Hail, Spode
H. D. Miller, in his great new blog Travelling Shoes, has turned up this love letter to Noam Chomsky ("honoured patron of the revisionist movement") posted on a website dedicated to celebrating the life and work of British Fascist Oswald Mosley.
It's Chomsky's cagey flirtation with the Holocaust denial movement that earns him a place amongst such luminaries as Ezra Pound, Heidegger, Spengler, and assorted British Blackshirts, past and present.
"He reserves his vitriol," writes an anonymous member of the 'Friends of Oswald Mosley' society "for the state of Israel and the Zionists squirm helplessly because Chomsky is too respected as an academic, a prolific writer and a Jew... 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."
Of course, Chomsky claims that his defense of holocaust "revisionists" arises solely out of concern for Free Speech. Yet the modern-day Mosley-ites appear to believe that anyone, Left or Right, who can make Jews "squirm helplessly" on any basis is a kindred spirit, or a useful ally, at any rate. And they have a point.
Posted by Dr. Frank at April 14, 2002 10:35 AM | TrackBack