[lbo-talk] Noam Chomsky is losing it

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 10:25:04 PDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:

Are you kidding? I'm guessing that a single one of Chomsky's books sells
> more copies than the entire oeuvre of Edward Said. I admire Said a lot, but
> Chomsky's influence is far greater.
>

Well, if that's your criterion: Jimmy Carter.


> He doesn't support your position. That's different.
>

He actively opposes the aspirations of the Palestinian people, as expressed by every Palestinian faction. ("Not supporting" would be quite different. There are any number of worthwhile things I don't support, due to abject ignorance, time constraints, etc.)

As long as you're challenging me to the "name one" game: Who are the Palestinians with whom Chomsky's in solidarity, who aren't represented by any of these organizations (http://www.bdsmovement.net/call) or individually in support of the goals he opposes? I'll give you a half-dozen apparatchniks at the American Task Force on Palestine, who are so bought-and-paid-for they sound more Zionist than the AJC on some days. Who else? Let's hear some names. Chomsky claims to support Palestinians; which ones?

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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