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	Chapter 5: The Intellectual as Commissar
		When all the facts are set forth, the Faurisson affair does tend to throw some of Chomsky's character flaws into relief, most clearly his unwillingness to practice simple appeasement when it comes to resolving his differences with those who attack him.
		Another remarkable aspect of the affair is the fact that it is used by Chomsky's detractors to divert attention away from his actual statements.
		The French reaction to Chomsky's participation in the Faurisson affair was equally forceful, and, particularly in the case of the media, propagandistic.
	cognet.mit.edu /library/books/chomsky/chomsky/5/5.html (1962 words)

	Robert Faurisson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faurisson, like most Frenchmen of that era, has said that he had anti-German sentiments during and immediately following World War II, but after reading the works of fellow Frenchmen Paul Rassinier and Maurice Bardèche, he began to question the Holocaust.
		Over the years Faurisson claims to have studied the Holocaust extensively, and in the late 1970s he says that he came to the conclusion that it was a hoax.
		In 1991, Faurisson was removed from his university chair on the basis of his views under the Gayssot Act, a French statute passed in 1990 that prohibited Holocaust denial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faurisson (407 words)

	Faurisson affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Faurisson affair is a term given to an academic controversy in wake of a book by Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier.
		Faurisson's conclusions are diametrically opposed to views I hold and have frequently expressed in print (for example, in my book Peace in the Middle East, where I describe the Holocaust as "the most fantastic outburst of collective insanity in human history").
		But it is elementary that freedom of expression (including academic freedom) is not to be restricted to views of which one approves, and that it is precisely in the case of views that are almost universally despised and condemned that this right must be most vigorously defended.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faurisson_affair (1850 words)

	Noam Chomsky
		He has criticized the US government for its involvement in the Vietnam War and the larger Indochina conflict; its interference in Latin American affairs in countries like Guatemala, Chile, Nicaragua, and Argentina; and its military support of Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
		One of the most common charges is that the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is theoretical, and in practice anti-Zionism is a manifestation of anti-Semitism.
		Many people held that Faurisson's statements were the archetype of anti-Semitism, and that the logical conclusion of Chomsky's statement would be that Nazism was not anti-semitic.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chomsky.html (3184 words)

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		(Faurisson had been beaten up by students, then suspended from teaching by his university on the grounds that the university could not guarantee his safety.
		Later he was charged in court with "falsification of history".) A furore soon arose over the wording of the petition, which referred to Faurisson's "extensive historical research" and described his conclusions as "findings".
		Chomsky's critics saw this as a defence of Faurisson's opinions and not merely of his right to state them.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/n/no/noam_chomsky.html (4107 words)

	diary of an anti-chomskyite: July 2004
		Faurisson, as a partisan of the Palestinian cause; an enemy of this privileged, collaborationist Judaism and its suffocating power masquerading behind a mythos of victimhood; is axiomatically on the side of the angels and his enemies, therefore, nothing more than artisans of oppression and violence.
		Faurisson was one of France's most outspoken and prominent deniers of the Holocaust, and Chomsky's support for him, and in particular the language of the petition he signed, caused an uproar.
		Though Faurisson and most of his admirers are on the political right, they and their activities have been abetted by an extreme left-wing revolutionary group, La Vieille Taupe...Originally a bookstore, it has become a publishing house that shelters an informal coterie of revolutionary types.
	antichomsky.blogspot.com /2004_07_01_antichomsky_archive.html (5867 words)

	The “Chomsky Effect”: Episodes in Academic Activism
		The affair has also made him some bedfellows with whom he’d much rather not be associated, including revisionist groups of various stripes who use his ‘support’ for their freedom as a kind of ‘support’ for their position.
		Faurisson also questions Faurisson’s “research”, asking: “Is it or is it not the case that the petition represents Robert Faurisson as a serious historian who is undertaking real historical research?” (286).
		And concerning Faurisson’s anti-Semitism, Chomsky’s point remains as it was then: Vidal-Naquet had not at that time provided clear evidence of Faurisson’s anti-Semitism, and “if the harshest and most knowledgeable critic of Faurisson can produce nothing but that evidence in support of the charge of anti-Semitism, then the charge must be weakly grounded indeed.
	www.mit.edu /~saleem/ivory/ch6.htm (9340 words)

