The Chomsky Hoax

Articles and documents exposing the dishonesty and fanaticism of extreme left-wing propagandist and genocide denier Noam Chomsky.


General


Paul Bogdanor,
The Top 200 Chomsky Lies [PDF]
          Documentation of 200 egregious lies about communist mass murderers, modern history, the Cold War,
          the Vietnam War, 9/11, Latin America, the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Holocaust denial, etc.
          Also lists misquotations, numerical distortions and worthless sources used in his writings. (The original
          100 lies are also available in
Spanish.)
Paul Bogdanor,
The Wit and Wisdom of Noam Chomsky
          Quotations the Chomsky cultists would like you to ignore.
Stefan Kanfer,
America’s Dumbest Intellectual
          An excellent brief introduction to Chomskyism.
J. Bradford DeLong,
My Very, Very Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky
          Ridicules Chomsky statements about Bosnia, Holocaust denial and the Khmer Rouge.
Keith Windschuttle,
The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky
          An overview of Chomsky’s disgraceful political career.
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky Recollects
          Chomsky wrote that Americans were no better than Nazis. Then he lied about it.

Book Reviews

American Power and the New Mandarins
Arthur Schlesinger,
Three Cheers For Professor Chomsky - But Not Just Now [PDF]
Arthur Schlesinger and Noam Chomsky,
Exchange: Truman’s Speech and Noam Chomsky [PDF]
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky and the Vietnam War - A Study in Failure
Oliver Kamm, Chomsky and the Vietnam War - A Study in Propaganda

Peace in the Middle East?
Benjamin Kerstein, Review

Political Economy of Human Rights
Stephen J. Morris, Chomsky on US Foreign Policy [PDF]
Paul Bogdanor,
Chomsky’s Totalitarian Apologetics
Paul Bogdanor,
Chomsky’s Genocide Denial

Towards a New Cold War
C. M. Woodhouse, The Anti-American Case [PDF]

Fateful Triangle
Paul Bogdanor, Chomsky’s Protocols

Manufacturing Consent
Paul Bogdanor, Manufacturing Distortions

What Uncle Sam Really Wants

J. Bradford DeLong,
My Allergic Reaction to Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Kerstein, Review

Powers and Prospects/Class Warfare

Roger Scruton,
Rash Thinker Who is in Two Minds

The New Military Humanism
Adrian Hastings, Chomsky and Kosova

A New Generation Draws the Line
Marko Attila Hoare, Nothing is Left

9/11
Carlin Romano, Once Again, Chomsky’s on Anti-US Hobbyhorse

Hegemony or Survival

Amir Taheri,
Chomsky Identifies “The Evil” That Haunts the World

Interventions
Jonathan Rauch,
Notes From a Gadfly

Ideology

Nathan Folkert, Chomsky on Violence
          On Chomsky’s support for totalitarian terror and mass murder.
Barry Loberfeld,
The Coercive Anarchism of Noam Chomsky
          The true nature of Chomsky’s anarchist-communist ideology.
James Ostrowski,
Chomsky’s Economics
          Chomsky wants to abolish the state so that he can impose
far more control over the population.
Rajeev Advani,
The Crimes of Democratic Capitalism
          Chomsky exploited the horrors of democratic socialism in India to mitigate the horrors of totalitarian
          communism in China.
Paul M. Postal,
Noam Chomsky and the Quest For Social Justice
          An academic colleague exposes his manipulative rhetoric about international human rights standards.


Cold War

Russil Wvong, Chomsky Responds to Criticism of PPS/23 Quote
Russil Wvong,
A Response to Chomsky’s Quotation of PPS/23
          Chomsky distorts a Cold War document.
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky on Milosevic, Stalin and Germany
          Chomsky revives
discredited myths about the 1952 Stalin Note on the status of Germany.
Tom Nichols,
Re: Chomsky: A Principled Dissenter
          A Cold War historian exposes Chomsky’s falsification of the history of the arms race.
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman,
Handling Dissidents: The “Free-World Model” [PDF]
Joshua Muravchik,
Latin American and Soviet Repression [PDF]
          Chomsky tries to belittle Soviet crimes.
Charles Kalina,
Chomsky and Afghanistan
          Quick rebuttal of Chomsky’s ludicrous false analogy between American intervention in Vietnam and the
          Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Vietnam

Noam Chomsky,
In North Vietnam
          Chomsky undertakes a stagemanaged tour of North Vietnam and argues that this
hideous dictatorship
          “offers the peasant hope for the future.”
Vietnam News Agency,
Spring Peace Offensive of American People Welcomed [PDF]
          An official North Vietnamese record of Chomsky’s enthusiastic collaboration with
totalitarian tyranny.
Tim Starr,
Noam Chomsky: Viet Cong Cheerleader
          Chomsky’s notorious speech glorifying the communist
mass murderers in North Vietnam. Chomsky has
         
admitted in print to delivering this speech.
Anders Lewis,
Noam Chomsky: Unrepentant Stalinist
          Debunks the Chomsky propaganda version of the Vietnam War.

