Cosby Gets Cheers, Lerner Gets Death Threats

[kalian]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0608-10.htm

Noam Chomsky, the most prominent Jewish critic of Israeli policy, has made note of Israel's frequent disregard of U.N. resolutions and continuing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory. While Chomsky's opinions on this complex issue are open to debate, the press rarely even engages his actual statements. Take Deborah Solomon's New York Times Magazine interview with Chomsky, from the November 2nd, 2003 issue. After some opening questions about Chomsky's non-political work in linguistics, Solomon goes on the offensive:

"Your father was a respected Hebraic scholar, and sometimes you sound like a self-hating Jew."

Chomsky responds:

"It is a shame that critics of Israeli policies are seen as either anti-Semites or self-hating Jews. It's grotesque. If an Italian criticized Italian policies, would he be seen as a self-hating Italian?"

Solomon's next question: "Have you ever been psychoanalyzed?" She ends the interview shortly by asking "Have you considered leaving the United States permanently?"

Solomon doesn't even do Chomsky the courtesy of criticizing his position. She goes straight into a personal attack, first calling him a "self-hating Jew," then questioning his sanity, and finally implying that he should leave the country. A more striking contrast with the media's uncritical approval of Cosby's remarks could not be imagined.

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Gotta love Chomsky. :toast:

[drdon326]

1. Lock Chomsky on an Israei bus.....

instead of in his ivory tower and watch him change his tune.

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[Forkboy]

4. no,they dont

[drdon326]

5. I dunno.....

Jim should be here anytime now.... we'll ask him.

btw...I attack Chomsky and you attack me....

you must really love that guy.

[PragMantisT]

3. And while we're at it

let's lock Sharon and the other killers in a palestinian concentration, oops, I mean, refugee, camp, after we take away his whole country and culture, and that'll change his tune.

[Classical_Liberal]

6. Lock Sharon in a house on the Philadelphia corridor

That will change his tune.

[Darranar]

7. Aren't you "attacking the messenger"?

Or does that only matter when the "other side" does it?

[drdon326]

8. Nice try.....

No, I attacked the subject of the piece , Noam Chomsky,
and didnt even mention commondreams.org.

Sorry but I do not hold chomsky in very high regards.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Darranar's right...

Why don't you try addressing what Chomsky said rather than attack the subject of the piece? After all, yr always telling everyone else they should do that. So, was there anything factually incorrect in what Chomsky said? I'll take yr silence to mean there was nothing incorrect at all ;)

Violet...