{"id":1526,"date":"2010-05-17T03:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2010-05-17T03:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:27:46","slug":"israel-denies-entry-to-noam-chomsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/israel-denies-entry-to-noam-chomsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Denies Entry to Noam Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

They refused to give an explanation.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"chomsky\"<\/a> Professor Noam Chomsky, an American linguist and left-wing activist, was denied entry into Israel on Sunday, for reasons that were not immediately clear.<\/p>\n

Chomsky, who was scheduled to deliver a lecture at Bir Zeit University near Jerusalem, told the Right to Enter activist group by telephone that inspectors had stamped the words "denied entry" onto his passport when he tried to cross from Jordan over Allenby Bridge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When he asked an Israeli inspector why he had not received permission, he was told that an explanation would be sent in writing to the American embassy.<\/p>\n

Chomsky arrived at the Allenby Bridge at around 1:30 in the afternoon and was taken for questioning, before being released back to Amman at 4:30 P.M.<\/p>\n

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Haddad said Chomsky was turned away for various reasons but declined to elaborate<\/strong>. The ministry was looking into allowing him to enter only the West Bank, said Haddad.<\/p>\n

In a telephone interview with Channel 10, Chomsky said the interrogators had told him he had written things that the Israeli government did not like<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"I suggested [the interrogator try to] find any government in the world that likes anything I say," he said… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

Chomsky is a bit out on the fringe, but his work is usually well researched and well documented.  In Israel\u2019s war of attrition against Palestinians, in defiance of their own treaty obligations, I have no doubt that Chomsky\u2019s lecture would have been far to accurate for consumption by Israel\u2019s college students.  I don\u2019t always agree with his positions, but were I to suppress them, I would be a hypocrite, as is the Israeli government.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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