This article is adapted from a talk given via video conference on September 20, 2016, at the second in a series of conferences titled “100 Global Thinkers in Palestine” organized by the Witness Center for Citizen Rights and Social Development. It draws on material...
I have an enormous amount of respect for Noam Chomsky. His analyses of U.S. foreign policy are brilliant, and he has been a huge influence on my own work. But over the years, there are two topics on which I have found him extremely disappointing. One is his...
Kim Petersen, an editor at Dissident Voice, recently wrote an article criticizing me for alleged dishonesty and hypocrisy. To explain the background, Jeffrey Blankfort had written an article entitled “Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?”, published originally...
Tirades against Noam Chomsky never cease to amaze me. And I’m not talking about the kind of criticisms of the man that come from Alan Dershowitz and other apologists for Israeli crimes; I mean from critics of Israel who support Palestinian rights. There are a...
Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region.Myth #2 – The United Nations created Israel.Myth #3 – The Arabs missed an opportunity to have their own state in 1947.Myth #4 – Israel has a “right to exist”.Myth #5 – The Arab nations threatened...
I happened to stumble across this FOX News “Hannity” interview with Anne Coulter. This portion came up in a Google News search: COULTER: I’m reading up on the Noam Chomsky view of the world, so that I can understand Barack Obama’s position with...
U.S. intelligence analysts, in a recent National Intelligence Estimate, have once again reiterated that “The war in Iraq has become a primary recruitment vehicle for violent Islamic extremists, motivating a new generation of potential terrorists around the world...