Editing Noam Chomsky (section)

===Israeli–Palestinian conflict===
Chomsky has written prolifically about the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], aiming to raise public awareness of it.{{sfn|Gendzier|2017|p=314}} A [[labor Zionist]] who later became what is today considered an [[Anti-Zionism|anti-Zionist]], Chomsky has criticized the [[Israeli settlements]] in the [[Israeli-occupied territories|Israeli-occupied]] [[West Bank]], which he likens to a [[settler colony]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rpHEAAAQBAJ|title=A New World in Our Hearts: In Conversation with Michael Albert|author=Noam Chomsky|page=59|publisher=PM Press|year=2022|isbn=9781629638928 }}</ref> He has said that the 1947 [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] was a bad decision, but given the [[realpolitik]] of the situation, he has also considered a [[two-state solution]] on the condition that the nation-states exist on equal terms.{{sfnm|1a1=Sperlich|1y=2006|1p=97|2a1=McGilvray|2y=2014|2p=159}}

Chomsky has said that characterizing [[Israel and apartheid|Israel's treatment of the Palestinians as apartheid]], similar to the system that existed in South Africa, would be a "gift to Israel", as he has long held that "the [[Israeli occupied territories|Occupied Territories]] are much worse than South Africa".<ref name="MEM1">{{cite web|url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220627-chomsky-on-israeli-apartheid-celebrity-activists-bds-and-the-one-state-solution/|publisher=Middle East Monitor|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=June 27, 2022|work=Ramzy Baroud|title=Chomsky on Israeli apartheid, celebrity activists, BDS and the one-state solution|quote=Chomsky believes that calling Israeli policies towards the Palestinians “apartheid” is actually a “gift to Israel”; at least, if by apartheid one refers to South African-style apartheid. “I have held for a long time that the Occupied Territories are much worse than South Africa,” the professor explained.}}</ref><ref name="Democracy Now-2014">{{cite web|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing|title=Noam Chomsky: Israel's Actions in Palestine are "Much Worse Than Apartheid" in South Africa|work=Democracy Now|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=August 8, 2014}}</ref> South Africa depended on its black population for labor, but Chomsky argues the same is not true of Israel, which in his view seeks to make the situation for Palestinians under its occupation unlivable, especially in the [[West Bank]] and the [[Gaza Strip]], where "atrocities" take place every day.<ref name="MEM1"/> He also argues that, unlike South Africa, Israel has not sought the international community's approval, but rather relies solely on U.S. support.<ref name="MEM1"/> Chomsky has said that the Israeli-led [[Blockade of the Gaza Strip|blockade]] of the [[Gaza Strip]] has turned it into a "concentration camp" and expressed fears similar to Israeli intellectual [[Yeshayahu Leibowitz]]'s 1990s warning that the continued occupation of the [[Palestinian territories]] could turn [[Israeli Jews]] into "Judeo-Nazis". Chomsky has said that Leibowitz's warning "was a direct reflection of the continued occupation, the humiliation of people, the degradation, and the terrorist attacks by the Israeli government".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/188255-181108-chomsky-to-i24news-judeo-nazi-tendencies-in-israel-a-product-of-occupation|title=Chomsky to i24NEWS: 'Judeo-Nazi tendencies in Israel a product of occupation'|work=i24news|access-date=December 15, 2023|date=November 14, 2018|quote=“[[Yeshayahu Leibowitz|Leibowitz]] warned that if the occupation continues, Israeli Jews are going to turn into what he called, Judeo-Nazis. It’s a pretty strong term to use in Israel. Most people couldn’t get away with that but he did. It will happen, he argued, simply by the dynamics of occupation,” Chomsky told i24NEWS. “If you have your jackboot on somebody’s neck, you have to find a way to justify it. So you blame the victims. Leibowitz’s warning was a direct reflection of the continued occupation, the humiliation of people, the degradation, and the terrorist attacks by the Israeli government. We have many historical examples of that. Europe has plenty of them. And I think that’s what you are seeing in Israel,” he explained.}}</ref> He has also called the U.S. a violent state that exports violence by supporting Israeli "atrocities" against the Palestinians and said that listening to American mainstream media, including [[CBS]], is like listening to "Israeli propaganda agencies".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://imemc.org/article/72694/|title=Noam Chomsky: Israeli Apartheid 'Much Worse' Than South Africa|work=IMEMC|date=August 20, 2015|access-date=December 15, 2023}}</ref>

Chomsky was denied entry to the [[West Bank]] in 2010 because of [[Political positions of Noam Chomsky#Views on Israel and Palestine|his criticisms of Israel]]. He had been invited to deliver a lecture at [[Bir Zeit University]] and was to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister [[Salam Fayyad]].{{sfn|Pilkington|2010}}{{sfn|Bronner|2010}}{{sfn|Al Jazeera|2010}}{{sfn|''Democracy Now!''|2010}} An [[Israeli Foreign Ministry]] spokesman later said that Chomsky was denied entry by mistake.{{sfn|Kalman|2014}}

In his 1983 book ''The Fateful Triangle'', Chomsky criticized the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] for its "self-destructiveness" and "suicidal character" and disapproved of its programs of "armed struggle" and "erratic violence". He also criticized the Arab governments as not "decent".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Said |first1=Edward |title=Permission to narrate |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v06/n03/edward-said/permission-to-narrate |journal=London Review of Books |access-date=January 18, 2024 |language=en |date=February 16, 1984|volume=06 |issue=3 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Said |first=Edward |date=1984 |title=Permission to Narrate |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2536688 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=27–48 |doi=10.2307/2536688 |jstor=2536688 |issn=0377-919X}}</ref> Given what he has described as his very Jewish upbringing with deeply Zionist activist parents, Chomsky's views have drawn controversy and criticism. They are rooted in the [[kibbutz]]im and socialist binational cooperation.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rich |first=Melanie S. |chapter=10. Noam Chomsky: The Controversial Jew |title=Jews in Psychology and the Psychology of Judaism |date=December 16, 2008 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.31826/9781463214845-012/html?lang=en |pages=77–84 |access-date=December 22, 2023 |publisher=Gorgias Press |language=en |doi=10.31826/9781463214845-012 |isbn=978-1-4632-1484-5}}</ref> In a 2014 interview on ''[[Democracy Now!]]'',  Chomsky said that the charter of [[Hamas]], which calls for Israel's destruction, "means practically nothing", having been created "by a small group of people under siege, under attack in 1988". He compared it to the electoral program of the [[Likud]] party, which, he said, "states explicitly that there can never be a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. And they not only state it in their charter, that's a call for the destruction of Palestine, explicit call for it".<ref name="Democracy Now-2014" />