Why can't the U.S. be more like Israel? I'd like to do a forensic search to root out the origin of the latest media meme that, given the mess that TSA appears to be making of the new full body airport security screenings, we should turn to Israel as a model for how to do the job. Chances are that we'll discover that the meme was created by someone in the … [Read more...]
Chomsky to Deliver Bir Zeit Lecture on Al Jazeera
Well, maybe this will teach the petty bureaucrats at the Israeli Interior Ministry a lesson. After lecturing him for four hours on the errors of his ways in criticizing Israel and telling him what he could or should do to be allowed admittance, they sent Prof. Noam Chomsky packing back to Amman. Later, Israeli PR flacks attempted to backtrack by lying and … [Read more...]
Bibi on Barring Chomsky: ‘I Read it in the News Today, Oh Boy’
Well, one thing we know...Bibi reads the papers (Bibiton-Yisrael HaYom at least): that's apparently how he learns of major decisions made by his own Interior Ministry to bar one of the most distinguished linguists in the world from entering the West Bank to lecture at Bir Zeit University. You wouldn't think he'd hear it from his own minister, would … [Read more...]
Israeli Interior Ministry Denies Chomsky West Bank Entry
Oops, it was all a big misunderstanding claims Eli Yishai's Interior Ministry. That's what Al Jazeera claims the goons who denied Prof. Noam Chomsky entry into the West Bank at the Allenby crossing are now saying. As Chomsky says in this interview, what could they have misunderstood? Who he was? Where he was going (to speak at Bir … [Read more...]