Linguistics student, I admired Chomsky's work. But after having read his political views/perception of Israel, I have changed my mind. I am glad that Mr. Chomsky feels like a persona non-grata. He deserves nothing better. Yes, democracy should allow him to enter Israel, West Bank, etc., and give anti-Israeli lectures. But this doesn't mean that we need to like or accept him with honors. I am glad than non of my Israeli, American, or Australian professors were like him. They like and appreciate Israel more than this self-hating Jew does. He should learn a lesson from Dershowitz, Lauder, Foxman, etc. rather than Nasrallah and his colleagues. Sadly, his political views have taught me that he is not as bright as I once thought as a freshmen.
This act realy does resemble the kind of blunder of a Soviet state would make in the past, to deny an 81 year old who now gains far more of a victory against the current order than he would have if he had been quietly let in to speak critically of America and Israel--what else is new anyway?
Another Jane Fonda? Another persona non grata.
Unfortunately, even democracies restrict the right of free speech during periods of war which is the condition which technically exist between the Israelis and Palestinians. If he were to speak in Israel, it would probably be the same? In Gaza, speaking against Hamas; he would probably be shot.
is a disappointment and an embarassment.
own intellectuals" .
This is totally ludicrous...but no more so than Daniel Barenboim & the West-East Divan Orchestra having to give their historical Concert in Ramallah with Spanish diplomatic passports. The Israeli government does some truly stupid, counter productive things. If Prof Chomsky is b rave enough to lecture at Bir Zeit then he should certainly be allowed to do so! The parallels with South Africa that seemed so ludicrous to me in the past don't seem so far off the mark now.
Does this mean that at long last Chomsky is now a supporter of Israel. After all he supportes the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and that was even more stalanist than any stalanist regeme
He has always admired "Stalinist" regimes.........
He has always admired "Stalinist" regimes.........
These interior minister officials have already denied entry to the I-Pad, and now to N.Chomsky. Next in line to be denied entry, I guess, is the sunset, so that we will have 24 hours of daylight, and will save energy
These interior minister officials have already denied entry to the I-Pad, and now to N.Chomsky. Next in line to be denied entry, I guess, is the sunset, so that we will have 24 hours of daylight, and will save energy
can't believe they actually made us buy his books back in college ...
Maybe after this treatment by Israel Chomsky will reconsider his opinion and call for boycott, divestment and sanctions. One can only hope.
They should deny him entry to the US next.
That's what he came to do.
The noted Stalinist, Chomsky, condemns Israel as being Stalinist. Makes a change from him comparing Israelis to Nazis, I suppose. Even Eichmann wasn't THAT cynical.
Dear Mr Chomsky, I do not agree with much of what you say BUT I will defend your right to say it. Come to Nofei Aviv Bet Shemesh there are those of us who respect your right to lecture and to debate you on an academic basis. Boycotts are not worthy of us UNLESS they are to boycott groups/individuals who oppose OUR right to exist (ie terror groups, Israeli bashers). Again, I disagree with most of your positions but you should be allowed to speak.
What a comparison. Stalin deported huge masses of people and gave a sh*t about the wellbeing of his own son. That's real love. I forgot about the random executions and the big terror-machine. He should stick to his field of expertise, as he apparently fails, when leaving it.
As Gertrude Stein would have said: "A Chomsky is a Chomsky is a Chomsky".
Maybe the guys at the MOI are missing a few lobes of their brain. To say that: "There was a misunderstanding" ?? is rediculous. Prof. Chomsky is the world's leading expert on linguistics/communication. As a result, his words are extremely well measured and easy to comprehend. There is no better person who is able to be 'understood.'
they should have let the old clown in. most likely, they will do it soon. he's an old ultra-left anti-capitalist anti-us anti-israel clown, with little credentials even in the linquistics. if he was a good one, he would not have compared israel to 'stalinist' regime and would have picked a better word.
