chomsky’s response is telling about how disconnected he’s become:

Well, I think all of these things could lead to big changes in the future … It is based to a large extent on substantial shifts in public opinion…

The point at which it changed is easily identifiable: Operation Cast Lead. That was so brutal, violent, young people just weren’t going to take it any more. I think that was a real tipping point. You could see it very clearly in things like talks on campuses, even strongly pro-Israel campuses like Brandeis University …changed very sharply. These are attitudes of younger people that are going to have a big effect on all of us in the future. So there are conflicts brewing. You don’t see it yet in policy, but I think you can see the beginnings of it.

those “younger people” are middle aged now and make up a majority of american voters; isreali’s and palestinians, yet american voters were still only given the choice between 2 candidates that both wanted to perpetuate isreal’s genocide of the palestinians and the isreali people’s wishes were likewise sidelined by the ones who also wanted to perpetuate the same genocide.

i know from his work that chomsky’s well aware of how our political system is captured by our ruling classes, but continuing to espouse a belief in 2023 that things will change once the “younger people” take over makes it seem like he’s not paying attention anymore; it doesn’t matter what the younger generations want, profit is the only thing that matters and that’s been a fact since will before chomsky’s time.

Chomsky told us to vote for Biden while he was in the middle of committing genocide. He no longer has any credibility to speak on this.