> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:17 PM, SA<s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Who else? Let's hear some names. Chomsky claims to support Palestinians;
>>> which ones?
>>>
>> When Chomsky was denied entry to Israel/West Bank last year, he was
>> scheduled to give a speech at Bir Zeit. Why? Because he'd been invited to
>> speak by Mustafa Barghouti, of whom he's an old friend and comrade.
>> Barghouti is of course the head of the Union of Medical Relief Committees -
>> one of the most significant signers of your famous BDS petition.
>>
> That wasn't the question, SA. I asked: Who are the Palestinians with whom
> Chomsky's in solidarity? Solidarity, after all, is a matter of supporting
> other people in their struggles, not of publicly denouncing them.
I really don't understand what you're asking. Obviously Chomsky has supported Palestinian struggles tirelessly for years. Ask a randomly selected U.S. pro-Palestinian activist how he or she got into the subject and chances are they'll say it was Chomsky who turned them on to it. On the same trip where he was supposed to speak to Bir Zeit, he was also scheduled to visit Bil'in -- obviously not as a tourist, but to help draw international media attention to what's going on there. Doesn't that count as "solidarity" to you? Why not? It really seems like you're just saying Chomsky is a racist and anti-Palestinian because he disagrees with you about specific aspects of BDS tactics or about the one-state vs. two-state question.
SA