Al Jazeera interview with the great linguist from Amman, below. "I’m not very angry about it, I was disappointed and surprised…" Chomsky wasn’t the only one turned back: "My daughter and I were informed that we were denied entry."
Q. "The Interior Ministry is saying that it was a misunderstanding."
"I can’t see anything to misunderstand." Chomsky says he was invited to give several lectures at Birzeit. "I do it all the time in many countries…. What was conveyed to me in the discussion with the official…He was receiving instructions from the Ministry of the Interior….[The concerns] One was that the government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say… The second was that they seemed upset about the fact that I was just taking an invitation from Birzeit and I had no plans to go on to speak in Israeli universities, as I had done many times in the past but not this time."
I wonder if that felt like delegitimization, BDS to the Israelis?