	Freedom of Expression
		Whatever one thinks of Faurisson, no one has accused him of being the architect of major war crimes or claiming that Jews are genetically inferior (though it is irrelevant to the civil-liberties issue, he writes of the "heroic insurrection of the Warsaw ghetto" and praises those who "fought courageously against Nazism" in "the right cause").
		Furthermore, if publicity is being accorded to Faurisson, it is because he is being brought to trial (presumably, with the purpose of airing the issues) and because the press has chosen to create a scandal about my defense of his civil rights.
		Barbara Spinelli writes that the real scandal in this affair is the fact that even a few people publicly affirm their support of the right to express ideas that are almost universally reviled -- and that happen to be diametrically opposed to their own.
	www.zmag.org /chomsky/articles/8102-right-to-say.html (2139 words)

	ARTHUR R. BUTZ: The Faurisson Affair - II
		It is well worth mentioning that Faurisson is a professional and specialist precisely in a discipline most relevant to such tasks; his field is "criticism of texts and documents." Among all those whose views have been prominently aired on any side in the "Holocaust" controversy, Faurisson is to my knowledge the only such specialist.
		He strays slightly away from such concerns in expressing his opinion that Faurisson is a "relatively apolitical liberal," but nowhere does he endorse any of Faurisson's theses pertaining to "exterminations" and "gas chambers." In the ensuing controversy Chomsky went further and vigorously subscribed to the received "Holocaust" legend.
		It was earlier noted that Faurisson has had a group of French supporters, more or less leftist, almost from the beginning of his "affair." Some of them wrote articles attempting to explain the nature and degree of their support, and what further thoughts have come to them as a result.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/3/3/Butz341-351.html (3971 words)

	Arthur R. Butz: The Faurisson Affair
		Serge Thion's book consists principally of a thorough exposition of this affair, but we are also treated to some discussion of earlier public controversies that surrounded Faurisson, of which the earliest did not concern Jews or World War II at all.
		Reacting to claims that he was a "Nazi," Faurisson had on 12 December 1975 addressed a letter to the President pointing out inter alia that he had never published anything that could support such a classification.
		On the other hand they knew Faurisson by reputation as a man of benevolent character and keen intellect, whose views could not be trifled with.
	www.vho.org /GB/Journals/JHR/1/4/Butz323-334.html (3426 words)

	Pierre Guillaume \| A Clarification (Une Mise Au Point)
		At the time Faurisson, tormented by worries provoked by the repercussions of the affair on his family, saw his ability to work reduced virtually to nothing; the task was crushing, the situation almost desperate.
		While his position in the Faurisson affair should logically have received general approval, on the contrary he found himself completely alone, proof that in this affair there is a dose of irrationality that must be taken into account.
		That would be to forget that Chomsky showed exceptional courage and determination, that he got involved unambiguously by denouncing the dishonesty of Faurisson’s enemies and that he firmly indicated that the defense of freedom of expression wasn’t limited to the defense of the freedom of allies.
	www.paulbogdanor.com /guillaume.html (6370 words)

	Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression, by Noam Chomsky
		The petition simply stated that Faurisson had presented his "finding," which is uncontroversial, stating or implying precisely nothing about their value and implying nothing about their validity.
		Then we must conclude that the person in question believes that the petition was "scandaleuse" because Faurisson should indeed be denied the normal rights of self-expression, should be barred from the university, should be subjected to harassment and even violence, etc. Such attitudes are not uncommon.
		In support of the charge of anti-Semitism, I have been informed that Faurisson is remembered by some schoolmates as having expressed anti-Semitic sentiments in the 1940s, and as having written a letter that some interpret as having anti-Semitic implications at the time of the Algerian war.
	www.chomsky.info /articles/19801011.htm (1547 words)

