His entrance into Judea and Samaria banned, the Lede Blog of the NYTimes carried this bit of information:
In an interview with Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine in 2003, Mr. Chomsky said, “I objected to the founding of Israel as a Jewish state. I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.” When Ms. Solomon pressed Mr. Chomsky on his opposition to Israel, saying, “Your father was a respected Hebraic scholar, and sometimes you sound like a self-hating Jew,” he replied:
It is a shame that critics of Israeli policies are seen as either anti-Semites or self-hating Jews. It’s grotesque. If an Italian criticized Italian policies, would he be seen as a self-hating Italian?
Even me, not really a world-class philosopher can see a fault in Chomsky's logic. If an Italian denied the existence of Italy, or its right to be established as a political framework for the Italian people (who could be of all religions), yes, he would be a self-hating Italian - just like Chomsky who objects to Israel's very founding is a self-hating Jew.
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don't forget chomsky's repeated lies over the years about his own political background, telling one thing to the Mapam-oriented Israel Horizons and another to Ved Mehta for a New Yorker profile. Then he supported Faurisson the Holocaust-denier and the Cambodian mass murder. Here he plays a trick making the Jews out to be only a religious group, which he knows is false. He pretends to oppose Israel as a religious state on those false grounds, but we know that every Arab state but Lebanon is a Muslim state, as well as an Arab ethnic state. chomsky never complains about saudi arabia's religious character.
bir zeit university where noam was going to speak was founded as a school by an Arab Christian converted from the Greek Orthodox church to the Anglican church. Hence, a good chomskian or edward saidian ought to consider bir zeit a colonialist-imperialist enterprise. How could our loyal anti-imperialist chomsky speak at such a morally corrupt institution??
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Said himself was a convert to Protestantism, or his family was. No one, not even the Sunnis, were behind Arab nationalism like the Greek Orthodox; for example, Michel 'Aflaq was Greek Orthodox. By and large, the Levantine Christians who are against Arabism are the Maronites, which is not to say they are all necessarily philo-Semitic.
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