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‘I cried when they threw out Noam Chomsky’

by Philip Weiss on May 31, 2010 · 5 comments Like 9 0 Retweet

When they threw Noam Chomsky out two weeks ago, I teared up. I guess at some level, I believe in the goodness of the Jewish state, these are my people, they couldn't be that bad. How could they do that?!

Or to riff of the famous Phil Ochs line, Love me love me love me I'm a Zionist.

This reservoir of good opinion about Israel exists in almost all American Jews, I think, except for those who have spent a lot of time in the occupied territories and know better. Myself I haven't spent much time there, and so I actually give them the benefit of the doubt (yes out of some portion of ethnic identification).