Why is Chomsky the issue, anyway?
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Because many Americans still take him as some kind of moral authority on Palestinian affairs.
> But, aside from that, it's weird for Americans to call for a boycott of
> Israel when our government supplies the IDF with money and weapons and
> diplomatic cover for whatever barbarity they commit.
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Umm ... Americans don't, Doug. Palestinians did.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/52
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