Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky as an opponent of Syrian Revolution
Noam Chomsky as a supporter of Russian colonialism
“ Noam Chomsky is totally wrong. Our government request heavy weapons. Our civil society leaders request heavy weapons. I personally request heavy weapons. Sorry, we don’t want to die and want to be able to defend ourself. Maybe it’s a surprise for some western intellectuals
Noam Chomsky as an opponent of Kosovo Decolonization
In April 1999, Chomsky and others signed a manifesto entitled “Academics Against NATO’s War in Kosovo”[1]. Igor Koršič of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, has provided critical comments on those statements[2].
In a 2006 interview with The New Statesman, Noam Chomsky made an inaccurate statement about the NATO 1999 intervention in the Kosovo war of 1998-1999. Speaking of Serbian actions in Kosovo, Chomsky said that “there were terrible atrocities, but they were after the [NATO] bombings” [3] [1]. As a matter of fact, in the year 1998 alone, the Serbian police and military had killed some 2,000 Kosovar Albanians while destroying the homes of 400,000. The Western military intervention itself was ultimately triggered by the Reçak/Račak massacre of January 15, 1999, where the Serbian police killed 45 civilians, as established by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. In a response to Chomsky in The New Statesman from June 21, 2006, Roger Lippman said:
- “Chomsky’s ethical and political failure is tragic... By legitimizing historical deceit and diminishing the sufferings of the Bosnians and Kosovars, he only succeeds in causing moral and political confusion where authentic principle and political clarity are most needed”.[2]
Other authors on the left have published similar replies: Michael Bérubé,[3] David Watson[4] and Oliver Kamm, who refutes Chomsky’s inaccurate reference to a British parliamentary inquiry.[5]
In writings and interviews, Chomsky misrepresented statements by a former high Clinton State Department official on the reasons for the Kosovo intervention.[6]
Chomsky has also expressed his support for Serbian nationalist war crime indictee Vojislav Šešelj,[7] who set up paramilitary groups to exterminate the Serbian Croats, Kosovo Albanians[8] and Bosnian Muslims, and establish a theocratic Greater Serbia.[9] [10] When Šešelj’s Serb Radical Party held a rally in Belgrade in December 2006 demanding Šešelj’s release from the Hague Tribunal where he is being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Noam Chomsky sent a letter of support that was read aloud at the event.[11] [12] [13]
- ^ “Academics Against NATO’s War in Kosovo” manifesto signed by Chomsky and others
- ^ Response to the anti-NATO manifesto by Igor Koršič of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Articles critical of Noam Chomsky
Mises Institute: “Chomsky’s Economics”
Reason magazine: “Deconstructing Chomsky”
Camera.org: “Noam Chomsky’s Support for Hezbollah”
Discoverthenetworks.org: “Noam Chomsky”
Paul Bogdanor: “The Chomsky Hoax”
FrontPage Magazine:
- “The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky”
- “The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky: Part II Method and Madness”
- “The Coercive Anarchism of Noam Chomsky”
- “Hanoi Chomsky”
- “Hanoi Chomsky II”
- “The Hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky”
- “Noam Chomsky’s Jihad Against America”
https://chomsky.info/20060619/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080621193024/http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/a_simple_request/
- ↑ Balkan Witness: “Deniers of Serbia’s War crimes”
- ↑ Roger Lippman in The New Statesman, June 21, 2006
- ↑ Response by Michael Bérubé, June 22, 2006
- ↑ Response by David Watson, June 23, 2006
- ↑ Response by Oliver Kamm, June 2006
- ↑ Discussions on Chomsky’s misrepresentation of the statements by a former high Clinton State Department official on the causes of the Kosovo intervention
- ↑ Vojislav Šešelj says he expects to pay for the services of famous experts, “including the US intellectual Noam Chomsky”
- ↑ Vojislav Šešelj’s Serb Radical Party’s Program for ethnically “Cleansing” Kosovo, 1991
- ↑ Vojislav Šešelj’s Serb Radical Party’s Program for a Greater Serbian Theocracy, 1996
- ↑ Chomsky appears at the top of a list of Šešelj’s foreign supporters. (Scroll down to find Chomsky in the company of such genocide apologists as Edward Herman, Sara Flounders, and David Peterson.)
- ↑ Chomsky sends a public letter of support to Vojislav Šešelj
- ↑ (In German.)
- ↑ (In Italian.)
