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| In your interview with Noam Chomsky (22 March) you write that he "has been called, by the Nation, 'America's most prominent self-hating Jew'". In fact the phrase comes from a 1988 review of The Chomsky Reader in the Nation by Brian Morton, who at the time was editor of Dissent magazine. In attempting to account for "15 years of wild responses" to Chomsky's writings on the Middle East, Morton observed: "If Chomsky has acquired the reputation of being America's most prominent self-hating Jew, this is because, in the United States, discussion about the Middle East has, until recently, taken place within very narrow bounds." Over the years Nation writers and Professor Chomsky have not always agreed. But the tenor of the relationship is probably best captured by the first line of that same review: "If only for the role he played during the Vietnam war, Noam Chomsky should be honoured as a national hero." DD Guttenplan Maria Margaronis London bureau, The Nation | In your interview with Noam Chomsky (22 March) you write that he "has been called, by the Nation, 'America's most prominent self-hating Jew'". In fact the phrase comes from a 1988 review of The Chomsky Reader in the Nation by Brian Morton, who at the time was editor of Dissent magazine. In attempting to account for "15 years of wild responses" to Chomsky's writings on the Middle East, Morton observed: "If Chomsky has acquired the reputation of being America's most prominent self-hating Jew, this is because, in the United States, discussion about the Middle East has, until recently, taken place within very narrow bounds." Over the years Nation writers and Professor Chomsky have not always agreed. But the tenor of the relationship is probably best captured by the first line of that same review: "If only for the role he played during the Vietnam war, Noam Chomsky should be honoured as a national hero." DD Guttenplan Maria Margaronis London bureau, The Nation |
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