Notice Chomsky’s assumption that the anti-Semitic red meat that Islamic leaders throw to their eagerly devouring audiences is no worse and no different than what American politicians say and do in order to please the American public. The only thing that upsets him about Mahathir’s remarks is that they might a) prove the existence of anti-Semitism in the world and b) undermine activist elements of the left.
Notice also that Chomsky takes it for granted that any revelations of anti-Semitism even in a distant foreign land like Malaysia will be blamed on the left. Does this suggest a guilty conscience?
Our M.I.T. guru also has assisted anti-Semitic organizations in another quieter way by allowing them to publish or disseminate his books articles and recordings. Noontide Press the book-publishing arm of the Holocaust-denying organization the Institute of Historical Review has brought out an edition of Chomsky’s book The Fateful Triangle one of his more extended attacks on Israel and Zionism. (This edition is still available through Amazon Books.)
Noontide advertises on its current online catalog two audio lecture presentations by Chomsky The Middle East Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Parts 1 & 2 that amount to sustained verbal assaults on Israel. The Institute’s scholarly periodical The Journal of Historical Review published an article by Chomsky entitled All Denials of Free Speech Undercut a Democratic Society in its Spring 1986 issue; it is still available from the IHR’s online catalog.
In the same vein is Chomsky’s involvement with the Holocaust-denying French publishers Pierre Guillaume and Serge Thion who published Robert Faurisson’s book with Chomsky’s preface. At the same time that Chomsky began making public statements on behalf of Faurisson he assigned publication rights for the French edition of his book The Political Economy of Human Rights to Guillaume and Thion. This saved them from bankruptcy and gave them the money to publish numerous Holocaust-denying works of scholarship.
In addition according to a memoir written by Guillaume about his friendship with Chomsky the fact that the Guillaume-Thion duo were the publisher and editor respectively of Chomsky’s book helped to rehabilitate their reputations which had been damaged by their Holocaust-denial activities.
Even more bizarre is Chomsky’s presence on the website www.oswaldmosley.com which commemorates the British Union of Fascists Britain’s pre-World War II fascist organization and its founder Oswald Mosley. Among the free books for downloading advertised on this site along with the collected works and autobiography of Mosley is an article by Chomsky entitled What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream?
The site also uses a quotation from Chomsky as the masthead for a reprint of a 1947 article by Mosley himself which protests the unfairness of the Nuremberg trials. The quotation from Chomsky reads If the Nuremberg laws were applied today then every Post-War American president would have to be hanged.
At one time this avowedly fascist site also contained an admiring article about Chomsky entitled Noam Chomsky’s Search For The Truth. It commends Chomsky for his role as a patron of the Holocaust-denial ( revisionist ) movement and for his endorsement of Israel Shahak’s tirades against Judaism. According to the unidentified author Chomsky’s opposition to organized Jewry particularly the Zionist variety is on a more erudite level. He can balance Left and Right and appeal to both in his condemnation of both Israel and America and his belief that the Jewish religion is anti-social. His is a rejection of dogma and a moral courage that secures he is taken seriously by everyone.
Radio Islam one of the most virulent of the thousands of anti-Semitic sites on the Internet publishes at least ten articles or chapters from books by Chomsky for free on-site in addition to direct links to several Chomsky publications at other sites. And this list does not even include the numerous lengthy quotations from Chomsky’s writings highlighted in borders.
