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Skunk gas, a foul substance that smells like feces and rotting flesh, is sprayed indiscriminately over Bethlehem during a routine Israeli army incursion into the village in December 2015. And young men have to ask soldiers for permission to move where they want to.

This past semester Tom Suarez was the violin and viola teacher at the Gaza branch of Palestine’s National Conservatory of Music—”though I never met my students, because Israel blocked me from entering the coastal strip. So I taught by Skype from the West Bank as best I could”

Many people who have come to value the courageous and principled stands of Noam Chomsky regarding…