	Oliver Kamm: Chomsky and Holocaust denial
		Faurisson is a professor of history whose research led him to question the existence of gas chambers in Nazi Germany and to doubt the Holocaust.
		Faurisson was also convicted on separate charges of slandering another historian, and of incitement to racial hatred on account of antisemitic remarks made in a radio interview; again, both of these charges were correct, and in my view both prosecutions were justified.
		If there is a basis for criticising [Chomsky’s] actions in the Faurisson affair it is, I think, rather that, as one has a moral responsibility for the foreseeable consequences of one’s actions, Chomsky should perhaps have foreseen the negative effect of his actions and refrained from writing the way he did.
	oliverkamm.typepad.com /blog/2004/11/chomsky_and_hol.html (3298 words)

	Nadine Fresco: "The Denial of the Dead. On the Faurisson Affair". Ressources documentaires sur le génocide nazi / ...
		It is the new Jew, the lonely, flouted outsider, the hero of a segment of the French ultraleft: Robert Faurisson.
		Faurisson, who can't be had and who, like no one else, knows how to decipher a text, decides that this "special action," which the exterminationists insist on taking for a mass gassing, refers very simply to the executions of those condemned to death.
		Faurisson, who has understood the Nazi mentality as well as that of the pseudo-victims, does not believe that the Germans felt any need to camouflage their language and has decided that for the Nazis, as for him, a spade is a spade.
	www.anti-rev.org /textes/Fresco81a/body.html (9984 words)

	The Faurisson Affair, by Noam Chomsky
		The issue of the Faurisson affair is very far from settled, in two respects.
		Since the points are again obvious, a rational person will proceed also to question the motives of those who pretend to deny them, when it suits their particular political purposes.
		In this respect too the Faurisson affair is far from "settled," as you put it; in fact, the issues have yet to be addressed.
	www.chomsky.info /letters/1989----.htm (1493 words)

	Red State Son: Kammouflage
		But this essay was in no way a defense of Faurisson's views, only of his right to publish whatever he wanted without being prosecuted for historical deviationism, which he was at the time.
		And that was it for Noam, Faurisson, Holocaust denial, and the rest.
		So, Faurisson was indeed being prosecuted for his opinions, something that Kamm finds "justified." Slander is one thing, and open to interpretation.
	redstateson.blogspot.com /2006/09/kammouflage.html (1663 words)

	Pierre Guillaume remembers Guy Debord
		Professor Robert Faurisson of Lyon University is a French historical revisionist; the "affair" that bears his name concerns the suppression of his writings on the existence of gas chambers at the Nazi concentration camps.
		Perhaps because he personally was vocal in his support of Faurisson's positions and in his defense of Faurisson's right to free speech, Guillaume believed that the affair made it more likely that Debord would break his silence and say something, anything about La Vieille Taupe.
		To Guillaume, the content of Debord's Comments "doesn't seem to be explainable without the hypothesis of an implicit reference to the Faurisson affair." The point might be better put this way: some of Debord's remarks, especially those concerning censorship, could easily and appropriately be applied to Faurisson's situation.
	www.notbored.org /guillaume-comments.html (2062 words)

	The Active Revisionism of Jean-Gabriel Cohn-Bendit
		Gaby Cohn-Bendit has made revisionist statements, which he might even repeat today were it not for the pressure and the press campaigns which, during an electoral contest in his region in which the Greens were participating, have recently led him to dissociate himself from the revisionists.
		In the late 1970s and early 1980s, at the beginning of the "Faurisson Affair", his position on the subject of the Nazi gas chambers, the genocide of the Jews, and the number of European Jews who had died because of Nazism could be summed up in the following terms:
		Gaby Cohn-Bendit indeed pleaded in favour of the revisionists' freedom of expression but he did so with a strength and a self-assurance which were obviously drawn from the conviction that they had raised a real historical problem, a problem, he wrote, which "the historian cannot dismiss".
	codoh.com /viewpoints/viewfaurjgcb.html (772 words)

