At least they didn't hand him over to Shin Bet for a few days of "detention".

Look on the bright side. Israel hasn't decided to bulldoze Chomsky's house or shut off his water, power, food, and medical supplies, or build a wall around Lexington, MA.

Yet.

Is anyone surprised.
I`m sure Mr. Chomsky isn`t.
There is no room in Israel for advocates of democracy. Far form being someone who represents the `far Left`, Chomsky represents basic democracy, is against racism in any shape or form, is anti-corporate when corporate interests trump the public interest and has the highest respect for human rights. I guess in contemporary America he might be viewed as a radical leftist by teabaggers and corporate lackies, but in reality Chomsky is a spokesperson for average people around the world who feel that a handful of powerful elites have highjacked their governments, airwaves, resources and freedoms all in the name of the mighty dollar.
Keep in mind that people who questioned the Third Reich`s decision to dispose of the Jews or Stalin`s decision to send 20 million of its citizens to Siberian labour camps, were quickly labelled as radicals, unpatriotic and enemies of the State. Some things never change.

I do wish that Israel would stop billing itself as one of the best and true democracies in the world. Ditto the United States.

Glad it wasn't worse, Noam, and that you weren't held for more serious interrogation on some pretext or other. Now you are on your way home to that other great democracy ... uh, oh.

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There is no heartbeat on earth that is somehow not our own.

Israel is a crime against humanity.

But let us give love and honor to Noam !

Israel USA are one nation and as they limit who may
speak to you and what you may know, like the mind of
child that we mold and control, they are,

“Babylon, land of deepest shadow and deep darkness,
where even light is like darkness.”

I would like to see a letter of complaint/action alert drafted by academic freedom groups to Secretary of State Clinton. A formal complaint by the United States government should be demanded.

(People, I know it doesn't DO anything to write letters, but it is important to hold people to their alleged principles.)

This article describes yet another technique that Israel uses to silence it's critics. This article is ripe for Megaphone Desktop type commentators (see below), so I'll post my usual response below.

Apologists' tactics in regards to the US/Israel policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians:
1 – Attack the messenger (CD poster or whoever criticizes the US/Israel's ethnic cleansing)
2 – If the critic is a Jew, call the Jew anti-semetic or a self-hating Jew
3 – Make it sound like Israel is the victim although Israel is the aggressor and occupier
4 – Quantify attacks by Palestinians and quantify Israeli dead and wounded while, not quantifying Israeli attacks on Palestinians nor mention Palestinian dead and wounded.
5 – Justify all Israeli attacks as justifiable retaliations while calling all Palestinian attacks unprovoked although the West Bank is illegally occupied and Gaza is illegally blockaded (act of war) and regularly subject to invasions and air-raids..
6 – Point to other injustices in the world to deflect attention of Israel's illegal acts.
7 – State that Jews and Palestinians have a long history of conflict therefore the situation is unresolvable (ignoring Israel's illegal occupation) in order to maintain status quo and further Israel's expansion of illegal settlements
8 – Claim Israel has biblical rights to Palestinian land (thus God supports the ethnic cleansing)
9 – Claim the occupied territory was either no man's land or another countries land to justify Israel's illegal confiscation of the land and the people on it.
10 – Defend the occupation and ethnic cleansing without mentioning the illegal acts: land confiscation, house demolitions and evictions, burning and razing of Palestinian farmland, illegal land annexations, specific apartheid policies in the West Bank, shooting and arrests of non-violent demonstrators on occupied land, restriction of movement, land and sea blockade, restrictions of imports of medicine, food, school supplies and building materials, illegal shooting of Gazan farmers and fishermen...
11 – Make so many illegitimate arguments or use so many inaccurate/misleading facts to justify Israel's illegal occupation and ethnic cleansing policy that it is impossible to respond to them all because every time you try, another illegitimate argument is made. (The Bush administration was a master of this in the buildup to the Iraq war. It seemed every week, another piece of unsupported evidence was made to support attacking Iraq. And every time you challenged one illegitimate argument, the arguer (usually a Fox News viewer) would abandon that argument and jump to the next illegitimate argument and this would continue to the point of exhaustion.)
12 – Rewrite history with your comments.
13 – Switch between tactics 1-12 above in your non-stop argument whenever one of the tactics runs out of steam.
14 – In regards to blogging, create discussion fights and go off topic.
15 – In regards to blogging, apologist is either ignorant or feigns ignorance and attempts to attack the credibility of the comment by asking for a link to the source (effort to waste time of blogger when information is readily available on the internet and the apologist doesn't provide support for his own misinformation). If you don't respond, e.g., because you don't monitor the site all day, apologist discounts your argument, and if you respond, the apologist changes the subject, makes a new attack, or ignores the response.

Apologists use tools such as Megaphone Desktop (www.giyus.org) to alert themselves when articles about Israel's destructive policies appear on the internet so they can use tactics like the above to try and win public opinion.

Interestingly, NC's denial of entry is reported by Haaretz, not say, al Jazeera. I'm surprised that they would find Chomsky a threat. Israel is getting pretty paranoid. How much longer will Amira Hass have a job? Has their facade of "democracy" crumbled so much that they can't hide the police state lurking behind it?

Let's not interfere with Israel's sovereignty by externally defining who can and cannot cross their borders. Every country deserves this same respect.
Also, a democracy doesn't mean a porous border. It merely directs how laws are defined. The US isn't a democracy. It's a democratic republic, which is MUCH different.

Denial of Professor Chomsky's entry to Israel is outrageous. Could Israel be morphing into an anti-democratic theocratic state?

Bring America Back !!!!

****Yes, these are our same little Zion sisters to whom
Sec/State Hillary Clinton pledged unwavering fielty just last week, to show AIPAC that the USA really was not insulted just because Vice Prez Joe Biden became angered during his recent visit to Israel.

