special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and dissident noam chomsky. on the twin threats of climate change and new there were, we will talk about north korea, iran, and syria. plus, we ask you about the trump administration's threat to prosecute wikileaks founder julian assange. >> if the charge is true, he should be honored for it. chelsea manning and edward acts.n, courageous they fulfilled the responsibility of someone who takes citizenship seriously. that is who believes the people of the country ought to know something about what their government is up to. amy: noam chomsky for the hour in a public conversation i had with him in cambridge, massachusetts. all of that and more, coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this democracy now! special, we spend the hour with the world-renowned linguist and political dissident noam chomsky. in a public conversation we had in april, we talked about climate change, nuclear weapons, north korea, iran, the war in syria, and the trump administration's th

people would you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton camp people came into power the center right has become the right and there's no peace party that exists in my country i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the the green party among others arrows make fun of it. you know why i don't know me so well a year in america i always had the feeling the democrats would the the people at least we were concerned about peace now that seems to have been squandered that feeling is squandered and i don't sense any any sense of consensus the only one who did was bernie sanders and if you remember correctly he very rarely mentioned foreign policy he stayed away from it because he knew that was a third rail for him and he was too socialistic for america to actually well i don't know much about because america may hand up in relatively has to go really may have to go more socialistic in order to survive beca

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printers and caterpillar construction equipment noam chomsky he's a jewish philosopher and he spoke to up front with mehdi hasan that saying that there's a difference between illegal israeli settlement products and purely israeli products take a listen but you confused two things you said that israel and the occupied territories those are two different versions of b.d.s. the kind that i support that i believe for the norman finkelstein support or the aspect of media is aimed at the occupied territories and in fact those are the ones that have been quoted keep cesspool people around the world are supporting palestinians in other ways like through social media activism fashion statements like wearing certain scarves and nonviolent protests and we asked some palestinians about what they think the most expected way of protesting this. supporting the death is our. duty and that is going to make us. to give us more papers on the table of the confrontation with social media like facebook to where they are and many of the websites and social networks may help we may share how we are suffering

i think for the united states, it and this is a point that brother noam chomsky makes with quite power, that there is the moral character of the state of israel can be affected by courageous and loving american citizens. not just our precious jewish citizens in america, all american citizens, given the $3 billion or more that go directly and to aid for israel. him we do have something at stake, morally, spiritually, as well as financially. that is not the case. 30 seconds. that is not the case for other states at all. i would want you to think very seriously about the words of my dear brother alan dershowitz. that i could feel the moral passion that he has for the plight of the jewish people that were there for 2000 years under levels of programs and tax and persecution. there are many ways unprecedented and it is real. it is possible to stay in contact with those realities and still support the last nonviolent attempt to ensure that palestinians, that arabs are treated with tremendous dignity. eric: thank you, that is your time. [applause] dr. dershowitz: so we have a major point of a

noam chomsky has been called an anti-semitic. he is not anti-semitic, he just disagrees with alan. dr. dershowitz: he was my camp counselor in 1948. dr. west: you just had a disagreement. you have to keep track of the anti-semitic elements, but you cannot use that as a way of trumping. i cannot use that anymore. [laughter] dr. west: for a way of closing dialogue. that is a very delicate tightrope to watch. if you are concerned about the legacy of amos and isaiah and martin luther king and dorothy , identity card, i am an arab. if we are really concerned about that, we will have to take -- have to acknowledge it is a new day. i believe that my dear brother alan is still caught within the old framework. that framework is coming to an end. what will emerge, we what will emerge is a love affair with the jewish people, the palestinian people, and believe that both peoples, myself as a christian, made in the image of, deserve as much attention and sensitivity in their plight is the other. that is part of our spiritual challenge on this issue. >> we have gone longer the night land. -- lon

addressing historians like william appleman williams or noam chomsky he had this grand design perceptionas though people engineering these huge spacious plans for decades and decades when you talk about the second world war, beleaguered, tired, old, making piecemeal arrangements, two grand designs, irreconcilable, the realistic conception of history. >> you are quite right to identify lieber as a member personally and intellectually to arthur schlesinger. when historian has written that effectively what schlesinger did is take the conservative analysis and apply it for progressive ends. he takes on board this idea, even quoting -- i will misquote here, i apologize for everyone, he quotes the words of pascal in his books, the just of which one of the problems for mankind, we are roots effective not just because we want to act in ways that are evil but often in a way that is good. he is very wary of this kind of sense, as you say, perceiving carefully but what schlesinger does is to take that and to say because of this, we can look at these, we can look at trendss and progressive ends and