	Noam Chomsky - Extremist
		Instead, it mentions Faurisson's "extensive independent historical research." Defending an opinion is not the same thing as praising it.
		Chomsky ignored Faurisson's racism because he feels that nationalism, especially Jewish nationalism and Zionism, are themselves examples of racism.
		In the case of Cambodia, Chomsky felt he had to show that the massacres were less serious than the crimes committed by the United States, the most powerful country in the world and the one that Chomsky considers the most destructive.
	www.jochnowitz.net /Essays/ExtremistLang.html (2570 words)

	European History and the Arab World
		Pierre-Bloch, who sued Faurisson, said on the radio (Europe No. 1, Expliquez-vous Program of Ivan Levai, 17 December 1980) that he had on his desk, copies of Faurisson's work in many languages, including Chinese, and that all of this was paid for with Kadhafi's gold.
		The Faurisson Affair, which started being talked about after 1978, had almost no reverberations in the Arab World until the writing of this article, in January 1982 [4].
		If there was a lesson to draw from the Faurisson Affair, and in particular in the Arab World, it is that the effectiveness of political action depends on understanding the real mechanisms of social development, and that to reach them, one must first tear up the veil of ideology that masks them.
	codoh.com /zionweb/zionthion1.html (15040 words)

	Joel Hayward's Website: Joel Hayward, ZDaF, BA, MA Hons, PhD
		affair is its apparent relation to issues of academic freedom and intellectual fashions.
		Consequently both parties were embittered; neither could claim victory, and indeed, everyone seemed discredited by the whole affair: the academics felt betrayed and the NZJC felt that its cause had been frustrated.
		There were people whose passions had evidently been aroused by the affair and the extensive publicity it had received, and these had recourse to informal and sinister methods of expressing their anger.
	www.joelhayward.com /thehistorynowarticle.htm (8169 words)

	World Association of International Studies » Blog Archive » Re: Holocaust: German Concentration camps and ...
		Still under fierce attack in the pages of Le Monde, Faurisson sent yet another “right of reply” letter to the Paris daily, this one entitled “One proof … one single proof.” Le Monde, doubtless alarmed at the extent to which the affair had grown, refused to publish it.
		Faurisson has broadened and refined his outlook in interviews, books and numerous letters and essays.
		Faurisson: Until 1960, I believed in the reality of those gigantic massacres in “gas chambers.” Then, upon reading Paul Rassinier, a wartime r鳩stant and deportee who had written Le Mensonge d’Ulysse, I began to have doubts.
	cgi.stanford.edu /group/wais/cgi-bin/index.php?p=459 (2608 words)

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		Faurisson wrote a rebuttal of the statement,but it was refused for publication.In this letter, entitled ";A proof...one single proof," which Faurisson published a year later in his book Mèmoire en dèfense he offered what seemed to be a constructive proposal.
		Faurisson must have appeared to the famous linguist and public intellectual,who showed open disgust for the general subservience of the mainstream intelligentsia -"the herd of independent minds "-to the propaganda systems of their own governments,a fellow traveller worthy of support.
		Faurisson had cast himself in the role as an expert witness for the defense.In court,he claimed that the War Refugee Board report was one of ";the three pillars of the story of the gas chamber."72 Consequently,it was his job to demolish its credibility.Christie asked Faurisson why he attached no credence to the report.
	www.hdot.org /evidence/vanviii.asp (3471 words)

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		Robert Faurisson's struggles in France; it is assumed that the reader
		Faurisson, when given an amount of space in Le Monde (16 January 1979)
		Faurisson shows that the horrors Kremer was referring to were indeed
	www.ermcan.com /Dr-Kremer-8279942.html (2127 words)

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