STEVE PLAUT ON THE CHOMSKY BAN AND THE LIBERAL ANGST

Posted By on May 21st, 2010

  Well, the Left – led by Haaretz – is outraged that Israel refused to let Noam Chomsky enter the country.  Chomsky himself denounced Israel for refusing to let him in as “Stalinism.”  When I first heard that, I assume he meant it as a compliment.  After all, this is the guy who cheered all the Soviet regimes during the Cold War and served as the de-facto spokesman for the Khmer Rouge for years.

 

    The very same beautiful people now whining about Israel refusing Chomsky access to the country to engage in anti-Israel agitation were strangely silent when Britain prohibited 16 people from entering the country on grounds that they held politically incorrect opinions.  These included US radio host Michael Savage.  Before that the UK banned Rev. Fred Phelps from entering the country because he is anti-gay.   Few among the enlightened Left denounced the UK for fascism for those decisions.  Dutch politician Geert Wilders, a candidate for the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, was barred from entering the UK because of his opinions.  Jamaican reggae star Jah Cure was barred.   So was TV star Martha Stewart.  So was Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.  The UK has banned a whole host of Israelis from entering their country, including activist Moshe Feiglin.  No a single Israeli leftist tearing out hair at the barring of Noam Chomsky has yet to speak out against that!

 

    The United States has banned all sorts of people from entering, not limited to those suspected of having ties to terror groups.  In some cases it was because of their political views.  Journalist Robert Fisk was banned for that reason.  Professor John Milios from Greece was banned.  Curiously, few in the world denounced the US for being a fascist country for that.  Tariq Ramadan, the darling of the pro-jihad Left, was barred until recently from both the US and France.  The US and the EU banned the acting president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko from entering their territories.  In other cases, other factors were behind the bans.  A Vancouver psychologist who advocates use of LSD was banned from the US.  Singer Boy George was banned from entering the US.   So was singer Amy Winehouse.  So was Patricia Lara, a Colombian journalist.  So was Leonida Zurita Vargas, a Bolivian political activist.  Adam Habib, professor of political science and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, was barred from entering the United States for three years.  Liberian President Charles Taylor and other leading Liberians were banned from entering the US because of their support for revels in Sierra Leone.  Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was banned for a while.  Canada has also banned people because of their views or behavior, most famously the case of George Galloway, the British Member of Parliament with his intimate ties to Saddam Hussein.   “Singer” (yes, I need those scare quote marks) Snoop Dog is banned from entering Australia because of his “character.”

 

     Other democracies also ban people because of politics and ideology.  Germany, Austria and some other European countries routinely ban Neo-Nazis and Holocaust Deniers from entering their territories and sometimes jail them when they enter.  Germany banned the Reverend Moon from entering.  Malcolm X was once banned from entering France.  Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the head of the opposition in Thailand, has been banned from entering Germany or Japan.   The Philippines has a black list of many hundreds of people suspected of having Islamist ties that are banned from entering the country.  Switzerland has a list of around 200 Libyans that may not enter.  South Korean political activists have been barred from entering Japan.

 

      Banning people is not a custom only in the Western world.  Arab countries routinely ban Israelis and people with dual citizenship, when one of them is Israeli, from entering their borders altogether. South Africa banned Lance Armstrong from entering the country because of some things he had said that were not to the liking of the government.   Hugo Chavez banned Lech Walesa from entering Venezuela.  Rap singer AKON was banned from entering Sri Lanka.   Pakistan banned Indian actor Feroz Khan from entering its borders.  Uighur activists have been banned from entering South Korea.  Hungary’s president was banned from entering Slovakia.  A British woman was banned from entering New Zealand because she was too fat.  

 

 

 

 

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