al Haq
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If Israel feels it cannot survive free speech, then it is one step closer to flirting with totalitarianism.
Professor Noam Chomsky, the left-wing radical thinker and activist, is regularly voted the most influential public intellectual in the world. He has been highly critical of Israels policies for many years, particularly since the time of the first Lebanon war in 1982.
On Sunday, Chomsky was denied entry at the Allenby Bridge on his way from Amman to Ramallah, where he was scheduled to lecture about American foreign policy at Bir Zeit University.
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Nobody in his right mind can claim that Chomsky represents a security threat to Israel. Hes 81 years old. He is not a specialist on armed insurrection, and he has never called for violence against Israel.
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So just for the record: Chomsky is in favor of the two-state solution, and neither calls for violence against Israel nor for dismantling the state. He is even against an academic boycott of Israels universities a rather popular cause of the European left in recent years.
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I have never heard of a democratic state denying entry to thinkers (or anybody else for that matter) who neither call for violence or break local or international law. So what on earth is happening to Israel?
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Linkie:
Israel is encouraging academic boycott by denying entry to Chomsky - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News