GEORGE GALLOWAY ON PALESTINE

THE ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by Haaretz.com

Noam Chomsky Denied Entry into Israel

Left-wing linguist, who was scheduled to speak at Bir Zeit University, told by Israeli inspectors at Allenby Bridge that a reason for the refusal would be sent to the American embassy.

by Amira Hass

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

ISRAEL AND BDS AT BERKELEY: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES AND GENERAL ELECTRIC

ASUC Senate...passage of a controversial bill urging the student government and the University of California to divest from two companies that have provided war supplies to the Israeli military.

United Technologies and General Electric-as supplying Israel with the technology necessary to attack civilian populations in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

e-mails, roughly split between both sides of the controversy.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, activist Naomi Klein and leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky have spoken in support of overriding ASUC President Will Smelko's March 24 veto

Tutu...he compared to similar efforts at UC Berkeley to divest from South Africa in the 1980s. J Street U...they felt the bill was dishonest and misleading

"How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley?" said director for AIPAC. "We're going to make sure that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. This is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol.

Read statements in opposition and in support of the divestment bill:

Naomi Klein

Noam Chomsky

Desmond Tutu

Noam Chomsky endorses Berkeley divestment

I would like to express my support and appreciation for the principled statement of the ASUC Senate calling for divestment from US corporations providing military technology for Israel to use in the occupied territories and in its past and possibly future invasions of Lebanon. Amnesty International has gone further, calling for a full arms embargo during Israel’s murderous attack on Gaza in January 2009, with pretexts that do not withstand a moment’s scrutiny, one of the most egregious of recent US-backed Israeli crimes.


This is a turn around for Noam Chomsky. Jeffrey Blankfort discusses here.

BDS

The spirit of the Hampshire College conference on Boycott Divestment and Sanctions
a sense that the left in America can no longer seek to divorce itself from the cause of Palestinian self-determination.
and my value journalistically here is to report on the BDS movement as it touches on a few questions: 1, Are they young? 2, Are they Jewish? 3, Is it a radical movement? 4. What does it mean to power politics, the world of American foreign policy and Jewish attitudes?
You have given us 62 years of Palestinian statelessness and war against Muslims; meanwhile you cheer a black man for president here and Jim Crow and the charade of the “peace process” there.
These young Jews are completely comfortable being anti-Zionist, or pro-Palestinian, or critical of Israel, and don’t need to put the Jewish asterisk on every statement they make.
I heard an organizer speak of the statement the conference will issue, and I remembered the Port Huron statement by the SDS in– wow– 1962.