In related news, this crusty old useful idiot is still alive.
Via Mediaite:
Noam Chomsky recently appeared on Democracy Now! to talk about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and he made the assertion that “in the occupied territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid.” He said it’s not fair to compare Israel’s actions to what happened in South Africa those years ago, because it lets Israel off the hook.
Chomsky argued that whereas in South Africa, they needed the black population to be their workers, and so as bad as conditions were, “They tried to keep them strong enough to do the work that they needed for the country.”