impose authoritarian rule. it is him who is the enemy as much as it is the pals. in fact worse, because pals can have moderates among them. chomsky and his ilk know only authoritarianism.

Let's start with the fact that the Law of Return does not allow a Jewish person to be banned from entering the State of Israel. Border agents in Israel should become familiar with the country's laws first, before applying the law based on their own political personal preferences.

Frankly, this guy's comments add nothing to any discussion, and while it was probably foolish for Israel to ban him, nobody would miss his words. The Palestinians are fooling themselves if they think that Noam Chomsky is a worthy ally - he is a washed-up has-been whose intellectual contributions in his own field have been largely discredited and who has no credibility at all in proposing "solutions" in the Middle East.

this man is known as a rabid anti-semite and anti-american. why should ynet give this man false dignity by calling him an "american jewish intellectual"? does everyone who hates israel automatically get free press from ynet?

does this mean all countries are totalitarian? chumpsky needs to get a real life. maybe he could try living in his arab brothers' countries?

INHUMANE AND CRAZY NATION......DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE PART OF THE UN!!!!!!!!!!!

He instead went right to Al-Jazeera, a formal Israel-bashing media outlet, to air his grievances that Israel denied him his "human right" to delegitimize an entire country and people, and incite racist hatred in an already volatile situation. That's because only the racist Arab community and self-loathing liberals find his words of value. They certainly want to hear from him is he spoke against their firmly-set beliefs if he claimed Israel was a nice place and full of decent human beings. And he never was one to have opinions "critical" of Arab sensibilities.

Yet - you've embraced Chavez who recently cracked down so heavily on opposition figures and launched his Twitter brigade to inform on other citizens - characteristics of a totalitarian regime - and said nothing. It proves you are not a man of integrity but just another hack sensationalist academic looking for notoriety.

Is anyone who criticizes the actions of non-logical state of Israel be prevented from entering the country anyway, the students are the losers goodbye to Israeli democracy and it's actually a despotic state, as Noam Chomsky he said that Israel acting like 'totalitarian state' Israel should be proud of the character As Jewish-American intellectual

What happened to the only Democracy in the Middle East.? What happened to that 'light unto nations' you were supposed to show? Think something might be systemically wrong within yourselves and not with the outside world? TATA

I would suggest to the good professor to try slandering Syria, Iran, N. Korea perhaps Hamas. They might let him into those countries, but I'm afraid it would be a one way ticket. Actually, I take that back, I'm really not that afraid.

who cares what chomsky says or claims .. he's only mission is incitement. his pressance is incitment as he has become the poster boy for everything that is anti israel. since nothing that Israel does is ever appreciated by anyone anywhere in the world, why should we care about public opinion. The people that hate us, and there are plenty to go around ,won't change their minds no matter what do other than give all of israel back to the arabs. So who cares, let chomsky and his palestinians masters sit in jordan and complain that the israeli government won't let them in to spread their message of hate and incitement in the west bank. Surely that is logic even chomsky can understand.

He had a man crush on Pol Pot

I don't think Israel is preventing Chomsky from entering because of what he is saying.....I think they are stopping him because he is too funny looking.....:-) warm regards....Gregg

This guy is so left that he is completely off the reservation.

If you need a good chuckle every now and then, Chomsky can really make your day. Happy guy. A real Optimist. Fun.

you spoke at Israeli University? which one and when?

Good for Israel to show some gumption and ban this bad mouth. We don't need to listen to every person who wants to see us dead, especially this self hating Jew!

you see, the Israeli government treat the Chaidy as if they where animals do what ever they want with them, they must have mistaken him for a Chraidy person, sorry........

If Israel is going to boycott academics and activists who visit the Palestinian territories...then Israeli universities and academics deserve to be boycotted as well.

This very unusual behavior only happens in totalitarian states

keep chomsky out of here. we don't need jewish enemies.

He is nothing more than a money grubbing opportunist. He has about as much integrity as Bernie Madoff. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=1385b76d-6c34-4c22-942a-18b71f2c4a44&k=53758

No, Mr. Chomsky, we don't like what you have to say. You contribute nothing toward our goal of achieving peace with our eemies. Incitement of hatred with the intent to destroy the Jewish state does not make you a favorite person in these parts. Stick to France. There are so many others like you there.

Unless Israel halts and reverses this slide into fascist totalitarianism, unless Israel grants the Palestinians a viable separate state or full Israeli citizenship, Israel will lose its legitimacy. But first, like any addict, Israel must recognize it has a problem. Israel is addicted to hate, is addicted to its belief in its own moral superiority. America is its enabler.

Talk about totalitarianism, Mr. treason to his people forgot about the recent PA ruling giving 6yrs and a fine to any Arab buying Jewish products. He also forgot what Hamas did and still does in the Strip. But Israel's turnabout seems contrived..typical for Israeli leaders. They seem to have no policies, but only react. this time to a Jewish traitor. These Jewish terrorists forget that come the final jihad, like Daniel Pearl, they will find themselves w/o heads, you can count on that ( see Kapos:WW2). Oh Jewish self-hatred, it is so prevalent. The Arabs love it.

Somebody writes that this is but another threat to Israel's democracy. Threat? The threat is coming from Scuds in Lebanon and Fajrs in Hamastan. The threat comes from the PA's new requirements on it's people not to vote Jewish products (while Bibi's red lines include commerce between). If Chomsky is there to poison an already bad environment, his denied entry was appropriate. I mean, what did he hope to achieve? Ahmad is allowed to spread his garbage at the UN, and Goldstone betrays his own people to appease the UN and Obama. Okay, so there may have been a mistake. The mistake is Israel's lack of policy re: these instances. Are we Jews smart, or are we smart. Where was the world in 67 Mr. Chomsky? Or better, where from 1941 to 1945? Where were you then?