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The Boston Globe finds a dangerous irony in Israel’s decision to keep Noam Chomsky from speaking at a Palestinian University in the West Bank.
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The Boston Globe finds a dangerous irony in Israel’s decision to keep Noam Chomsky from speaking at a Palestinian University in the West Bank. “Chomsky is a freelance provocateur; a certain rhetorical excess goes with the turf. But Israel only hurt itself in suggesting that it no longer respects the basic democratic right to free speech.”

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