SOURCE: "Chomsky and the Neo-Nazis," in Quadrant, Vol. XXV, No. 10, October, 1981, pp. 8-14.

Rubenstein is an American historian and educator. In the following essay, he discusses his correspondence with Noam Chomsky regarding the latter's defense of Robert Faurisson.

The strange nexus between Noam Chomsky, the eminent linguist, and Robert Faurisson, an Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Lyon in France, who believes, in his own words that "there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz or anywhere else in wartime Europe," and who has described the Holocaust as "a historic lie", an "abominable lie", and a "politico-financial swindle" is by now fairly well known—at least in France and America, where it has received wide publicity in journals like the New York Times, New Republic and Le Monde. It is perhaps less well known in Australia, where, so far as I am aware, only one mainstream publication...