Chomsky Denied Entry Into Israel
On Sunday, the Israeli government denied Noam Chomsky entry into the country. Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual perhaps in the entire world, was “scheduled to deliver a lecture at Bir Zeit University,” according to the Israeli paper Haaretz.
When Chomsky tried to cross into the country, a border inspector stamped his passport “denied entry,” but would not give him a reason why.
Chomsky has been a longtime critic of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
“Today, Israel could have security, normalization of relations, and integration into the region,” he wrote last year in an analysis of the Gaza War.
“But it very clearly prefers illegal expansion, conflict, and repeated exercise of violence, actions that are not only criminal, murderous and destructive but are also eroding its own long-term security.”
Addendum: Amy Goodman spoke to Chomsky about this on Democracy Now on May 17.
Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine.
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