OPINION:
Make way for the next wave of Marxist-minded college graduates.
The University of Arizona has just hired Noam Chomsky, noted radical leftist and open supporter of the terror group Hezbollah, to teach on a part-time basis a course called, “What is Politics?”
Hmm, we’ll take “indoctrination” for 500, Alex. This is the same guy, after all, who told the BBC in a November 2017 interview that the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in “human history.”
[The course will include] issues in contemporary political analysis, human values and political goals, how governments differ and why they change, how nations differ from one another,” the description reads, Campus Reform noted.
Ostensibly, it will also weave in there some of Chomsky’s support of an organization deemed, since October 1997, a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department.
Here’s what Chomsky said in May 2006 on Al Manar TV, about the arming of the terror group: “Hezbollah’s insistence on keeping its arms is justified. … I think [Hezbollah leader] Nasrallah has a reasoned argument and persuasive argument that [the arms] should be in the hands of Hezbollah as a deterrent to potential aggression.”
A month later, Hezbollah used these arms that Chomsky supported to launch an attack on Israel, Camera.org reported.
The headlines from Chomsky’s remarks, made while in Lebanon and captured by MEMRI, reverberated throughout the world.
“Noah Chomsky hangs out with Islamic Terrorists (Hezbollah),” rang one headline from AustralianNeoCon.
Chomsky later met with a senior member of Hezbollah, Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, and attended the inauguration of the terror group’s “war museum, complete with replicas of guerrillas in action on the battle field and in underground tunnels and memorial for its war dead,” as the Lebanon-based Ya Libnan reported in May, 2010. There, he reportedly spoke of Hezbollah as the victim of U.S.-Israeli policies.
“Chomsky said during the meeting [with Qaouk] that the Israeli war against Lebanon in 2006 came under an American decision in this regard,” the newspaper wrote.
This is the guy the University of Arizona wants to teach about politics?
The college’s vice president of communications, Chris Sigurdson, defended the hiring decision by say: “We regularly feature events which feature a diversity of speakers and political thought, including Charles Murray and Dinesh D’Souza just last semester. David French, senior writer for the National Review, and Matt Miller of the Goldwater Institute will be speaking here in September.”
Great. Well and good. Now hire one of those conservatives to teach a politics class alongside Chomsky and maybe the comparison becomes an apples-to-apples.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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