Because Chomsky is even-handed in his criticism of oppressive nation-states and movements and refuses to indulge in cheap antisemitism when he criticizes Israeli government policies he is a liability to the cause of Palestinian Rights?
It is Blankfort who is the liability.
-Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Joseph Catron Sent: Wed 7/21/2010 7:31 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition; Progressive Economics Subject: [lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?
"Support for Israel had become so ingrained and fear of anti-Semitism so deeply embedded in the psyche of American Jewish Leftists in the aftermath of World War 2, that if the Jewish state was to be criticized it had to be by someone from within the tribe who unequivocally supported its existence. Unfortunately, to the detriment of the Palestinians and the building of a viable Palestinian solidarity movement within the United States, that mindset persists to this day and largely explains why Chomsky maintains his reputation despite public utterances over the past half dozen years that have done more to undermine the Palestinian cause than to help it."
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/07/21/jeff-blankfort-chomsky-and-palestine-asset-or-liability
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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