Noam Chomsky"[Noam] Chomsky's truly great contribution to the struggle for human freedom is that he has taken what we have been persuaded to believe is an insane idea, a product only of individual neurosis – the idea that society is not free and quite possibly not even sane – and shown it to be empirically, demonstrably true; he has provided the vital support for the individual to be able to declare him – and herself sane against the insanity of society, despite a million voices declaring that it is the occasional doubter who is mad."Recently acclaimed as the "world's greatest intellectual", Chomsky has been criticised from the left as a hypocrite and for his support of Zionism. He has also been criticised as a "self-hating Jew" and as "anti-American". |
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 For Chomsky by Robin Blackburn, November 2005. “The huge vote for Noam Chomsky as the world's leading "public intellectual" should be no surprise at all. Who could match him for sheer intellectual achievement and political courage?” Who's Afraid of Noam Chomsky? by Richard Wall, 17 August 2004. “Professor Noam Chomsky is a fierce critic of US wars and foreign policy, and a brilliant analyst of the propaganda and psychological mechanisms through which the liberal-bureaucratic establishment achieves public consent and endorsement of the aggressive actions of the state.” The Voice of Dissidence by Christian Tyler, 08
July 1995. “In the land of the free and the home of the brave, Noam Chomsky is a dissident. For 30 years, this mild-looking East Coast academic has been denouncing the U.S. government and its puppet-master, big business, for sponsoring the oppression, torture and murder of the poor in order to make the world safe for American capitalism.”
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 More on the Treachery of Noam Chomsky by Benjamin Merhav, 27 September 2005.The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions by Jeffrey Blankfort, May 2003.Its Origins and Growth: The Power of the Israel Lobby by Kathleen and Bill Christison, 16 June 2006.
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 The Branding of the World's Top Intellectual: Noam Chomsky by Peter Schweizer, 19 October 2005. “Whereas readers of The Prospect found the top public intellectual in Chomsky, I found a poster child for modern-day capitalism and, because of his anti-capitalist views, a complete hypocrite.”Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Jeffrey Blankfort, 25 May 2005. Noam Chomsky and 'Left' Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine by Noah Cohen, 23 August 2004. The Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic by Jeffrey Blankfort, 20 February 2006.
An interview with journalist Silvia Cattori.
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