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There is therefore no obligation, in defending or asserting  the right
to speak, to pass any comment on the truth or merit of what may be, or
is being, said. This is elementary.
     Also rather unsafe is the injunction (employed above most crudely
by Vidal-Naquet's colleague Arno Mayer) to be  careful of the use that
may be  made of  one's remarks  or signatures. Elsewhere  in the  same
essay, for example, Vidal-Naquet asserts, "In the case of the genocide
of Jews, it  is perfectly evident that  one of the  Jewish ideologies,
Zionism, exploits  this terrible massacre  in a way  that is  at times
quite. scandalous."  <Scandalous>-- the same  word that  he attaches  to
Chomsky's signature  on  a petition.  But he  supplies the  corrective
himself-- "that an ideology seizes upon a fact does not make this fact
inexistent." Precisely. And  the "fact" here is  that Chomsky defended
not Faurisson's work but his right  to research and publish it. Vidal-
Naquet  undoubtedly knows better  than to resort  to the old Stalinist
"aid and comfort" ruse. Where, then, is the core of his objection?
     Does this not  leave Arno  Mayer, also, in  some difficulty?  The
fact  that  neo-Nazis  may  have  seized  upon  Noam  Chomsky's civil-
libertarian defense  does not, of  itself, make that  defense invalid.
Or,  if it does,  then by himself  seizing upon what  they have seized
upon,  Mayer is "objectively" associating civil-libertarian principles
with the  Nazis-- an  unintended compliment  that the  latter scarcely
deserve.  Vidal-Naquet's  point  about Zionism's  exploitation  of the
Holocaust could, if  cleverly enough ripped from its  context, be used
to  support point  (4) in  Faurisson's "supplement"  above. Who  but a
malicious falsifier would make such a confusion as to who was in whose
<galere>?
     I wouldn't  accuse any of  the critics listed  here of deliberate
falsification.  But it  is nevertheless  untrue to  describe Chomsky's
purloined  <avis>  as  a  preface,  as Fresco  does  on  almost  a dozen
 
occasions  and as  Mayer does  twice. It  is also  snide, at  best, to
accuse Chomsky of "breaking  with his usual pattern" in  praising "the
traditions of American support for civil liberty." He has, as a matter
of record, upheld these traditions more staunchly than most-- speaking
up  for the  right of  extremist academics  like [Walter]  Rostow, for
example, at a time during the Vietnam  War when some campuses were too
turbulent  to accommodate them. It  is irrelevant, at  least, to do as
Fresco  also does and  mention Voltaire's anti-Semitism.  (As absurd a
suggestion,  in the  circumstances