****yes, these are the same Darlings of Benjamin Netanahu,
who visiting our Prez Obama 2 weeks ago, gained Obama's
promise that the US is Israel's Number One Supporter.

****Who of us may even presume that Chomsky was blackballed
by his own Nation==under the table==esp if he was going to
discuss 'GAZA' at the University. You see in the Obama
Administration the Genocide at Gaza is a non-mentionable.
Not one whisper of protest vs. Zion for the slaughter of
1500 Gazans--including 300 to 400 innocent children.

****Barak's silence on Gaza implicates the US as child killers, esp since the US Army Corps of Engineers were
co-trainors of the Israeli Defense Force that carried out
the Gazan Genocides.
During the Obama Inaugural Balls, the Attendees were dancing
on the fresh graves of 300 poor, dead Gazan Children !

**So who would want to disrupt an occaison such as that ???

****Remember GAZA< NORM, and please write about this
latest incident you experienced, and about Zion's attitude
and treatment of its own educational Universities.

["I suggested [the interrogator try to] find any government in the world that likes anything I say," {Chomsky} said.]

I would die a happy man if such words were honestly written on my tombstone.

I think it's long past time that people stopped refering to Israel as a 'democracy'. Elections don't make a democracy, as the Soviets proved long ago. Israel has long had minority parliaments, yet the arabs who get elected to the parliament are never considered for a position in any government. Moreover, not all of the people who are or were born in the land Israel controls are able to vote.

Here is an excerpt of Noam describing his experiences as a twenty-something on a Israeli kibbutz--hailed as some kind of libertarian+communitarian haven by many writers in the Fifties:

...I did have a lot of interest in the kibbutz and I liked it very much when I was there. But there were things I didn't like, too. In particular, the ideological conformity was appalling. I don't know if I could have survived long in that environment because I was very strongly opposed to the Leninist ideology, as well as the general conformism, and uneasy -- less so than I should have been -- about the the exclusiveness and the racist institutional setting.

What I did not then face honestly was the fairly obvious fact that these are Jewish institutions and are so because of legal and administrative structures and practice. So, for example, I doubt if there's an Arab in any kibbutz, and there hardly could be, because of the land laws and the role the institution plays in the Israeli system. In fact, even the Oriental Jews, some of whom were marginally at the kibbutz or in the immigrant town nearby, were treated rather shabbily, with a good deal of contempt and fear. I also visited some Arab villages, and learned some unpleasant things, which I've never seen in print, about the military administration to which Arab citizens were subjected.

Being banned in Israel is like being banned in Boston; it's a real badge of courage

Chomsky was sympathetic to Israel not long after it was formed and even went there to explore the possibility of permanently moving there. This was just 5 years after expulsion of the Palestinians when US relations with Israel were rather tepid. He left not long after because of the "racist institutional" nature of the society he found there:

http://www.chomsky.info/books/reader01.htm

The interesting thing is that others like Jeff Blankfort, who also went to Israel as a young Jewish man expecting to find a decent, democratic society but was repelled by what he saw, criticize Chomsky for still treating the subject of Israeli lobby power with kid gloves:

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2010/04/whither_the_israel_lobby.html

noam chomsky, german export dominance, and the israeli atomic bomb are the three things that the mainstream media dare not discuss. tea partiers and right wing hate mongers can command media coverage every day, but the mainstream media dare not speak chomsky's name, for fear of giving his ideas the coverage that might make a policy difference, the failures of capitalism and militarism having provided fertile ground for his ideas to take root, were they reasonably publicized. similarly obscured is the fact that germany, which features high wages and universal healthcare coverage, is the world's leading exporter, even after spending hundreds of billions of marks to integrate its eastern and western economies. this contrast, embarassing to the u.s., must be suppressed. and, we have all heard barbara walters and the o'bomber failing to acknowledge israel's status as a nuclear weapon's superpower. most people know far more about the balloon boy than any of the three topics i just briefly broached.

And what was Chomsky actually expecting to accomplish by visiting the 4th Reich?

"Professor Noam Chomsky, an American linguist and left-wing activist, was denied entry into Israel on Sunday, for reasons that were not immediately clear."

Funny. Very funny. LOL funny.

One of the world's preeminent jews denied entry into the "democratic" jewish state, for having been critical of it. Nice.

No way could Israel condemn itself more efficiently in three hours than through this quick little act.

Hilarious how self-undermining the apartheidists in Israel are. Israel just can't be taken seriously any more, even on the most basic levels. Their apartheid keeps them apart, for sure.

I really look forward to Chomsky's writing on this. Pretty bad move by Israel. Intelligent it is not.

Though how the OECD could let Israel into the organization recently, is a mystery that speaks ill of the OECD too.

What an outrage! I'm beginning to sympathize with Ahmadinejad.

Our own government barred Doctor Tariq Ramadan, a European scholar of Islam who had been given a tenured position as well as a home by the University of Notre Dame. His children and wife were already there setting up house.

Shakespeare wrote: security is mortal's chiefest enemy.

This is a nice, little, propaganda stunt. More DECEIT designed to reinforce your belief that Chomsky isn't keeping the gate.

Mr. Chomsky should count himself lucky that the border guards did not borrow a bulldozer and murder him the way that the government did to Rachel Corrie.

A further irony is that "Rachel" in Herbrew means "lamb."

Israeli government, you are such a disappointment; you are murdering lambs and trying to stiffle free speech with government duct tape.

Oh yes, and what does "Israel" translate into.." He who strives with God." I'm sorry, but that's actually funny. You need to look over that 10 commandment stuff again; it's not working for you.

Few care and the few that do no longer count for much, for now.