"By blocking Chomsky speech, Israel hurt its own cause
The decision undercuts Israel’s reputation as a rare haven for free speech in the Middle East.
Related: Israel Lives Up to Its Terrorist Reputation
Yeah, I'm sick of reading how great Israel is in my newspaper.
Chomsky is a freelance provocateur....
Or something like that.
See: Noam Chomsky: Controlled Asset Of The New World Order
Sick of the MSM and its games yet?
--more--"
Since when did the Globe care about Chumpsky anyway?
They never review his books.
Related: Noam Chomsky on 9/11 Conspiracy
Who cares, Noam?
That is the exact reaction I had upon seeing this as the above-the-fold Metro lead:
"Chomsky barred from West Bank; MIT professor turned away at Jordan border" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | May 17, 2010
Noam Chomsky, an outspoken voice on the political left and a fierce critic of Israeli foreign policy, was denied entry by Israeli officials into the West Bank yesterday, where he was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a Palestinian university.
Chomsky, a renowned linguistics professor at MIT, was seeking to cross the border between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, but was turned away after being questioned for several hours. He said authorities did not provide an explanation, but told him they would send a written account to the American Embassy.
An Israeli official said in published reports that border officials barred Chomsky because they mistakenly thought he was also planning to visit other places in Israel outside of the Palestinian territory. She said border and immigration officials were consulting military officials about potentially letting him enter the country.
“We are trying to contact the military to clear things up, and if they have no objection, we see no reason why he should not be allowed in,’’ Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told Reuters.
In an e-mail to the Globe, Chomsky said he believed he was being singled out for his criticism of Israel, as well as his plans to speak at a Palestinian university. “They are carrying out an action of a kind that I’ve never heard of before, except in totalitarian states,’’ he said.
Chomsky, 81, said he believes he was also targeted because his trip did not include any engagements at Israeli universities, as he has often done in the past. He predicted that Israel would ultimately reverse its decision because of international criticism.
In a live television interview with Al Jazeera, Chomsky said the Israeli government “does not like the kind of things I say, which puts them into the category of every other government in the world.’’
*****************
Chomsky, who is Jewish, is a frequent critic of Israeli policy in the Palestinian territories and of US support for Israel....
Chomsky’s daughter —
Also see: I’M SURPRISED ISRAEL DID NOT GIVE CHOMSKY THE ‘RED CARPET’ WELCOME
Of course, the Globe is more concerned about Israeli reaction rather than American:
"Barring of Chomsky stirs up a political storm in Israel" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | May 18, 2010
In a vitriolic address to the United Nations in 2006, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela assailed US foreign policy and called President George W. Bush the devil. He then held up a copy of Noam Chomsky’s “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance’’ and urged the audience to read it.
Sales surged, catapulting the scathing critique of American foreign policy onto bestseller lists and the renowned and widely reviled MIT linguist into the media spotlight.
The 81-year-old scholar, who has drawn praise and scorn over a second career as a political dissident, once again has found himself at the center of a swirling controversy after being denied entry to the West Bank Sunday....
The refusal to admit Chomsky, a fierce critic of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians, set off a soul-searching debate in Israel, with many denouncing the decision....
How can Israel search for something it never had?
They ain't going to find it in any event.
Yesterday, Chomsky decided against trying to cross the border a second time, despite comments from Israeli officials suggesting that he would probably be allowed entry.
He will deliver the lecture instead by video conference from Amman, Jordan, according to Haaretz.
The lecture will also be broadcast live on Al Jazeera television, the newspaper reported.
Chomsky had been traveling with his daughter to deliver several lectures at Birzeit University, a Palestinian school, when he was detained for questioning at the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. After several hours, he was turned back.
Chomsky, who is Jewish, said he believed he was being targeted for his criticism of Israel....
Israeli officials said the incident was a simple misunderstanding that was unrelated to Chomsky’s political views.
“The idea that Israel is preventing people from entering whose opinions are critical of the state is ludicrous,’’ a spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told The New York Times.
“It is not happening. This was a mishap. A guy at the border overstepped his authority.’’
A spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry said Sunday that border officials barred Chomsky because they mistakenly thought he was also planning to visit other places in Israel outside the Palestinian territory....
I'm SICK of ISRAEL and her SHIT EXCUSES, too!!!!
Chomsky has sharply criticized Israel’s role in the conflict with the Palestinians, as well as the US government’s strong support for Israel.
In a recently published article, Chomsky wrote that the “US and Israel have been acting in tandem to extend and deepen the occupation’’ of the Palestinian territories.
Chomsky has a long history of incendiary comments. In 2003, he labeled the United States “one of the leading terrorist states in the world.’’
He is right about that one.
He has compared the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to the American bombing of a chemical factory in Sudan. He described the US invasion of Afghanistan as “one of the most immoral acts in modern history,’’ and has written that if “the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every postwar American president would have been hanged.’’
That is also correct.
While such inflammatory rhetoric has made Chomsky a darling of the European left, in the United States it has banished him from the mainstream of public discourse....
Well, gee, Globe, WHOSE FAULT is THAT, huh?
Haven't seen Chumpsky in the Globe since.
