Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!teddy!lkk From: lkk@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Censorship Message-ID: <1197@teddy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 14:59:56 EDT Article-I.D.: teddy.1197 Posted: Fri Aug 23 14:59:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 00:32:15 EDT References: <91@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 32 Xref: watmath net.politics:10620 net.flame:11670 Summary: In article <91@decwrl.UUCP> black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) writes: > > For all of you who fear censorship by the "Extreme Right," here's a >few examples of what we can expect from the our dear friends on the Left. > ..... > "* MIT Professor Noam Chomsky's invitation to speak before the graduating >class of the Cornell Medical School was withdrawn after Israeli partisans >demanded that Chomsky (who is Jewish) be silenced. Last October Chomsky was >disinvited at the University of Michigan after pro-Israeli groups threatened >severe measures if his speech was sponsored by the school's Near Eastern >Studies Department. Chomsky is the author of the definitive assessment of >war Zionism, 'The Fateful Triangle.' Chomsky's fact-filled lectures draw >huge campus crowds---hence the pressure to silence him. People who oppose Noam Chomsky for his views on Israel can hardly be called leftists. Chmosky himself is the consummate American leftist. You're getting confused Don. Zionist != Leftist. Frequently its the vice versa. -- Sport Death, Larry Kolodney (USENET) ...decvax!genrad!teddy!lkk (INTERNET) lkk@mit-mc.arpa