Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the wonder is that there are so few skeptics.
Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.
There is no way a non-Jew could say what I did in 'The Holocaust Industry' without being labelled a Holocaust denier. I am labelled a Holocaust denier, too.
Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.
When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.
I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.
There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.
There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try to mobilize public opinion to affect elite policy; and I think now there are unusual, unprecedented opportunities to do so.
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.
