...oh, the Technion indeed kills alright. It kills its own students with stress. Back to work...

Lots of technologies developed in universities worldwide were eventually adopted by armed forces worldwide and used for killing. Is Chomsky going to condemn the British & American universities who have developed technologies for weapons currently being use in Iraq & Afghanistan? This letter denouncing Boston University is only because they have agreed to host en exhibit for Israeli inventions. Will Chomsky come out and say he condemns all educational institutions worldwide which develop technologies used in warfare by any country not just Israel. If he won't then it shows this speech has nothing to do with misguided idealist view of the world its just another excuse for Israel bashing.

Like MIT where Chomsky teaches has never developed technology for US defense department. What a hypocrites?

It saddens me, that a bright man like Chomsky acts like this. Apart from this, the statement "beacon of progress in a desert of backwardness" is ab-so-f*ing-lute-ly true.

PUBLISH THE LIST OF SIGNATORIES !!

"Our worst enemies are Jews, who would of thought?" 'Who would HAVE thought' or 'Who would'VE thought' Your message is right but your grammar is wrong... שלום

finding something to complain about and for self-hatetred/destruction. It never ceases to amaze me. If your Israeli and you hate your own people and your own country this much, why don't you do us all a favour and just leave. PERMANENTLY! The Jewish Agency should really make an "yeridah" centre for these people or something.

MIT is the number one Defense Department contractor. In 1988 they received $430 million from the DOD, 80% of their total funding. Chomsky will never condemn MIT because he will lose his job and his Visa.

Just propagagandists who get salaries at Tel Aviv University. Their academic careers are a joke.

It seems that the point of this letter is that anything Israel does is merely a devious tactic to deflect from talking about the Israeli policies that interest the letter writers. Science exhibit? Deflection. Filmmaking? Deflection. Scientific congress? Participating in world chess championships? Playing a soccer game? Deflection, deflection, deflection! It's quite ridiculous.

The faisel Shazad the Jihads terrorism who wanted to explode the SUV in time square also have believed like those idiots, those idiots will never understand that the true reason of this conflict, they don’t get it that the conflict is not for that tiny land and it is about the destruction of Jewish State, they are blinds and dose not believe in true history the war of 1948 and 56 and 67 and73 and 83 and later intifadah and Oslo treaty and what did Israeli have get back from the Arafat, they did forget in 2001 how many innocent Israeli have been killed by waive of suicide bombers ,for sure those leftist are supporting the Goldstein and Ahmadinjad too.

Wow! There are Jewish Marxist university professors. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! I also heard that the sun rose in the east this morning.

Technion was represented at the event with an amazing exhibit called Dr. Robot. that highlighted its work in biomechanics to help save lives and perform operations through medical robotics. No death tech here! While Chomsky sits safely in the USA away from the reach of enemy missiles and rockets, all Israelis are more secure because of Technion research that helps protect us.

Ah, yes. All those deemed "righteous Jews" by Merscheimer, and every one of them congenitally hostile to Israel. I've elected not to support those Israeli institutions most rife with left wing hacks (Tel Aviv U, BG U and Hebrew U). I've supported Weizmann in the past, and actively support Technion now. Though even they include people like Snitz, I figure they can do less damage. If Chomsky had stuck to his area of expertise, he'd be just another obscure scholar. But as an anti-US and anti-Israel fixture, he gets a lot of play. And, as others have pointed out, he's a hypocrite. MIT's Lincoln Labs does extensive work with the US military.

Teitel and Ygal Amir shoud be free; Noam Chomsky, Kobi Snitz ,Rachel Giora, Anat Matar should be in prison for life. The above is the correct reasoning for Israel,frankly. These people are evil,very evil and should not breath the air of Israel and of nowhere in this world. The academia in Israel is ill;their minds are diseased.I don´t know if all,but a good amount is for sure.

should first critisize themselves with regards to propuganda and other things. a person who sits near nasrallah should not complain about israel and be considered honest.

1. Go to Gaza! You will get a Citizen-of-Honour title there. And Israel would be a much better place without you, like without Naturei Carta, just the same. It is a pity Israel is a democracy, because demacracies cannot survive in the face of barbaric terrorism and such deadly enemies as you from within. In a dictatorship you would be tried for treason and executed. 2. What about American drones in Pakistan? And did Pakistan attack the USA with rockets for 8 years?

Israel is the only country which continues to provide electricity and basic services to its enemies and routinely treats thousands of Palestinians in its own hospitals, even those who have Israeli blood on their hands. And yet it is the only country which, in the court of public opinion, is condemned for behaving ‘disproportionately’ when it uses targeted military means to defend itself, and is accused of causing the very ‘Nazi’ or ‘apartheid’ atrocities of which it itself is the victim. The world has lost its correctness. More about Islam at: http://xrl.us/kkxrc

Israeli academics that behave in this manner should lose their jobs in the Colleges of higher learning. They are a curse to the nation,

i heard him speak once at MIT, he calls American soldiers nazis, he's a complete communist nut job. His speech was a series of ramblings against the west. There is a small core of extreme left wing students that idolize but no one else pays attention to him or his cohorts except to laugh at them. He's on his last legs... Israel has strong presence in Boston and is always welcome with its technology...which is some of the best in the world

TAU has long been known as the Islamist university of Israel while the staff at Weizmann is still reeling from their continued decline in the world of scientific academia while the Technion is consistently ranked amongst the top ten globally.

I just can't understand why these people hate jewish "human's" Yes we all are of the human race but why the hate? I know it's not all religion so why? jealousy of a hard working smart people?

Ugh!!! Still have a bad memory of having to wade through one of his books during my university days. I'll swing with the Israelis on this one. Let the exhibit remain bothered by no one. Just posturing academics playing their usual games.

I finally understand: Only negative and false comments will be tolerated. The truth has no place. You know what? Keep the good inventions, and let them die like flies.

Proud of Israel and its technology achievements.....

You mean like the new electric car by Shai Agassi? You mean the Intel chips that make computing faster? You mean the cellphone which has connected people in remote places and saved lives? You mean the desert irrigation systems that helped populations in arid regions, like Africa, develop agriculture? You mean the water purification systems that helped save many lives, or the techniques in earthquake disaster relief that have saved many lives all over the world, most notably in Haiti? You mean the complicated heart surgery techniques and medical devices, like the medicated stent by Medinol that save many, many lives every day....even those who swear to Israel's destruction? You mean THOSE Israeli technologies??

If they employ a few liberal retards and let them spout the nonsense, they can continue to develop technology that is used in the military and still claim they are "humanistic". They are in Cambridge, after all.

The hypocrisy of this stinks; all their institutions have links with the military! And to boycott Better Place for having a former military CEO? Well, I guess they should also not avail themselves of any Health Ministry services, or any business where former officers work! (oops, that includes every Israeli university!) Displays like this bring disrepute upon the institutions that these "academics" come from - even in the academic world that's grounds for sacking! People need to be shown that free speech comes with responsibilities and, sometimes, consequences...