Cambodia


Noam Chomsky,
Comments on Cambodia [PDF]
          Chomsky credits the Khmer Rouge dictatorship with saving up to a million lives.
James A. Donald,
Chomsky Lies
          Point-by-point refutation of Chomsky’s infamous genocide denial essay in
The Nation.
Noam Chomsky,
Letter on Cambodia [PDF]
Leopold Labedz,
Chomsky Revisited [PDF]
          Chomsky suggests that Khmer Rouge atrocities have been inflated by “a factor of 1,000.” He is then taken
          apart by Labedz in one of the most devastating rebuttals ever written. If you only read one discussion of
          Chomsky’s political views, make it this one.
Robert Manne,
Response to Chomsky [PDF]
West Midlands Anarchists,
Noam Chomsky on Cambodia
          First-rate analyses of Chomsky’s genocide denial.
Sophal Ear,
The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia
Bruce Sharp,
Averaging Wrong Answers: Noam Chomsky and the Cambodia Controversy
          Massively detailed studies of Chomsky’s Khmer Rouge apologetics.
Nathan Folkert,
Noam Chomsky on the CIA Demographic Catastrophe Report
         
Chomsky’s falsification of the CIA demographic study of Cambodia.
Noam Chomsky and Charles Burton,
Exchange on Cambodia [PDF]
Noam Chomsky and Adam Roberts,
Exchange on Cambodia
“Trilateral Chairman,”
Noam Chomsky on Cambodia
          Chomsky’s deceitful efforts to rewrite his record of genocide denial.


Yugoslavia


Marko Attila Hoare,
Chomsky’s Srebrenica Shame - and The Guardian’s
          Chomsky’s appalling record on the war crimes in Yugoslavia.
Ed Vulliamy et al.,
Srebrenica: Defending the Truth
Marko Attila Hoare, The Guardian, Noam Chomsky and the Milosevic Lobby
          Bosnia specialists and genocide survivors denounce Chomsky.
Oliver Kamm et al.,
Chomsky, The Guardian and Bosnia
          Newspaper columnists denounce Chomsky.
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky Bamboozles on the Balkans I II III
          Chomsky falsifies sources to conceal war crimes and concentration camps.
David Watson,
Letter to the New Statesman
Roger Lippman,
Noam Chomsky on Kosovo
          Chomsky’s disgraceful apologetics for the crimes of the Milosevic regime.


Israel


Paul Bogdanor,
The Devil State: Chomsky’s War Against Israel [PDF]
          Comprehensively refutes Chomsky’s lies about the Arab-Israeli conflict. From Edward Alexander and
          Paul Bogdanor, eds.,
The Jewish Divide Over Israel; an abridged version appeared in Peter Collier and
          David Horowitz, eds.,
The Anti-Chomsky Reader.
Alan Dershowitz,
Chomsky’s Immoral Divestiture Petition
Benjamin Kerstein, Noam Chomsky is an Iconic Mass Murderer...
          The Chomsky-Dershowitz debates on Israel.
Ali Hussein,
Chomsky Needs to Learn a Lot More About Lebanon
David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin,
Noam Chomsky’s Love Affair With Nazis
Zachary Hughes,
Noam Chomsky’s Support For Hezbollah
          Chomsky travels to Lebanon and
openly embraces the genocidal fanatics of Hezbollah.
Noam Chomsky,
Hamas Policies Are More Conducive to a Peaceful Settlement Than Those of the US or Israel
          Chomsky tells Lebanese viewers that Hamas positions are “preferable to the policies of the United States
          and Israel,” which are “very similar to those of Hitler.”
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky and Conspiracy Theory
Adriene Sere,
The Dance of Deception
“Grasshoppa,”
Chomsky Lies (Again)
Alan Dershowitz,
Chomsky’s New Blood Libel
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky on Palestine & Israel
          Representative Chomsky falsehoods exposed.


Antisemitism


W. D. Rubinstein,
Chomsky and the Neo-Nazis [PDF]
          Examines Chomsky’s belief that Holocaust denial is not antisemitic and that Holocaust deniers have been
          maligned. Also notes the parallel between Nazi apologetics and Chomsky’s Khmer Rouge genocide denial.
Pierre Vidal-Naquet,
On Faurisson and Chomsky
          On the notorious Chomsky preface to Faurisson’s book.
Nadine Fresco,
The Denial of the Dead: On the Faurisson Affair
          Detailed analysis of the Faurisson scandal.
Werner Cohn,
Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers
          The definitive work on Chomsky’s neo-Nazi involvements.
Werner Cohn,
Chomsky and the French Neo-Nazis: Some Documents
          Comments on the Guillaume essay below.
Rachel Neuwirth,
The Chomsky File
          The sordid history of Chomsky’s involvement with Jew-hatred, which extends beyond collaboration with
          Holocaust deniers.