Surely from the life-long Marxist Chomsky to be called Stalinist is a compliment. Perhaps he will now see that we are a progressive workers' democratic blah blah and give us his unconditional support - -or maybe only when we recreate the killing fields of Cambodia, an act this amoral Red applauds.
But this time, 5 Druze people who visited their relatives in Syria! http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-refuses-re-entry-to-5-druze-who-made-condolence-call-in-syria-1.290301
and not e. g. of the usa? after all, also the usa, mr. chomsky's home country, denies entry to lots of people, be they scholars, musicians or whatever. here are just 5 examples out of many: U.S. denies entry to four Al Azhar scholars http://www.islamfortoday.com/alazhar02.htm Israeli nuclear scientists denied entry to U.S. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_israel0301_04_12.asp Cat Stevens refused entry to US http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3678694.stm German Security Researcher Denied Entry to U.S. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/07/german-security/ Controversial British writer denied entry to America http://www.list.co.uk/article/7182-controversial-british-writer-denied-entry-to-america/
just as Israel has every right to declare him persona non grata.
Mistake after mistake....The last good argument against an academic boycott just vaporized. This right-wing goverment is driving Israel into total isolation.
But is "Stalinist" good or bad, acording to someone from the radical left. wasn't Stalin himself from this radical left?
This is Israels own reality
I like to hear his opinions. Bibi probably took a course with Chomsky during his studies at MIT, but apparently he doesn't appreciate him.
Stalinist regimes indeed
It is more convenient to critisize Israel at the Bir-Zeit university, then to give a lecture on the relative merits of Hebrew and Arabic.Doesn't chomsky know that all his students speak both languages
I refer not to Chomsky, but to the authorities. HOW DARE Chomsky educate the Palestinians?! We have to keep them dumb and illiterate so they don't attempt to form sane and logical solutions to the occupation! Chomsky should be spouting off pro-Israel talking points to Good Jewish Kids, not stupid Muslims. DUH. Oh, Israel. When will you learn.
he is an American citizen and not an Israeli citizen, if they let him in, does he risk that he'll be forced to wear some kind of symbol--we know about that don't we--that will identify him with those people the Israeli government brands as...well, you finish this...
the area needs at this critical time. Does he want to hear his onw voice? feed his ego? or does he want to damage the talks so the left will continue to have their "cause"? The hypocrits!
the area needs at this critical time. Does he want to hear his onw voice? feed his ego? or does he want to damage the talks so the left will continue to have their "cause"? The hypocrits!
A low point in Israeli freedom of Speech.
...Israel's very existence. And as such, there is no reason on earth why Israel, its citizens and their government should collaborate with a man who would do all that he can to see Israel's demise, annihilation.
Israel wins no awards for justice. Long ago it abandoned the Jewish values that became a foundation for Western civilization. It is a sad state of affairs when a respected Jew is not welcome.
with only degrees in linguistics?; not in politics,or history,or The medieval approach to civilization, not even in culinary art? Noam, you are a disappointment. What a waste of 81 years of nothingness in this challenging world. As a vociferous old jew on your assaults on the Jewish State, you should not be allowed to set foot on Israel's soil. Didn't you learn at MIT the meaning of " Contamination of ideas ",or more advanced " conditioning of thought "?.They have a world class library. Maybe you should start as a preamble to familiarize yourself with Mr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov work, you know, the guy who succeeded in dog training.
Let him be a messenger of the Israeli racism to the rest of the world! This doesn't only happen with Chomsky, it happens to everyone trying to enter the Palestinian territories. I hope that such case would mirror the misery that people encounter when they try to visit their families....
chomsky shouldn't be allowed in israel or america- he is a self-hater
it goes to show you what palestine is dealing with.. when they deny entry to one of their own, what hope do the arabs have? israel preaches peace, yet its track record reflects anything but. if they truly want to see peace, then they must give palestine back to its rightful owner, otherwise, endure another century of conflict...
WHAT A SURPRISE!!!