Two years ago, intellectuals went into an uproar when the state of Israel barred linguist Noam Chomsky from entering the West Bank. Leftists howled when the decision to bar the octogenarian and asked what harm he could have done the Jewish state. It was arguable that Israel did itself more harm than good by keeping the icon of anti-American and anti-Israel thought out of the country since it gave the impression that it was suppressing his ideas. That was, of course, nonsense, since free expression of all kinds, including some of the most virulent anti-Zionist agitation, is permitted throughout Israel. But whether it was wise or not, Israel was fully within its rights to keep out a foreign individual who has spent much of his career seeking the country’s destruction.
That decision was brought to mind today as the 83-year-old Chomsky returned to the Middle East, this time to visit the independent Palestinian state in all but name that exists in Gaza. Chomsky crossed from Egypt into the strip and will speak at the Islamic University there. We don’t doubt that he will get a warm welcome from the Islamists at the school as well as from the Hamas tyrants who rule the area with an iron hand. But this episode is a reminder of the double standards and hypocrisy that passes for principle on the intellectual left.
It should be understood that the entire purpose of Chomsky’s visit to Gaza is to support the Hamas government as he intends to speak against the faltering international blockade of the terrorist state they govern. In doing so and by speaking at the Islamic University, the former MIT professor will be lending his prestige to some of the most brutal thugs in the world whose goal is not merely the destruction of Israel but the suppression of the human rights of their own people.
Though Chomsky will, as he has in the past, disclaim any responsibility for the brutish behavior of his hosts and other Palestinian friends, it is clear that this son of a great Jewish scholar is lending his seal of approval to both attacks on Jews and Israel. This is not the first example of the ongoing infatuation between leftist intellectuals and thugs who attack institutions and people those leftists abhor. But it is no less despicable for being so predictable.
See "Noam Chomsky's Jihad Against America," by David Horowitz and Ronald Radosh. See also the essays in the "Anti-Chomsky Reader." He is a conceited would-be tyrant.
Chomsky is an accessory to terrorists. He has gone to Lebanon before and consorted with and was a guest of Hezbollah. n nIs that not breaking US law? n nIt is breaking Israeli law, in any case. Israel lost nothing by refusing him entry. n nAgreeing to his visit to Israel would simply empower other haters who feel they can prove their bona fides (leftist? Islamic? what?) by going to Israel and 'sticking it' to the Jews over their 'mistreatment' of those who would butcher them to the last man woman and child. n nChomsky in an 'inspiration' to thousands of idle young Americans, Scandinavians, Brits, and others who have rediscovered the world's most persistent hatred in modern form. n nHere's to hoping he chokes on chicken kebab in Gaza. n n
Maybe Hamas is just interested in the linguistic nuances of transformational grammars. n nOK, maybe not.
I had heard that Chomsky was revising his deep structure theory to make room for another universal human conceptual construct: the Zionazi.
…and giving it a test ride, or it's riding him…
A Jewish intellectual with the morals of a suicide bomber.The students and others who flock to him are the contemporary version of Hitler Youth…….Imagine if a rogue terrorist faction,unaware of his sympathies,kidnapped him.What would happen?-he already has one of the most extreme cases of Stockholm Syndrome known to man…………..
I know it hurts to hear this, but… nIsrael = Apartheid South Africa (version 2.0) n nPigs like Netanyahu, Barak and Lieberman make tyrants like Hitler and Stalin proud of their work.
It’s not really a double standard. It’s what these people actually believe. Chomsky is a self admitted totalitarian anarchist who openly and proudly stands for the violent destruction of the west, of Israel and of the Jews. He is not interested in who accomplishes that feat be it the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot, the Nazis, Islam or anyone or anything else as long as it gets done. He’s an old man now and his biggest fear is that he won’t live long enough to see the nuclear annihilation of more than a billion people.
There is no double dealing or hypocrisy. This is actually what he believes. Chomsky is a self admitted totalitarian anarchist who openly supports the violent destruction of the west, of America, of Israel and of the Jews. But he doesn't care who or what accomplishes that. Over the years he's supported the Soviet Union, Communist China, Pol Pot, NeoNazis and al Qaeda. So long as it's someone and, since he's 83, someone soon, he doesn't care who wreaks atomic annihilation on a billion or more people.
Imagine the damage Obama can do post presidency, if he allows his inner demons and hatred to shape his actions . . . .
"…this son of a great Jewish scholar… n nThrow a stone in Boro Park or Williamsburg and it will bounce off at least three sons of great Jewish scholars. n nDon't look now, but the linguistic theory upon which Chomsky's reputation, his place on the faculty of MIT and in the imagination of countless starstruck lefty intellectuals has been powerfully challenged and in the minds of many, overturned. And mainly by an Israeli linguist. Just deserts. n nI am no linguist but I serviced the NY publishing industry for twenty years including Chomsky's publisher and I know something about books and book sales. No one reads Chomsky's numbingly boring books without coercion. If you are not a reviewer, academic or student laboring under assignments, you don't reach into your pocket for money to waste on Chomsky's shopworn leftist drivel. n nTo the Jewish State that denies Chomsky entry, This Jew says, right on! n nThis Jew finds it unfortunate that the Israeli government was not in a position to keep Rahm Emmanuel's son from celebrating his Bar Mizvah in Israel. Kherem–shunning or excommunication–is a venerable and entirely legitimate social tool. n nWere it that Rabbis could refuse religious services and that Synagogues, and more effectively, Jewish funeral homes and cemeteries could be closed to treasonous and seditious Jewish enemies of Zion and the Jewish people. n nIt is no accident that leftist Jews opposed to Judaism and the Jewish nation inevitably oppose capitalism and the American nation. Leftism is a masochistic, self-delusional and self-destructive disease of the mind. n nLeftist sickness is already widespread in Israel. The Israeli government does right in shutting out American strains of the contagion. n
what out or you'll be marked as "mean spirited". nyou're right on the money dave
I did not know Chomsky was a son of a great Jewish scholar. I suspect strong unresolved issues between father and son. No other way to explain his shame for being Jewish.
See the Anti-Comsky Reader and the pamplet about Chomsky by David Horowitz and Ronald Radosh, "Noam Chomsky's Jihad Against America"
Mr. Chomsy, for whatever psychological reasons which he has veiled over the years with "intellectual" explanations/excuses, has set out to demonize the tiny liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel; to de-legitimize it and to side with anyone eager to bring about its demise. n nHis visit to Hamastan, i.e. Islamist ruled Gaza, is indicative of the extent to which this "free thinker" is willing to go: collaborating with the worst elements of Islam whose goals, from their perspective, is to be achieved, among other means, through the mass murder of Jewish children, women, men and the elderly. This is the face of Hamas and that of the "enlightened", Mr. Chomsky. n nHis place, as is the case with Hamas, IslamicJihad & Co. is outside the bounds of the liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people, Israel.
There's no tool like an old tool!
really Fazil Say. He's recorded a great "Rhapsody in Blue" ngood luck FS
wouldn't it be great if he was smuggled out of Turkey by the Mossad?