Noam Chomsky and Zionism

In many Left circles, Noam Chomsky--despite being extremely criticial of Israel and the US/Israel empire--is still considered a Zionist.  Because he once criticized the goals of "BDS" against Israel (not the boycott and divestment tactics themselves, or their use with regards to Israel).  He said then that outsiders should not be imposing a solution, such as a binational state, when many Palestinians supported the Two State Solution.  (He said that about 10 years ago and it might not be applicable now.)

Funny thing is, that Chomsky himself supported a binational entity from the beginning!  In the Chomsky Reader (1987) he says:

I was interested in a socialist, binationalist options for Palestine, and in the kibbutzim and the whole cooperative labor system that had developed in the Jewish settlement there (the Yishuv)....  The vague ideas I had at the time [1947] were to go to Palestine, perhaps to a Kibbutz, to become involved in efforts at Arab-Jew cooperation within a socialist framework, opposed to the deeply antidemocratic concept of a Jewish state.

That sounds like anti-Zionism to me!  Indeed, in the same book, Chomsky says:

what was then called Zionist ... is now called anti-Zionist