Chomsky’s Jewish Critics

Edward Alexander,
The Secret Life of Noam Chomsky [PDF]
Carlos P. Otero,
The Attack on Noam Chomsky Was Unjustified [PDF]
Edward A. Stern,
Noam Chomsky’s Politics and Albert Einstein’s Violin [PDF]
Noam Chomsky,
Chomsky’s Words Stand on Their Own [PDF]
Edward Alexander and Edward A. Stern,
Response to Chomsky [PDF]
          Illuminating debate on Chomsky’s antisemitic connections.
Noam Chomsky and Edward Alexander,
Exchange: Holocaust Denial [PDF]
          Chomsky tries to cover his tracks with a defamatory
rant against his chief opponent.

Chomsky’s Nazi Admirers

Pierre Guillaume,
A Clarification
          A French Holocaust denier shows how Chomsky single-handedly saved the denial movement from
          collapse. He even gave the deniers translation rights for his books! Chomsky assisted in the preparation
          of this essay. For discussion, see the preceding articles by Cohn.
Institute for Historical Review,
“One of the Best Exposés of Zionist Mythology...”
Institute for Historical Review,
“Chomsky’s Valuable Insights...”
          American Holocaust deniers endorse Chomsky’s anti-Israel ravings.
Friends of Oswald Mosley,
Noam Chomsky’s Search For the Truth
         
British fascists sing Chomsky’s praises.

Al-Shifa and 9/11


Noam Chomsky,
On the Bombings
          Chomsky equates the 9/11 massacres with the American bombing of a factory in Sudan.
Leo Casey,
The Unbearable Whiteness of Chomsky’s Arguments
Noam Chomsky,
Reply to Casey
Leo Casey,
Let Us Not Inherit This Ill Wind
Noam Chomsky,
Second Reply to Casey
          Exchange on Chomsky’s Sudan allegations. Casey shows that Chomsky’s sources are worthless.
Brian Carnell,
Chomsky Needs a Fact-Checker
Brian Carnell,
How Many People Died as a Result of US Bombing of Sudan?
         
Chomsky invokes another worthless source and fabricates statements by Human Rights Watch.
Oliver Kamm,
Chomsky Redux
          On Chomsky’s response to the exposure of his fabrications.


War on Terrorism


Noam Chomsky,
The New War Against Terror [RealPlayer Video]
          Lecture to the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT, October 18, 2001, containing his infamous lie that
          America was inflicting a “silent genocide” on Afghanistan (at 9:20-9:30 and 10:35-11:15 mins.). Chomsky
          warned that millions would die within
the next couple of weeks.
Massive Food Delivery Averts Afghan Famine
Ronald Radosh,
The Last Word on the Afghan “Genocide”
          American intervention
prevented famine in Afghanistan.
Brian Carnell,
Chomsky Backpedals on Silent Genocide in Afghanistan
          Chomsky accused the Bush Administration of attempting to murder 3-4 million people in Afghanistan and
          then denied that he had made the accusation.
Charles Kalina,
Re: Drain the Swamp and There Will Be No More Mosquitoes
         
Point-by-point refutation of Chomsky’s sophistries concerning the War on Terrorism.
Christian Beckner,
Chomsky Doesn’t Know His WMDs
          Chomsky shows that he does not know the difference between radiological and nuclear weapons.
“NeoCenturions,”
Chomsky in Dublin
Jacob Laksin,
The Ayatollah of Anti-Americanism
Michael Weiss,
Fisking Chomsky’s Latest Bilge on Iran
Michael Weiss,
Fun With Chomsky’s Latest Hiccup
          Chomsky’s lies about the Iraq war and the Iranian nuclear crisis.


Chomsky’s Conspiracy Theories


Chomsky Calls US Imperialistic [PDF]
          Chomsky suggests that America is planning a war against Europe.
Chomsky Misuses Facts [PDF]
          Chomsky fabricates American plans to exploit the Iranian hostage crisis by building new missile systems
          and encircling the Indian Ocean.
Chomsky Lectures on US Foreign Policy
          Chomsky asserts that the Clinton Administration is “the most extreme fundamentalist administration,” but
          the American population “hasn’t got a clue to what’s going on.”
Faculty Hold Teach-In on Divestment
          Chomsky claims that America arms and finances Arab suicide bombers.
Interview: An Hour With Noam Chomsky [PDF]
          Chomsky argues [page 119] that sports, sex and
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? are media tools for
          controlling the population.
Larissa MacFarquhar,
The Devil’s Accountant [Excerpts]
          Chomsky claims that Pearl Harbor saved millions of lives and that America and Britain used Nazi armies to
          attack the Soviet Union and prolong the Holocaust.
Bill Frezza,
A Lion in Winter
          Chomsky suggests that America is selling nuclear warheads to the Israeli air force and that the search for
          a cancer cure is hoax.

Other


Konrad Koerner,
The Anatomy of a Revolution in the Social Sciences: Chomsky in 1962
          A leading historian of linguistics shows how Chomsky actually achieved academic prominence.
Peter Schweizer,
The Branding of the World’s Top Intellectual: Noam Chomsky
          Chomsky knowingly made millions of dollars in profits from the political and financial system he despises.
Samuel Korb,
Letter on Chomsky
          Eye-witness account of bullying by Chomsky.
Larissa MacFarquhar,
The Devil’s Accountant [Excerpts]
         
More examples of bullying by Chomsky.