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According to Chomsky—and I agree—divestment is a foolish idea. And Chomsky doesn’t just oppose divestment the same way some people oppose the designated hitter rule; he is the self-proclaimed “leading opponent” of divestment. So why...
When I asked him about this via e-mail, Chomsky wrote: “The reasons are well understood by anyone who is involved in human rights and related activities: one signs petitions when one agrees with their main thrust and recognizes their human significance. No one who signs a...
“He was the reason that many people signed the petition. His was the single most important name on the petition,” Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said. “Anyone who’s an expert at petitions knows that the key...
Interestingly, of 56 MIT faculty who signed the petition other than Chomsky, 14 teach linguistics and another seven are in brain and cognitive sciences. Four out of five professors at Israeli universities who signed studied linguistics at MIT.
“There is no question that Chomsky influenced the petition-signers,” MIT’s Florez Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker wrote in an e-mail. Pinker, a well-known linguist who signed the anti-divestment petition, stressed that differing political viewpoints do not affect...